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. · Shared by 132, including philipptemmel, Bill Johnston, James Young, Oscar MacDonald, Matt, ilaria defilippo, Roger Friedensen, Oliver Schöndorfer 🇺🇦, David Hellmann, Jakub Ferenc, Charles Baldwin, Niklaus Gerber, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, Mark Kaigwa
Oliver Schöndorfer 🇺🇦
Font Matrix – See & Pair Typefaces Like Never Before
Oliver Schöndorfer 🇺🇦
10 min read · May 25th · The Font Matrix is a different way of seeing typefaces. It can help you find better font pairs faster, and makes it more obvious to describe the differences between typefaces, regardless of sans or… · Shared by 262, including Stef Walter, David Gates, Abel Caballero Díaz, CSS Weekly, David Hellmann, Oliver Raduner
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… · Shared by 170, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, erik spiekermann, Porsha, Veerle Pieters
Nielsen Norman Group
The Dos and Don’ts of Pairing Typefaces
Nielsen Norman Group
5 min read · Jun 20th · When choosing typography to use in designs, narrow down your options by understanding the most common classifications, looking for typefaces with multiple variations and distinct characters, and… · Shared by 162, including Mike Taylor, CSS Weekly
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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… · Shared by 74, including Mark Kaigwa, Helmi, Bryan Onel, Leslie D, Florian Hanke 🍎, vedi.eth {313}, Stowe Boyd, Bilal Aslam, Stephan Pinheiro, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dominik Grolimund, David Luescher
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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… · Shared by 231, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jacob Jarnvall, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ivan Degtyarenko, Brad Brooks, Casey Smith, Marc Wieland, Rodrigo Prior, Will Hoag 🏔‼️, Lailo, Victor Tolosa, Shane_potter, Jonathan Moore, Daniel Fritzsche, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, ilaria defilippo, Dominik Grolimund, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Daniel Williams
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
~16 min read · Jun 3rd · This is the first part of this article, written especially for typeface designers and typographers. See how typefaces work, how to test them, and other broader typographic issues. · Shared by 86, including Katja Evertz
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. · 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. · Shared by 17, including Daniel Behrendt
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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
~15 min read · Jun 12th · In this article, Thomas Bohm explains ways to test typefaces and other typographic issues. Though this article is slightly high-end and academic, fear not. The content will be interesting, especially… · Shared by 65
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 […] · Shared by 289, including Claus Heller 🇺🇦, Oleg Baskov, Gerald Soparkar, Michael Grupe, Victor Tolosa, Stephanie A Kowalski, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Martina Grolimund, Merkstatt, Marc Steffen, Dominik Grolimund, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Andreas Fischler, Mara Averick
van Schneider
The best totally free web fonts & typefaces
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… · Shared by 279, 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 291, including Ziad Shihab, Jason Norwood-Young, Thomas Pleil
Typographica
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2017
Typographica
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... · Shared by 44, including Benoit Pontbriand, Brad Brooks, Charles Baldwin, Connecticut SEO, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali
Datawrapper
Which fonts to use for your charts and tables
Datawrapper
20+ min read · Sep 12th · Sans-serif or serif typefaces? Lining or oldstyle figures? Narrow or wide? With lots of examples, we explain which fonts work best for data visualizations. · Shared by 222, including Mirko Lorenz, Stef Walter, Mark Kaigwa, Lisa Charlotte Muth, Nathan Yau
zellwk.com
How to choose and pair typefaces
zellwk.com
6 min read · From 2017 ·
The act of choosing two typefaces is probably the first (and often mo
· Shared by 38, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Davy De Pauw, Niklaus Gerber, Mark Kaigwa, Oleg Baskov
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… · Shared by 160, including ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Nicolas Dengler, Davo ⚡, Philippe Gauvin, Samuel Tonini, Michael Weibel, van Schneider, W, mitimiti, designshard, Luca Hammer, Minnix, René Clausen Nielsen, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Cameron Yick, Bryan Onel, Daniel Williams, Dominik Grolimund, Andreas Spiegler, Courtney Bolton ★
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. · Shared by 30, including KOstas, Esther Schindler, Fabricio Teixeira, Massimo Banzi
