"Une série d’impressions des caractères disponibles a ensuite servi de point de départ au dessin de caractères numériques, qui a leur tour ont servi de modèles pour des essais de découpe numérique. Les objectifs, à long terme, sont de pouvoir réhabiliter ces caractères et d’en produire de nouveaux, et de faire vivre l’atelier d’impression typographique." downloadable "tels quels" and licensed with OFL
ttf fonts with wood type distressing and sort of an "overexposed microfiche" look?
"a selection of reference books showcasing techniques and designs for embroidering and weaving letters" some truly gorgeous stuff in here
"Doug Clouse explores connections between typography and tectonic crafts, those that build by the accumulation of similar units. Typewriter art, food cart signs, letterpress printing, type design, needle work, weaving, bricklaying, and mosaics reveal similar creative impulses that are not well understood."
"System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS" more than sufficient for like 95% of my needs
"[D]o you want to make typographic graphics and animations with code? This is a good & idiosyncratic way to do that." this is tremendous, wow!!
"an open-source, privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet" with "a zero-tracking and no-logging policy" though it makes me nervous that there is no like... explanation of why they're doing this, and how they're paying for it, and how long it will last!
an "archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives", usefully opinionated, includes some interesting type specimen books
gorgeous typeface inspired by victorian houseplants
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"... 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"
"Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability." looks good too imo
love this
love these chunky guys
"Karrik is an open source typeface designed by Jean-Baptiste Morizot and Lucas Le Bihan. This font was originally commissioned by ‘Cercle’ magazine for their 2020 issue—dedicated to the topic of ghosts. The design started in March 2019 and ended in October of the same year. [...] Karrik is rooted in vernacular typography. The weight disadjustments, the lack of optical corrections, the uneven width of the letters are some of the features of early sans serif typefaces that inspired us..." (hey plus it's open source!)
handy tool for analyzing your fonts!
nice bold sans serif with variable features
lovely ofl serif with many features
originally read this as "Communist Portland"
"A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts"
"OpenMoji is an open source project of 53 students and 2 professors of the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and external contributors" (CC BY-SA 4.0)
"Create a unique bitfont from a vast space of glyphs generated by a neural network." yacht/counterpoint
gpt-2 on svg for generated emoji and letterforms
a "talk about the history and environment of Hershey’s creation, and touch on the current state of resurrection."
"there are no consistent right answers, everything is way more important than you think, and everything affects everything else"
