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Citywide – Jason Santa Maria
A fun new font from Jason:
Citywide is a sans serif family inspired by mid-1900s bus and train destination roll signs.
Some of the best free fonts | Clearleft
If you start with a high-quality, legible, free typeface and experiment with size, weight, colour, line height, and (subtle) letter spacing, you might find these free options will get you further than you’d think. These are professional fonts crafted and maintained by experts and they can help your content land the way it deserves to.
Marbla
A fun variable font with three axes: inktrap, balloon, and curve.
Monaspace
Five lovely monospaced variable fonts.
Wilco Loft Sans – SimpleBits®
How cool is this‽ Dan made a font for Wilco!
Typography Manual by Mike Mai
A short list of opinions on typography. I don’t necessarily agree with all of it, but it’s all fairly sensible advice.
Mona Sans & Hubot Sans
Two new lovely open source variable fonts from Github.
Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.
A whole lotta nice fonts—most of them variable fonts—from Indian Type Foundry.
Bunny Fonts | Explore Faster & GDPR friendly Fonts
A drop-in replacement for Google Fonts without the tracking …but really, you should be self-hosting your font files.
Bjørn Karmann › Occlusion Grotesque
A typeface co-designed with a tree over the course of five years.
Yes, a tree.
Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually.
What serif typeface would go well with Proxima Nova?
Mark Simonson goes into the details of his lovely new typeface Proxima Sera.
Roboto … But Make It Flex - Material Design
This version of Roboto from Font Bureau is a very variable font indeed.
February’s Font of the Month: Warbler Text | David Jonathan Ross
A lovely font based on the Bulmer typeface.
Manrope – free sans-serif variable font
This font is a crossover of different font types: it is semi-condensed, semi-rounded, semi-geometric, semi-din, semi-grotesque. It employs minimal stoke thickness variations and a semi-closed aperture.
Seb Lester’s Favorite Fonts
Seb picks his top ten typefaces inspired by calligraphy.
MD Nichrome by Mass-Driver
Marvin has some competition! Here’s another beautiful sci-fi variable font:
MD Nichrome is a display typeface based on the typography of paperback science fiction from the 70s and early 80s.
Sans Bullshit Sans — Leveraging the synergy of ligatures
As part of my content buddying process, I am henceforth going to typeset all drafts in this font. I just tested it with this sentence:
We can leverage the synergy of a rich immersive user paradigm shift.
Our Favourite Uses of Typography in Watches
The typography of horology.