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.
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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
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…
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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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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
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practice.typekit.com
Selecting typefaces for body text
practice.typekit.com
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