Articles in “Fonts”
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Wakamai Fondue
Great tool for technical typograhpic devtooling in the browser in case you’re at the stage where you haven’t committed to using a certain font, or would like to get to know it’s ins & outs Read Full Article
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Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
This is a deep-dive on text rendering — shaping, rasterization, and the challenges of optimizing for performance without sacrificing quality. Read Full Article
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Microsoft open sourcing Fluent Emoji
Why we’re excited to freely share our emoji for you to remix… Read Full Article
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Gujarati Type Foundry
An exceptional type foundry book from Gujarat, India. 1940. In full here. Read Full Article
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Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font
Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining… Read Full Article
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Calibri: the font that avoided cult status
Despite being once a Microsoft default, how did it avoid fame or infamy? Read Full Article
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Quentin Tarantino Fonts: Exploring the Mastermind
Reviewing all Quentin Tarantino movie fonts, appeared in the opening credits: from Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Read Full Article
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The joy of Variable Fonts: getting started on the Frontend
Get set up with variable fonts on the frontend: properly load them, deal with settings, look at ‘gotchas’ and more! Read Full Article
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Visualizing SF Font variations
I recently watched Apple’s WWDC2022 video “Meet the expanded San Francisco font family”. In it, Vincenzo talks about the design of Apple’s new San Francisco font families and how you can use these new variations in your designs to help provide emphasis, c… Read Full Article
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Spacing around headings
Typographic Review of Hugo’s blog. We dive into the spacing around headings, talk about font sizes, how to style captions, and I adore his marginalia and favicon. Read Full Article