9 Best Articles in 2022
arun.is
Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
arun.is
7 min read · From 2018 · A look into the rising trend of technology companies creating or commissioning typefaces for their exclusive use.
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I Love Typography
My Favorite Typefaces of 2020 — I Love Typography
I Love Typography
~17 min read · 2021-01-13 · After a decade, ILT's annual Favorite Fonts list is back. In addition to a ten top favorite typefaces, there are now 50 typefaces in the Honorable Mentions list; and a section devoted to my favorite…
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medium.freecodecamp.com
How to choose and pair typefaces
medium.freecodecamp.com
7 min read · From 2017 · The act of choosing two typefaces is probably the first (and often most difficult) task you do when creating a new design. Many people get…
Reader View · Shared by 74, including Mark Kaigwa, Helmi, Bryan Onel, Leslie D, Florian Hanke 🍎, ⚛️ Doodle 9995, Stowe Boyd, Bilal Aslam, Stephan Pinheiro, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dominik Grolimund, David Luescher
medium.com
Designers’ favorite typefaces — Medium
medium.com
4 min read · From 2016 · Nothing stirs up a more impassioned debate with designers than asking them to choose their favorite typeface. So this week, we forced a…
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UX Collective
Uniwidth typefaces for interface design
UX Collective
~13 min read · 2021-01-29 · Uniwidth typefaces have great potential for the use in interactive interfaces. This is a short compilation of some available typefaces.
Reader View · Shared by 62, including Rifki Caesar Novaldin, Stu Collett
letterformarchive.org
Typefaces Inspired by the Bauhaus
letterformarchive.org
7 min read · May 5th · From Futura to ITC Bauhaus, our survey of Bauhaus type continues with a look at typefaces that adopted the school’s simplified, geometric ideals.
Reader View · Shared by 17, including Daniel Behrendt
TNW
The psychology of Web design: How colors, typefaces and spacing affect your mood
TNW
8 min read · From 2017 · A great web design is so much more than just delivering content and making it look good. When visitors come to your site, they produce a set of feelings about your website and your organization. The type of feelings they produce – positive or negative – are entirely in your hands and should not be […]
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Tobias van Schneider
The best totally free web fonts & typefaces
Tobias van Schneider
4 min read · From 2020 · Quality, free web fonts are difficult to come by these days. The best place I could think to find them: Twitter. Beautiful typefaces are usually an investment, but that doesn't mean you can't find…
Reader View · Shared by 278, including Brett Errington, Michael Musgrove, Rick Powell, Arne Keuning, tcherno, Victor Lee, Chris Heilmann, Manas, Chris Messina, Niklaus Gerber, José Rodrigues, René Stalder, Marius Bleuer, Beni Buess
It's Nice That
“Think LOL but more obscure”; Pentagram’s Michael Bierut designs The FBI Guide to Internet Slang
It's Nice That
1 min read · Mar 10th · Also featuring two custom typefaces from Matt Willey, the project is based on an official 83-page glossary put together by the FBI to help decipher the most obscure social media chatter imaginable.
Shared by 289, including Ziad Shihab, Jason Norwood-Young, Thomas Pleil
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letterformarchive.org
Typefaces Inspired by the Bauhaus
letterformarchive.org
7 min read · May 5th · From Futura to ITC Bauhaus, our survey of Bauhaus type continues with a look at typefaces that adopted the school’s simplified, geometric ideals.
Reader View · Shared by 17, including Daniel Behrendt
I Love Typography
I love Typography (ILT)
I Love Typography
3 min read · Apr 6th · There is always room for exploration along the intersecting lines of different typographic styles. Layfort takes its inspiration from Art Deco typefaces and crosses that with a dash of industrial…
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Our Favorite Typefaces of 2017
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2 min read · From 2018 · Welcome to our twelfth annual celebration of new type design. These are not necessarily the “best” typefaces, nor the most popular or top-selling (the big retailers already have that covered). What can be said is that each of these 2017 releases inspired at least one admirer among our distinguished group...
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hellohappy.org
Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory
hellohappy.org
4 min read · From 2013 · Lucius Annaeus Seneca60 AD Book I. Among the numerous faults of those who pass their lives recklessly and without due reflexion, my good friend Liberalis, I should say that there is hardly any one so…
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How to choose and pair typefaces
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6 min read · From 2017 ·
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medium.com
The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces
medium.com
~12 min read · From 2017 · An attempt to building a font database with opentype.js
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Fast Company
Who was Garamond, anyway? The history behind 5 classic typefaces
Fast Company
5 min read · From 2019 · The author of a new dictionary of typefaces explains the origins of some of the best-known type–and their lesser-known namesakes.
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blog.8faces.com
Typographer’s typefaces The 25 most admired...
blog.8faces.com
7 min read · From 2015 · Typographer’s typefaces The 25 most admired typefaces by typographers, type designers and letterers. Selecting the right typeface makes all the difference to effective design and communication. But...
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WIRED
Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community
WIRED
2 min read · From 2020 · Typefaces that be freely used and modified give others a chance to hone their craft—and share valuable feedback.
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rsms.me
The Inter UI font family
rsms.me
5 min read · From 2017 · Inter UI is a new typeface optimized for computer user interfaces
Reader View · Shared by 275, including Stéphanie Walter, Inkbot Design, Adrian Roselli 🗯, Kunal Bhatia, Jane Manchun Wong, Mike Taylor, Chris Coyier, ツ, Mark Kaigwa, zeldman, Guillermo Rauch, Fabricio Teixeira, jz, Chris Messina, Helmi, Thomas “🐈🔭🕹” Fuchs, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Steve Schoger, Elijah Manor, MINIMALISSIMO
practice.typekit.com
Selecting typefaces for body text
practice.typekit.com
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