Typography stuff! I can’t help it, it’s a part of me. I bookmark great looking new typefaces (according to me) when I see them released or are just seeing them for the first time. Here’s some!
Roslindale
I think they are kiping this slogan from Caslon and it’s awfully bold to do so. I’m cool with it though because Roslindale looks really nicely complete with tons of options (including a variable version). Just the complete mini package is $200 though so I might have to ask for it for Christmas.
Nudica Mono
The screenshot of a code editor they use is just black and white with only the attributes in bold. I think it looks awesome and I’d like to try coding like that sometime. (But I’d need to write my own syntax highlighting theme of course, this font won’t do that automatically). Nudica just looks weird and classy (like 25% serif??).
Tatsuro
An awesome story behind this very excellent typeface. I feel like I want to make a website with Tatsuro headings, Roslindale body copy, and Nudica code blocks, quotes, and highlights.
Airport
It’s a lot like Helvetica except…
In an interview for Computer Arts, Carter comments: “[I]f you look at it today, you’d think was a rip-off of Helvetica. But we’d never seen Helvetica in 1961 in London, although it had been produced in Switzerland near Basle at the Haas foundry in 1957. Even if we had seen it, and wanted to have it typeset in London, we’d have had to get on a plane and fly to Basle and have it typeset there, because the British typesetting trade was so conservative that typefaces like that were simply unobtainable.”
Damnette 97
Hardcore.
The name, Damnette 97, is a mashup of the words Goddamnit and Lafayette. Goddamnit being the title of ALKALINE TRIO’s first full length studio album, and Lafayette the name of the typeface designed by Gustave F. Schroeder for Central Type Foundry in 1885.
And now, some irresistible hot links.
- A nice new typeface compilation on Creative Boom. I particularly like Peasy, which to me looks like a variation on Whitney (but cheaper!).
- A take on fluid type from Tobias Ahlin Bjerrome, but using utility classes in CSS. The final output in the library looks a little beefy to me but if the project was robust enough I could see it.
- When you’re designing a site that leans into FOUT (Flash of Unstyled Text), which is the performance-priority way to go, that means your users might see text as the fallback then flop over to the “real” font later. If that’s the case, this bookmarklet from Stoyan Stefanov is useful for doing that flopping so you can get the font metrics just right to make that experience as non-jarring as possible.
- A four-part series from Brecht De Ruyte on setting type with modern units and techniques.
