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72 bookmarks by garrettc
"Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually. The project explores what it means to design with nature and on nature's terms."
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CSS generator for opentype layout and variables
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"A typeface five years in the making, Google Noto spans more than 100 writing systems, 800 languages, and hundreds of thousands of characters."
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A typeface of people silhouettes, to make it easy to build web graphics featuring little people instead of dots.
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"Comic Sans still dominates classrooms with teachers believing it is better for dyslexic students, "Comic Sans still dominates classrooms with teachers believing it is better for dyslexic students, for reading and for modelling handwriting. Jon Severs finds that those benefits are dubious and that so much else we think we know about fonts and readability - even reading itself - is highly problematic . for reading and for modelling handwriting"
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"Dana Library Hand is inspired by a recommended penmanship style for librarians to use when writing out card catalogue cards, and closely resembles the style of penmanship I learned in grade school in northern Vermont in the early 1960s. "
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On the surface, most of an app’s UI is exactly the type it’s set in. That’s why it matters so much. As good as any app can serve as an example, but let’s start with Weather for iOS: apart from the decorative clouds and inevitable icons, its UI is essentially pure text:
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Free alternative fonts to Brandon Grotesque, Harriet and Archer.
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Fascinating look behind the development of a brand.
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An open source font which aids reading for dyslexics.
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Josh Emerson's workflow for developing a custom web asset font file.
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"…a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world."
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Much-needed advice on pairing typeface. I always struggle with this.
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Set of 100+ pictograms available in OpenType format, released under CC license.
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An OFT typeface that includes all frequently used iconographics and symbols on the web.
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The next level from a reset. Bootstraps your design with some introductory classes and styles.
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Flow chart to decide on what font to use for a given purpose. Funny and useful.
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Great piece from H&FJ on how to pick fonts that work well together.
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"Large scale renditions of the typefaces were drawn out with ballpoint pens, allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface."
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Sub-pixel font rendering into images via an OSX ruby script. Gives much better results than Photoshop.
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