Mona Sans & Hubot Sans
Two new lovely open source variable fonts from Github.
Monotype restored the font Walbaum, a 200-year-old serif typeface — Quartzy
The history and restoratin of a neglected typeface, complete with this great explanation of optical sizing:
Nix illustrated the point with an analogy: “Imagine if we all decided that 10-year-old boys would be the optimal human form,” he says. “Rather than having babies, we just shrunk 10-year-old boys to baby size, and enlarge them to the size of a full grown man. That’s kind of what we’re combatting.”
Related links
Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.
A whole lotta nice fonts—most of them variable fonts—from Indian Type Foundry.
Bjørn Karmann › Occlusion Grotesque
A typeface co-designed with a tree over the course of five years.
Yes, a tree.
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.
February’s Font of the Month: Warbler Text | David Jonathan Ross
A lovely font based on the Bulmer typeface.
Our Favourite Uses of Typography in Watches
The typography of horology.
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A web font strategy
How I’m prioritising performance when it comes to typography on The Session.
An nth-letter selector in CSS
The latest installment in the long tradition of calling for this pseudo-element.
Variable fonts
The future of typography is here.
Billboards and Novels by Jon Tan
Liveblogging Jon’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Tweaking navigation sizing
Sometimes a consistent interface doesn’t reflect the reality of usage.