Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy.
We are here to promote in-depth debate about type. Fontstand News includes contributions from many authors. We’re always looking to expand our number of collaborators. Want us to publish your voice?
Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font combination for their next design project—features web fonts in the wild, font recommendations and learning resources.
Flexible Typesetting - Free PDF Download by Tom Brown
Read my book: Flexible Typesetting, for free
You and I are living through the biggest change in graphic design history. New devices, screen sizes, and platforms require us to adapt constantly. It’s exhausting. I wrote Flexible Typesetting to aid your practice, offering new mental models for anchoring fluid, responsive design on key typographic guidelines. And I decided to make it free.
Typocard | minimalistic typo graphics for powerful ideas
Small, minimalistic graphics for powerful ideas in a few words. Typogram is a simple web app to create nice-looking, minimalistic graphics that focus on a short snippet of text for sharing on the web.
Typogram allows you to set optional headers and footers to anchor or attribute a text or quote, and provides some minimal customization options for design style.
Words of Type Events offer a series of lectures and workshops with various topics about typography and typeface design, in English and other languages, hosted on the WoT community.
Monospace fonts are dear to many of us. Some find them more readable, consistent, and beautiful, than their proportional alternatives. Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Or are we hopelessly nostalgic? I’m not sure. But I like them, and that’s why I started experimenting with all-monospace Web.
The assortment of commercially available fonts is in constant flux. Typeface design is inevitably informed by media-specific conditions and the aesthetic discourse of the day.
A lovingly crafted handwriting-style monospace font.
Oh yeah... and it's variable!
Annotation Mono is an idealized handwriting; using letter forms inspired by monospace bitmap fonts, legibility is maximized while retaining a hand-written character.
More complex work with typography is becoming popular in web and web design is becoming more like posters and graphic design.
Obys agency is pleased to share with you some of our principles of working with typography that will help improve your experience.