I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a magnifying glass for any signs of AI” crowd thinks. I don’t give a shit that AI figured out how to produce em dashes before these online troglodytes did. Typing em dashes is not an AGI-complete problem. It’s not that difficult to produce an organic, artisanal, hand-crafted em dash — on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen.
Typography
font-size-adjust Is Useful
matklad.github.io…this is where font-size-adjust comes in. If I specify
font-size-adjust: ex-height 0.5,I ask the browser to scale the font such that the letter “x” is exactly half of the box. This makes the fonts comparable…
Free Faces
freefaces.galleryThis website is a curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences somewhere on the interwebs.
Your World of Text
yourworldoftext.com
Infinite canvas of editable multi-user text
Butterick’s Practical Typography
practicaltypography.comUser Interface Typography
imperavi.comThis book is about how to do good user interface typography, from basic things and principles to building layout and various design elements. The book has hundreds of illustrations that explain every nuance and principle.
Olga Prinku
prinku.com
Text Rendering Hates You
faultlore.comRendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text “perfectly”. It’s all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others.
Comic Mono
dtinth.github.io
Times New Bastard
github.com
It’s Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif.
Fonts In Use
fontsinuse.com
Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and period. Supported by examples contributed by the public, we document and examine graphic design with the goal of improving typographic literacy and appreciation. Designers use our site for project research, type selection and pairing, and discovering new ways to choose and use fonts.
Knit Grotesk
knitgrotesk.com
Knit grotesk is the first type family made especially for hand knitting
Cool website too!