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the-brandidentity.com

Fight's fierce typography-led rebrand

One of Latin America’s biggest production companies realised it was time for a change.

microsoft.design

Kermit: a typeface for kids

Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.

microsoft.design

Comic Sans and the art of imperfection

It’s been dragged, mocked, and meme-ified since the moment it became a household name—and still, it refuses to die.

knitgrotesk.com

NN Knit Grotesk

The first typeface created for hand knitting.

itsnicethat.com

Futuristic typefaces that shift to make new forms

At this Amsterdam-based foundry, things go from readable weights to “decorative extremes” with imaginative methods of integrating motion.

wepresent.wetransfer.com

The type designer celebrating the richness of Arabic script

How type designer and lettering artist Kristyan Sarkis is celebrating the rich diversity and history of Arabic script.

fontsinuse.com

Fonts in use

A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.

generativefonts.xyz

Generative fonts

NaN Glyph Filters is a a collection of procedurally generated display fonts and the codebase that was used to design them.

monotype.com

Report: future typography

A report by Monotype celebrating typography’s progress, and challenging us to to look at the larger cultural forces shaping our time and work.

exat.hottype.co

Exat typeface

Inspired by EXAT 51’s artistic and architectural endeavors, this typeface features clean lines and structural clarity.

linkedin.com

Times New Ramen

While ramen packaging has evolved to fit modern design trends, many brands still stay true to their traditional aesthetics.

oddbird.net

Reimagining fluid typography

For many years, it has been ‘best practice’ to use relative units (especially em and rem) for sizing text. But are we responding to the right inputs?

aresluna.org

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

brailleinstitute.org

Hyperlegible font

A font crafted for low-vision readers, by the Braille Institute.

shapecatcher.com

Shapecatcher: draw the Unicode character you want

Search through a database of characters by simply drawing your character into a box.

youtube.com

Cheetos "other hand" font

The first ever typeface fully designed with the other hand — because the designer's dominant hand was... busy.

type.today

Type manual: units of measurement

Kilometers per hour, kilowatt-hours, degrees, square miles, liquid ounces (and much more).

uclab.fh-potsdam.de

Visual history of the Latin alphabet

Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces.

joshleeb.com

Shaping ligatures in monospace fonts

Shaping is the process of converting text (UTF-8 code points in our case) to a sequence of glyphs with positional information to be rendered.

adventofts.com

Advent of TypeScript

Advent of TypeScript is a month-long event running from December 1 to Christmas, featuring daily TypeScript challenges.