Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters: Advances in Derp Learning
A genuinely interesting (and droll) deep dive into derp learning …for typography!
Link tags: letterforms
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Jongert
Nick demonstrates the responsive power of variable fonts by recreating a lovely design from Jacob Jongert.
Grab that browser window and get squishin’!
Monotype restored the font Walbaum, a 200-year-old serif typeface — Quartzy
The history and restoratin of a neglected typeface, complete with this great explanation of optical sizing:
Nix illustrated the point with an analogy: “Imagine if we all decided that 10-year-old boys would be the optimal human form,” he says. “Rather than having babies, we just shrunk 10-year-old boys to baby size, and enlarge them to the size of a full grown man. That’s kind of what we’re combatting.”
Berlin Typography – Text and the City // Buchstaben und die Stadt
A blog dedicated to documenting the letterforms on display in Berlin.
Legibility App
A handy tool for testing the legibility of different typefaces under all sorts of conditions.
Typography for User Interfaces | Viljami Salminen
The history and physiology of text on screen. You can also see the slides from the talk that prompted this article.