“Avory is a gently condensed sans that challenges convention. Inspired by the lettering work of Czech designer Jaroslav Benda, a lesser known treasure of mid-century graphic design. From there it developed into a full-fledged typographic power tool.”
“Almost 30 years after the development of the very popular and widely used slab serif font PMN Caecilia, Peter Matthias Noordzij has expanded his font, adding a sans variant to the extended family.”
For designers of type, creating the characters is only part of the job. Much of the hidden engineering and heavy lifting comes in fine tuning how letters, ligatures, digits, and punctuation work together in combination—and kerning the whitespace between them. Many type designers have favorite words and phrases which they use to assess and stress-test some of the more unusual letter sequences.
“We’re Ben and Jesse, and we make fonts. After collaborating frequently over the past few years, we thought it was about time we teamed up to sell our designs through our own independent type foundry, XYZ Type.”
“Patrick Slack focuses on design influenced by art and technology. To showcase his work we chose to feature a collaboration that speaks volumes. “Fringe Intermission is an exploration of space using the city as medium” writes Slack.”
“The Dubai font was introduced in Twitter posts by the city’s crown prince and Microsoft, whose Office 365 software has the font in Arabic and Latin script.”
“The 2017 survey features new-and-improved questions about your font preferences and purchasing habits. After completing the survey, you will receive a bundle of 9 fonts for free from notable type designers.”
Font selection is one of the most common visual choices designers make—and most fall back on old favorites, or search for a font within categories. By leveraging AI and convolutional neural networks to draw higher-vision pattern recognition, we have created a tool that helps designers understand and see relationships across more than 750 web fonts.
