Our written world is made from little dots: little dots of ink from a printer; phosphors or pixels on a screen; blackened thermal paper on a sales receipt. MD Thermochrome is a typeface designed around little dots. It’s not a faithful mimicry of any single printing technique, but an allusion to several — the coarse grid of dot-matrix printers, the visible scanlines of CRT terminal fonts, the varying dot size of over- and under-inked documents from any number of technologies. Built on a consistent (but not quite square) grid, Thermochrome features five discrete italic angles (Upright, Italic, Inclined, Retalic, Reclined), eight weights, and over 100 icons and symbols.
Pure CSS halftone patterns: dots, lines, circles
A project overdue. As an 80's/90's kid, I was obsessed with printing technology - and especially halftone patterns. I've long theorized that these pat
mg¹² | atipo foundry
an independent digital typeface foundry and graphic design studio
propublica/weepeople
A typeface of people sillhouettes, to make it easy to build web graphics featuring little people instead of dots.
StateFace
A font you can use in your web apps when you want tiny state shapes as a design element.
Megazoid
The type foundry of David Jonathan Ross (DJR), home of the Font of the Month Club. Making fonts such as Fit, Forma DJR, Gimlet, Manicotti, Input, Turnip, Condor, Trilby, Fern, and Output.
alcyone | atipo foundry
an independent digital typeface foundry and graphic design studio
Yep! Type Foundry — Screen-first typefaces with honest pricing and friendly licensing: Innovator Grotesk
Innovator Grotesk — a neo-grotesque variable font for UI, 9 weights with 12° oblique, calibrated vertical metrics for buttons and labels, 250+ Latin-script languages.
The Geometry of Type
The Geometry of Type explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. Characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability. Sidebar information lists the designer and foundry, the year of release and the different weights and styles available, while feature boxes explain the origins and best uses for each typeface, such as whether it is suitable for running text or as a display font for headlines. To help the reader spot each typeface in the wider world, the full character set is shown, and the best letters for identification are highlighted.
"Jelly text (Variable Font Physics)" by mike-at-redspace codepen.io/mike-at-redspace/pen/JoRPvpy (Feels like you could recreate some of the great design at follow.art with variable fonts!)
Esoteric Fonts
Arbitrary code can run inside a font, what was a power given to compute the complex layout of characters, can be repurposed for esoteric and even practical purposes. This collection reflects the esoteric fonts people have created and the ways to make them.
propublica/weepeople
StateFace
Hexagone · eieio.games
Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
Shader Color
I made a typeface, it's called Flexflex 🔠 I've been working on this project on-and-off for many months. Very happy to finally release it…
