A recreation of the bitmap version of the Chicago typeface originally designed by Susan Kare for Apple in 1984.

Matthew Butterick: They contradict Unicode. Unicode is a standardized system—used by all contemporary fonts—that identifies each character uniquely. This way, software programs don’t have to worry that things like the fi ligature might be stashed in some special place in the font. Instead, Unicode designates a unique name and number for each character, known as […]

A web typography learning game

Vox: In its first era of popularity, it was all pop and pulp, but now it seems reserved for the task of adding just the slightest bit of a smirk to extremely straight-faced endeavors: elegant magazines, important books, experimental theater, and $80 ceramic pipes. I didn’t realise how popular this typeface was until I stumbled […]

Font Editing for Everyone

The Design Team: After reading extensively on typography, and seeing what works (IRL), I developed the following list of guidelines that have consistently helped me with typographic design. Hopefully, you can apply these tips to start improving the your own typographic design process — without turning you into a snob. Start by choosing a typeface for your […]

Typekit: Just minutes ago, at the ATypI conference in Warsaw, the world was introduced to a new kind of font: a variable font. Jointly developed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe, a variable font is, as John Hudson put it, “a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts”. Imagine a single font file gaining […]

Colophon Fundry: Most monospaced typefaces are dictated by text-intensive usage at very small point sizes, but we were captivated by the possibility of a monospace writ large, as it is in our collective mind’s eye: a few words projected on a large display, rendered in overly simplified, appealingly vague pieces of warning or counsel that […]

Google Fonts ha un nuovo design, che dà più risalto i singoli font e aiuta a scegliere e comparare le 804 famiglie tipografiche che il servizio offre.

Scrivere una frase TUTTA IN MAIUSCOLO, CON L’INTENTO DI ENFATIZZARLA, può in realtà rivelarsi controproducente, risultando meno leggibile: Because we see words as shapes, big rectangular blocks of all caps take us much longer to process. In an emergency, that extra time to decipher an urgent message may come at a cost. […] So why […]

Type Burrito spiega, semplicemente, per chi non ne capisce molto e si sente intimidito, come combinare e scegliere i font: If you have two fonts that work together but still seem a little too similar, try changing the size or weight to add some variety. Need more unity? The easiest place to start is to look at […]

Jonathan Hoefler: About two years ago, H&Co Senior Designer Andy Clymer proposed that we design a monospace typeface. Monospace (or “fixed-width”) typefaces have a unique place in the culture: their most famous ancestor is the typewriter, and they remain the style that designers reach for when they want to remind readers about the author behind […]

Adobe ha rilasciato un nuovo font, Acumin, studiato apposta per diventare l’Helvetica degli ebook: When Robert Slimbach saw the movie Helvetica, his thought was: but it’s all signage! There was no talk about text. He reflected that Helvetica had always been a display typeface, never really designed for text, but that it had become so popular […]

Akinori Machino: Helvetica, which was replaced by San Francisco fonts, was created in Switzerland in 1957, when there were no digital devices. Helvetica is widely used by many companies as the corporate type even now, and no doubt it will be used for the future as a great classic font. San Francisco, on the other […]

John Djameson ha scritto una utilissima guida su come distanziare i caratteri. Spesso, nell’impostare la tipografia di un testo sul web la proprietà letter-spacing viene dimenticata e ignorata — forse perché richiede un po’ di abilità e conoscenza, per evitare pasticci. Djameson la fa molto breve: è cosa buona (in genere) aumentare la distanza fra le lettere in […]