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Re: FontFridge: an enhanced Google Fonts filter
Nice tool. The term "Superellipse" is quite specific. I’d call that filter “Square” or “Squarish” if you want to be more accurate.1 -
Re: Introducing Font Proofer!
Since there have been some recent discussions about type design tools, I thought I’d bump this thread. Font Proofer has improved in many ways since @peternowell announced it here in 2023. There is a …5 -
Re: When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
Love the question too! I haven’t found a typeface example before Florian’s 1881, but there were plenty that arrived later that decade. Other prominent early ones below. All but one of these (Typo) ar…7 -
Re: Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
For anyone, like me, who is an Arabic outsider, I can highly recommend this session: From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type Panels don’t always work well, but this one had such …2 -
Re: Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices
To me, the writing smells very strongly of AI. That doesn’t mean the stories behind it aren’t true, but there’s a lot of repetition of general ideas wrapped around very few specifics. The trouble wit…4
