twenty things tagged “typography”
Merchele Sans
Was paying a bill on the State Farm website and wondered what they used. Comes in serif and slab serif as well.
K&R is the One True Indentation Style
Via Wikipedia. I am “not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke” the genesis of other styles. “Haskell Style” has to be a joke (like this masterpiece) and I just pray I don’t encounter it in the wild1 🙏 // Allman while (x === y) { func1(); func2(); } // Hor…
A Terrible Typeface on an Expensive Watch
This is the Patek Philippe 5131. It’s a world-timer with an intricate and lovely, hand-painted cloisonné enamel dial, and is a marvel of engineering and ingenuity from one of the Holy Trinity of watchmaking that will set you back at least $150,000 if you’re lucky1. It also features one of the shitti…
Impossible Typefaces
Macula is an absolutely lovely typeface by Jacques Le Bailly. It reminded me of Impossible Type by Fleta Selmani. I also found out that Eric Demaine has an “Impossible Folding Font”.…
“Penumbra” by Lance Hidy is an absolutely gorgeous (all-caps only) typeface
I mean just look at it 🥰…
Telugu Script Components
Telugu is a phonetic language, written from left to right, with each character representing generally a syllable. There are 52 letters in the Telugu alphabet: 16 Achchulu which denote basic vowel sounds, 36 Hallulu which represent consonants. In addition to these 52 letters, there are several semi…
The Bieber of Comic Sans
From an interview with Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans: Q. What do you think of comic sans’ detractors? A. I think most of them secretly like Comic Sans — or at least wish they had made it. Interesting fact: the main designer at Twitter tweeted that the most server space is used by complaint…
The TeX Family Tree History
LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt. That’s a lot of TeX! This was most helpful, even though MacTeX solves all my problems.…
AxiDraw is a portable ‘Drawing Machine’.
It’s priced at $475 for the basic model and $800 for a deluxe version. The video is very satisfying to watch (I couldn’t have picked better background music.) One could start with a Brachiograph for around $20 (basic Raspberry Pi setup, soldering skills, and assembly required.)…
That ’70s Typeface
Spent a few frustrated hours over the years trying to identify this typeface I’d see on restaurant menus, photocopied class handouts, movie titles (even Indian ones from the early 80s), and a lot of books. I now know what it is and am quite happy the mystery’s resolved. It’s Souvenir! Designed in 19…
Optotypes
Optician Sans is a free optotype 1 based on the Sloan letters2. I had no idea this was a thing. There’s a lot to learn here about the eye charts I see once a year. The earliest chart appears to go all the way back to 1862 (!) Those little "C"s are called Landolt C. The one most optometris…
Dank Typefaces
Was looking try something other than my beloved Operator Mono and came across Dank Mono which claims to be a “rather special coding font.” I love it. Looks like the cooler twin of Inconsolata. I remain quite tickled by how many of my co-workers find the italic variants of monospaced fonts ‘disturbin…
Input
A highly configurable, free-for-private-use typeface…
Inter UI
Inter UI looks beautiful, comes in all sorts of weights, has thousands of glyphs, and is free 💗 (via Arun Venkatesan’s blog.) Source…
Sans Bullshit Sans
Roel Nieskens “leveraged the synergy of ligatures” to create a free typeface called Sans Bullshit Sans. It turns this The value proposition of our agile mindset and scrum methodology is to enable the emergence of disruptive, convergent, crowdsourced platforms that allow our clients to lean in and e…
Programming Typefaces with Ligatures
This project adds ligatures to Operator Mono, my favorite coding typeface 😍 Fira Code is also very beautiful and ships with ligatures…
Line
Line by Stefania Malmsten is 😍…