60 stories tagged typography, newest first.
315 points by davidbarker | 56 comments
TitleArt is a browser-based WordArt-style editor with a Windows 9x interface for creating text with classic shapes, colors, shadows, and 3-D effects.
187 points by firloop | 24 comments
A blog post on Unsung, a software craft and quality blog, titled "Good type against all odds" about typography done well under constraints.
536 points by noriax86 | 148 comments
GitHub repository for Nordwand Mono, a compact monospace neo-grotesque font designed for developers, licensed under MIT and OFL-1.1.
388 points by plaguna | 81 comments
Landing page for Furifont, a Japanese font that renders furigana readings above kanji via ligatures, with downloads and a customization builder.
699 points by otobrglez | 286 comments
Homepage of Iosevka, an open-source sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font family, with download, customization, repository, and specimen links.
50 points by droidjj | 31 comments
It's Nice That feature in which designer David Rudnick discusses the difficult process of creating the Rocastle typeface for Arsenal football club.
217 points by Curiositry | 76 comments
Personal blog post recounting finding an error in Donald Knuth's book "Computer Modern Typefaces" and receiving his famous reward check twenty years ago.
45 points by eustoria | 10 comments
Cube Type is a web playground that renders typed text as letters on isometric 3D cubes, with composition, style, and sharing options.
380 points by sohkamyung | 62 comments
GitHub repository for a photo-based reconstruction of Commodore 64 keycap lettering, providing desktop fonts, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
5 points by pepys | 0 comments
A Public Domain Review essay by Florence Hazrat on Philip Sidney's heavy use of parentheses, including in his romance Arcadia, which ends mid-parenthesis.
24 points by ampdot | 10 comments
An X post showing a prototype font in which every LLM token is rendered at equal width, illustrating how models see text and their quirks.
80 points by z-mach9 | 16 comments
A web tool and demo that compiles a font plus an LLM tokenizer into a token-space font where every token renders at equal width.
836 points by MitPitt | 121 comments
Bastardica is a web tool that mixes two fonts by replacing every Nth glyph using OpenType ligatures, running Python client-side via WASM.
1133 points by zdw | 326 comments
A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog about the difficulties of typesetting text in monospace and choosing words carefully to fit it.
448 points by GavinAnderegg | 180 comments
Landing page introducing Nebula Sans, a humanist sans-serif typeface designed for legibility in digital and print applications.
324 points by dcminter | 51 comments
Marcin Wichary's long illustrated essay (6,100 words, 600 photos) about a ubiquitous engraving font seen throughout Manhattan.
409 points by ExMachina73 | 198 comments
A Rands in Repose essay praising the typography of Blade Runner's title cards, set in Goudy Oldstyle, and reflecting on appreciating type design.
689 points by ray__ | 153 comments
Mixfont experiment page for Decoy Font, a TTF font where each letter contains a decoy glyph intended to hide typed text from AI readers.
376 points by aleda145 | 43 comments
Design process page telling the story of Shantell Sans, a handwriting-inspired marker-style typeface, with download links.
402 points by zdw | 97 comments
A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog highlighting several modern pixel fonts, starting with Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono, a remake of the VCR OSD Mono font.
463 points by _vaporwave_ | 59 comments
A Typeset in the Future blog post explaining typographic techniques that make text look futuristic, drawing on science fiction film and design conventions.
327 points by cheeaun | 41 comments
A blog post explaining how to create a retro multi-stroke text effect in CSS, working around text-stroke accepting only a single value.
781 points by zdw | 151 comments
A personal blog post presenting a 5x5 pixel bitmap font designed for tiny screens such as those used with microcontrollers.
442 points by nvahalik | 223 comments
CodingFont by Typogram is an interactive game that compares coding fonts side by side in a code editor so users can pick their favorite.
359 points by emersonmacro | 63 comments
GitHub repository for Pretext, Cheng Lou's MIT-licensed TypeScript library for measuring and laying out multiline text.
372 points by cokernel_hacker | 73 comments
Blog post explaining that the mysterious Unicode symbol U+237C ⍼ (Angzarr) means azimuth, per a 1950 H. Berthold AG type foundry symbol catalogue.
437 points by rendx | 145 comments
FontCrafter is a free in-browser tool that converts scanned handwriting samples into installable font files like OTF, TTF, and WOFF2.
352 points by todsacerdoti | 108 comments
A personal blog post on using CSS lowercase transforms, swapped em dashes, and deliberate misspellings so the writing won't be mistaken for AI-generated text.
326 points by remywang | 73 comments
Unifoundry's GNU Unifont page offering the bitmap font with glyphs for every printable Unicode BMP code point, plus plane charts and downloads.
359 points by italophil | 615 comments
Reuters article reporting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to switch from Calibri back to Times New Roman; captured page shows a captcha.
1086 points by ChrisArchitect | 130 comments
Emily Sneddon's essay on Fran Sans, a typeface inspired by the segmented destination displays on San Francisco Muni light rail trains.
381 points by birdculture | 169 comments
GitHub repository for Myna, a monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming languages, with OTF and FontForge source files.
670 points by loughnane | 290 comments
TheCascade article showing the minimal set of CSS rules needed to make a plain web page look decent without over-engineering.
562 points by fibo | 75 comments
Brutalita is a browser-based experimental font and editor that lets users create, edit, and download their own monospace-style font.
530 points by JdeBP | 113 comments
Page presenting Two Slice, a 2-pixel-tall font with upper and lowercase variants, a live text box for trying it, and a CC BY-SA download.
367 points by smartmic | 64 comments
Alternative Layout System is a site offering typographic layout scripts like Same Sizer and Wiggle Out that use variable fonts to fit words and lines in unconventional ways.
329 points by nmcfarl | 158 comments
Microsoft Design article introducing Kermit, a typeface designed to help children learn to read and write.
324 points by todsacerdoti | 140 comments
WebKit blog post announcing text-wrap: pretty support in Safari Technology Preview and comparing it with balance and other text-wrap values.
711 points by robinhouston | 104 comments
Marcin Wichary's long illustrated essay (6,100 words, 600 photos) about a ubiquitous font seen across Manhattan.
382 points by rootforce | 101 comments
Download page for Comic Mono, a legible monospace font forked from Shannon Miwa's Comic Shanns, with TTF downloads and a list of differences.
719 points by fanf2 | 197 comments
Braille Institute page offering the free Atkinson Hyperlegible font, designed to improve readability for people with low vision.
545 points by mrunseen | 135 comments
The Monospace Web is a minimalist web design exploration by Oskar Wickström that uses monospace fonts and a character grid layout, released under the MIT license.
586 points by microflash | 123 comments
A Glyph Drawing Club blog post describing a font that performs syntax highlighting on its own using OpenType color font features.
332 points by yankcrime | 89 comments
Landing page for Server Mono, a free monospaced typeface under the SIL Open Font License inspired by typewriters, SF Mono, and command-line interfaces.
456 points by azhenley | 95 comments
Blog post by Chevy Ray describing how he used Rust tooling to create a megapack of 175 pixel fonts.
647 points by drones | 83 comments
A Typeset in the Future blog post analyzing the typography and graphic design used in Pixar's film WALL·E.
693 points by Bluestein | 85 comments
Interactive Tetris Font by Erik and Martin Demaine that renders entered text as animated falling Tetris pieces, with GIF and SVG download options.
373 points by lsferreira42 | 120 comments
GitHub repository for nanofont3x4, a tiny readable 3x4 pixel bitmap font with lowercase letters covering all ASCII symbols.
611 points by pauloxnet | 127 comments
Homepage of Standard Ebooks, a volunteer project producing free, carefully formatted public-domain ebooks.
480 points by davidbarker | 148 comments
Landing page for Monaspace, GitHub Next's superfamily of monospaced fonts for code, with download and learn-more links.
393 points by OliverGilan | 83 comments
Homepage for B612, an open source, highly legible font family designed and tested for aircraft cockpit screens.
369 points by t0m44c | 264 comments
Compart reference page for the Unicode character 𝕏 (U+1D54F, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X), showing its glyph and details.
453 points by _emacsomancer_ | 124 comments
Personal blog post by Lin Yangchen about typesetting a thesis in the 17th-century Fell Types font instead of uniform digital fonts like Caslon and Garamond.
421 points by 2143 | 167 comments
Sweden's official brand guidelines page on typography, featuring the national typeface Sweden Sans.
380 points by g0xA52A2A | 75 comments
A blog post continuing an investigation into the origin of the Unicode character U+237C RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW (⍼).
419 points by nickswalker | 60 comments
GitHub repository with a set of dot matrix fonts styled after TfL's London Underground arrivals boards.
682 points by lolinder | 130 comments
Project page for Comic Mono, a monospace font forked from Shannon Miwa's Comic Shanns, with download links for regular and bold TTF files.
475 points by orhmeh09 | 127 comments
GitHub repository for Times New Bastard, a font that is Times New Roman except every seventh letter is set in a jarring sans serif.
337 points by skogstokig | 165 comments
Product page for a Cantonese font that displays color-coded Jyutping pronunciation and tones above Chinese characters.
580 points by tobr | 86 comments
A personal web page titled "Grid World" with a hand-drawn pixel-style title over a black grid, apparently an essay about grids.