26 Days of Type

Taking a closer look at an award-winning sans serif.

A Clarendon revival for the 21st Century.

The rare slab-serif that doesn’t venture into ‘Wanted’ poster territory.

If someone wants you to make a paragraph “pop”—give them a drop cap!

A high-quality, versatile, unique, and free(!) typeface by Ty Finck.

Sometimes, a classic can’t be beat. But it can be perfected.

But isn’t all typeface design geometric?

The Halyard family comes in three optical sizes, which look great at every size. Hal, yes!

Here was the phone book font, teaching me all about ink traps.

There’s something beautiful about a new thing born out of the technological limitations of its time.

Yet another quirky open-source grotesque.

After researching this topic and reading a dozen or so EULAs, I completely understand why so many organizations large and small default to using Google Fonts.

We’re halfway through the alphabet and only now getting to coding fonts.

“In fonts austere, their love does thrive, Neo-Grotesque, where clean lines strive…”

Not talking about a beer label today, but a type classification for fonts like Garamond.

Combining type is notoriously tricky. It’s worth doing well, though, and not outsourcing to something like AI.

Celebrating 10 years since the historic Majoor × Buivenga collab.

Today we’re digging into variable fonts with an ambitious project with five variable axes.

A variety of typographic expression awaits you with this type classification.

Transitional typefaces were pioneered in the late 18th century and remain popular today for newspaper and book printing.

Italics with no slant? Yes, they are a thing.

Vocal Type was born out of a study of the dismal demographics of the design profession in the U.S.

Where did wood type come from? Who’s using it now? And how to get the look digitally?

A typeface’s x-height refers to the height of its lowercase x. That’s pretty much it.

If you are looking for a robust type family supporting many languages, these are good fonts to keep on your list.

Really? This is how he chose to end it?

Plus limitations on a personal project about typography.