Typography

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?

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.

Bionic Reading® Font. Use the Bionic Reading® Fonts as an end user. Or license the Bionic Reading® Fonts and use them for your business.

A comprehensive database of sans serifs (Grotesk-Schriften) sold in Germany during the 19th century. Many grotesque fonts. Great typefaces.

The letterforms are reversed out against a vertically striped background. In a manner similar to Schaeffer Versalien. The graphic effect is inspired-by/stolen-from Schaefer Versalien, but the letterforms are modified from my found stencil font Arugula.

Discover Nutgame, the versatile Sans Serif font that effortlessly elevates your designs with a captivating 70s retro flair. Norko: A Sharp-Geometric Sans Serif with a Cinematic Twist Norko, a YouWorkForThem Exclusive, is a geometric sans serif with a distinctive twist. It introduces subtle flared terminals that add personality to its sharp, structured form. This unique detail makes it ideal for bold applications like movie titles, social media graphics, and editorial headlines where a modern voice with character is needed.

TypeTrials is a tool designed for testing variable fonts and much more! Powered by Pangram Pangram Foundry

Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy.

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.

List of the best coding fonts with live preview & themes 😍 https://devfonts.gafi.dev/ by @imGaafar

Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.

The web's most comprehensive guide to American punctuation.

Prefere is an edgy display serif typeface ready to raise some eyebrows. The variable serif font family comes in 5 weights and corresponding italics, meant for big-sizes: posters, headlines, websites, and so on — you know the drill.

Open source variable fonts

This research rethinks paragraph formatting, inspired by techniques from Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts to challenge conventional layouts. Funded by the Leenaards Foundation and supported by Adobe’s plugin tools, the project led to the “Alternative Layout System” plugin, now available for free download on the website. A publication showcasing designers’ experiments with these scripts is also accessible on the website’s “Publication”

WiseType is an independent digital type foundry run by Jacob Wise.

Javascript and CSS to display English Grade 1 Braille in web pages (for sighted people)

Notes on monospace, fonts, ascii, unicode. A collection of TILs and resources. Inspiration for monospace webpage aesthetic:

We are a Type Design foundry focused on making Variable Fonts with the easiest Font Licensing around. Our fonts are up to trend and will fit your daily design needs.

A font like Times New Roman, except each character is 5-10% wider.

Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.

A game to learn how to kern type

Bionic Reading® — You are unique. Bionic Reading® is unique. And that’s a good thing. Because there is only one company and reading method called Bionic Reading®. And we are from Switzerland.

Collletttivo is an Open-Source type foundry and a network of people promoting the practice of type design through mutual exchange and collaboration.

Berkeley Mono™ is a love letter to the golden era of computing. The era that gave rise to a generation of people who celebrated automation and reveled in the joy of computing, when transistors replaced cogs, and machine-readable typefaces were developed, for when humans and machines truly interfaced on an unprecedented scale.

Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.

Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font combination for their next design project—features web fonts in the wild, font recommendations and learning resources.

GT Planar tests the limits of a 90-degree range, combining Retalic, Upright, and Italic styles into one continuous design space. It transitions seamlessly from -45° Retalic to +45° Italic while retaining its integrity. This typeface’s central star is its functionality, no matter the length, size, or angle. Typeface by Dominik Huber, exclusively available at Grilli Type.