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  • The italic design process

Japanese typography

Web Typography

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(sourced from https://css-tricks.com/links-on-typography/). Most of them talks about Latin typography even it is not stated explicitly

by Oliver Schöndorfer. I like the term “functional text” for everything that isn’t display or body type. Look for clearly distinct letters, open shapes, and little contrast. This reminds me of how we have the charmap screen on the Coding Fonts site, but still need to so they all have it.

“ by Lisa Staudinger. “Uniwidth typefaces, on the other hand, are proportionally-spaced typefaces, but every character occupies the same space across different cuts or weights.” So you can change the font-weight but the box the type occupies doesn’t change. Nice for menus! This is a different concept, but it reminds me of the Operator typeface (as opposed to Operator Mono) which “is a natural width family, its characters differing in proportion according to their weight and underlying design.”

by Pedro Mascarenhas. As in, the literal names as opposed to font-weight in CSS where we but are at the mercy of the font. of how dramatically different fonts, say Gilroy Heavy and Avenir Heavy, makes the point.

by Bruno Maag. “Functional accessibility” is another good term. We can create heuristics like specific font-sizes that make for good accessibility, but all nuance is lost there. Good typography involves making type readable and legible. Generally, anyway. I realize typography is a broad world and you might be designing a grungy skateboard that is intentionally neither readable nor legible. But if you do achieve readability and legibility, it has sorts of benefits, like aesthetics and me-taking-you-seriously, but even better: accessibility.

by Nikita Prokopov. “Useless” is maybe strong since it, ya know, controls the font size. But does make the point. I found myself making recently. Across typefaces, an identical font-size can feel dramatically different.

by Tejas Bhatt. A journey from of fonts for a long-form journalism platform down to , then finally lands on . I enjoyed all of the very practical considerations like (yet again) a tall x-height, not-too-heavy, and even price (although the final selection was among the most costly of the bunch).

by James Brocklehurst. You don’t see many “SVG fonts” these days, even though the idea (any SVG can be a character) is ridiculously cool. This one, being all grungy, has far too many vector points to be practical on the web, but that isn’t a big factor for local design software use.

(I guess nobody wanted that byline). I’m so turned off by the sample graphics they chose for the blog post that I can’t bring myself to care, even though this should be super interesting to follow because of the scale of use here. is slightly better.

by Gijo Varghese. I am aware of “Cache Partitioning” (my site can’t use cached fonts from your site, even if they both come from Google) but I could have seen myself trotting out the other two arguments in a discussion about this and it’s interesting to see them debunked here.

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How to pick a Typeface for User Interface and App Design?”
re-shoot most of the screenshots
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Uniwidth typefaces for interface design
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Should we standardize the naming of font weights?”
already have names and numeric values
The image
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About Legibility and Readability”
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Font size is useless; let’s fix it”
this graphic
that same point
“The sans selection”
a huge selection
just a few
Söhne
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Plymouth Press”
“Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft’s next default font”
The tweet
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Why you should Self-Host Google Fonts in 2021″
http://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/khh-typography-01.pdf
https://gaultney.org/jvgtype/italics/italic-design-process/
https://aisforfonts.com/sinograms
Typotheque: Size-Specific Spacing of Fonts by Peter Biľaktypotheque
Know If a Font Sucks | Communication ArtsCommunication Arts
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7 OPTICAL ILLUSIONS THAT EVERY GRAPHIC DESIGNER SHOULD KNOW - Nostalgic Dolphin StudioNostalgic Dolphin Studio
The visual system — a brief guide to anatomy and physiology in the context of typographyMedium
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