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.

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.

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

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

The unedited, writerly feel of monospaced fonts meets the readability and legibility of proportional ones.

Try out the best and newest monospace fonts for code

A highly flexible variable font for design, code, and UI.

The free and healthy typeface for bread and butter use

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.

“A set of rules that will improve your typography 10x” ♥️ By https://mikemai.net

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.

Commit Mono is an anonymous and neutral programming typeface focused on creating a better reading experience.

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.

Combining fonts is one of the trickiest parts of typography. Here’s a guide, combined with an example to help you get font combinations right.

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.