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Welcome to: Visual Typography.
Alert: Full of gifs. #typography#gif#webfonts#freefonts
Type and design nerds! I’m considering commissioning¹ a queer² lettering artist or typographer to set a slogan³ – link me to beautiful work!
(Boosts would be awesome, and feel free to recommend yourself!)
¹ I hope to crowdfund their fee
² My definition is incredibly broad; if the artist self-identifies as queer, that’s all I need
³ Probably in a hand-drawn way rather than using fonts, but I’m open; to be used on t-shirts/stickers
Did you know we offer RSS feeds for nearly any Use category? That means you can track Uses in any format, topic, tag, or set; Uses by a designer; or Uses in a location. Just check the footer on any category page.
Speaking of Google Fonts, though: while we’re still in the midst of the weird-and-wonderful wonky soft serif phase, I am shocked we don’t see more Fraunces. It’s better than most of the others in the genre and deserves far more attention: https://fraunces.undercase.xyz/
There is a lot of conflicting information out there when it comes to the best text to background contrast ratio for optimal accessibility. Generally, higher contrast is better, of course, but for people with dyslexia, a too bright background (e.g. black text on white) can also appear dazzling and thus harder to read.
Do you know of any reliable and “quotable” resources on this topic?
You’d think that in 2024 you’d have an easier way to enter a true minus sign glyph (−) instead of a dash (-) in Linux.
And this isn’t just one for typography geeks either, it’s an accessibility issue.
Imagine you have a minus button in a web form. A screenreader would read it as a dash button unless you used the proper character. (The workaround, of course, is to use aria-label.)
“… the nice thing is how font designs can moonlight as evidence for research — they give us hints about the tools used to create the games, reveal unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated games, and generally provide valuable insight into how things were done at the time.”
Bleisatz am Abend. Heute eine lang gehegte Spielerei mit den Comic-Schriften Duo Licht und der Duo Dunkel von 1953. Ich weiß nicht ob ihr Gestalter, Alfred Finsterer, das so angelegt hat, oder ob es einfach eine natürlich Folge des Schriftentwurfes ist–sie lassen sich wunderbar übereinander drucken. Nice :)