This week in type: Pixelated System font, rejecting a manuscript over type choices, and SOTA videos

joeclark

Medium.com discovers that a “system” font is actually a pixel font called System. “And suddenly I realized I know this font. It was a font I saw on my first PC. It was 1990. That PC was running Windows 3.0. And the font was called… System.”

Use Calibri instead of Arial for your grant application and, whaddya know, it gets rejected. (Some discussion of x-height and equivalent visual size, though not using that vocabulary.)

TypeCon 2015 videos. (Link will eventually fail because this year’s videos are not grouped by set or tag.)

Robin Mientjes

I love the pixel font story. I know I probably find pixel fonts charming for nostalgic reasons, but those screenshots immediately look cool.

(You intend to do these every week? I am all for it.)