Typography

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37441683

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I've released a new typeface/font called Jack of Gears.

https://michaelwmoss.com/typefaces/jack-of-gears

cross-posted from: https://open-source.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/15036

I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.

He's an independent type designer. His site shows properly fleshed out respectable-looking typefaces for respectable-typography costs, but the Font Of The Month Club is the real joy. Whether you're looking for Victorian flavor, elegant text typefaces, design-forward display options, or the latest font feature noodling around (color fonts! color fonts!) there's a fine assortment here to be worth looking through. The Mini license costs are really nice as a reasonable impulse buy for the font-oriented and not too shocking a figure for the non-font-oriented.

I'm not at all a proper Font User -- my website's main typeface is a true abomination I keep only because an SVG filter to replicate the effect sounds hard to get right -- but I love imagining print projects that would merit Polliwog or Klooster Thin.

How did Choc, a quirky calligraphic typeface drawn by a French graphic designer in the 1950s, end up on storefronts everywhere?

Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use, download here!

How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling