👋Hello. I’m a typeface designer now and this was my first project.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
An innovative superfamily of fonts for code. Contribute to githubnext/monaspace development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jane Solomon
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New Work: Fonts for Fetch. 🔡 🐕 🔠
We made a custom type system comprised of a workhorse sans and friendly serif for one of the most popular shopping apps in the USA. Read the full case study here:
lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...
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It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why:
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