Did you know the GitHub Monaspace project includes nearly three quarters of a million glyphs?
We documented the design process in our brand new case study:
lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
The project is Open Source, which means you (yes, YOU!) can download these fonts for free and use them to your heart's content. You can even add to the character set if you so desire. github.com/githubnext/m...
Some of you may know I've been working as a typeface designer at Lettermatic for the last 2.5 years. Here's the case study for Monaspace, our collaboration with @github.com @githubnext.com. I wrote the case study and worked on Cyrillic, Greek, and IPA characters for the 4.1 update.
👋Hello. I’m a typeface designer now and this was my first project.
Great article by @jasonli.bsky.social on digital typefaces made in Hong Kong. This includes Prison Gothic, a project based on road signs around the city made by incarcerated people in the 1970s to 1990s.
Geometric sans fonts like Helvetica are popular, but having letter terminations perfectly aligned can make a font more difficult to read.
For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type.
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Absolutely. Logotypes/display fonts don’t need to prioritize legibility in the way body text does.