Hoefler & Co. covers an advanced typography technique by breaking it down with great examples and simple tips.
Hoefler & Co. has released Operator, their first take on a monospace font, and it looks fantastic. It’s full of character, especially with its playful, but still readable, set of italics. I’ll probably set this up over the weekend in Terminal and Sublime Text.
Input is a flexible system of fonts designed specifically for code by David Jonathan Ross. It offers both monospaced and proportional fonts, all with a large range of widths, weights, and styles for richer code formatting.
Impressive. As far as I know, it’s the first programming font that’s built to serve a mixture of serif and sans-serif as style differentiators within code.
You may not have heard of Jonathan Hoefler or Tobias Frere-Jones but you’ve seen their work. Before their recent split, they collectively ran the most successful and well respected type design studio in the world, creating fonts used by everyone from the Wall Street Journal to the President of the United States.
Font Men, gives a peek behind the curtain into the world of Jonathan and Tobias. Tracking the history of their personal trajectories, sharing the forces that brought them together and giving an exclusive look at the successful empire they built together.
Anyone who has worked with me in the past knows this interview with Ira Glass is one of my all-time favorites. Now pair the audio with beautiful real-world typography? I think I’m in love.
Loving the new font for the Rio 2016 Olympics. Designed by Dalton Maag, it feels international, festive, and flexible.
A new online book which covers the basics of typography with great examples throughout.
cloud.typography
My favorite contemporary type-designers, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, have released their cloud webfont solution today — perhaps the most widely-anticipated web design product for the past several years. With unparalleled typographic control, reasonable pricing, and the greatest digital fonts I’ve worked with, it looks like the wait was worth it. Can’t wait to take this out for a spin.