2-pixel high proportional font, sort of readable if you insert leading between lines. #small-is-beautiful #fonts
on 02026-05-266×6 font with only 5×5 data, along with smaller variants. #fonts #small-is-beautiful
on 02026-04-22#Amit has finished his guide to #SDF #fonts #toread
on 02026-03-03"UNSCII", #viznut’s set of bitmapped #Unicode #fonts designed for #semigraphics.
on 02026-01-1422-page #Stroke-Styles #paper #PDF on #skeletonization of #fonts
on 02026-01-1314-minute #demo #video of #SIGGRAPH #paper "StrokeStyles", stroke-based segmentation and stylization of #fonts, starting from the interior and exterior medial axis (#skeletonization) of a glyph outline, producing graffiti, particle systems, and animated glyphs.
on 02026-01-12Steven #Wittens’s #SDF #fonts page where he implemented the Euclidean #Distance-Transform to avoid the #Mapbox #TinySDF wobbliness and pixelation problems. Apparently there’s a separable approach to this: “Like a Fourier Transform, you can apply it to 2D images by applying it horizontally on each row X, then vertically on each column Y (or vice versa).” ...really? Holy shit, you just count up with squared distances and everything works, that’s fucking insane. Then he figures out how to make it work with subpixel #antialiasing: “Here’s how I assembled a “true” Euclidean Subpixel Distance Transform.” #algorithms #toread
on 02026-01-12#FreeType #tutorial on #font-metrics. #fonts
on 02026-01-12Amit Patel on #SDF #fonts pros and cons, with #explorable-explanations, using #msdfgen
on 02026-01-12#PDF of #Detheroc’s #SDF #fonts #dissertation, loading unusably slowly right now. #toread
on 02026-01-12#Detheroc (Viktor Chlumský) did their #dissertation on #SDF #fonts using a median-of-three approach to get sharp corners. #graphics
on 02026-01-12Multichannel #SDF #fonts with sharp corners in the #LambdaCube Font Engine (#Lafonten) using four channels rather than two. #graphics
on 02026-01-12#Qt’s QML Scene Graph renders text using #SDF #fonts with even subpixel #antialiasing, by the simple expedient of “extruding” outline fonts (I think they mean inset/outset). #graphics
on 02026-01-12how #Mapbox uses #SDF #fonts for #maps, including “text halos”, with images of the SDF texture atlases, using 192–255 for “inside” negative SDF values. #graphics
on 02026-01-12the 02007 #SIGGRAPH #PDF #paper by Chris Green at #Valve about #SDF #fonts. Cites a SIGGRAPH ’00 paper by Frisken, Perry, Rockwood, and Jones on adaptively sampled SDFs. #graphics
on 02026-01-12Chenyang “Platy” Hsu compares #Trump’s favored Times New Roman with other #fonts, like Palatino, Caslon, Baskerville, New Century Schoolbook, Frutiger, Univers, Myriad, and of course Calibri. “At this point, it might sound as though the argument is trending toward a defense of the Department’s earlier choice: Calibri. Unfortunately, Calibri is also a poor fit for formal contexts. While seriousness and authority aren’t the exclusive province of serifs, Calibri does little to convey those traits.” #politics #CC BY-NC-ND
on 02025-12-30no actually Morris Benton designed sans-serif #fonts as early as 01902. #history
on 02025-12-23Oh wow, Morris Benton designed sans-serif #fonts as early as 01908! I wonder why McMurtrie’s book didn't mention this; it was very complimentary to Benton, but sans-serif type was conspicuous entirely in its absence.
on 02025-12-22This is the 400dpi scan of American Type Foundry’s 01923 #fonts specimens and catalog by David Armstrong of Sevanti Letterpress.
on 02025-12-22David Armstrong of Sevanti Letterpress also scanned the American Type Foundry’s 01923 specimens and catalog, although only at 400 dpi. With #Goudy #fonts, etc.
on 02025-12-22Barry Schwartz’s Sorts Mill #Goudy. #fonts
on 02025-12-22Site of Barry Schwartz, who created Sorts Mill #Goudy. He has some lovely #ebooks there too, and some other free #fonts, including Fanwood (based on Rudolf Ruzicka’s Fairfield), Goudy Bookletter (a Kennerley), Juvelo (based on Diethelm-Antiqua), and Linden Hill (based on Goudy’s Deepdene).
on 02025-12-22“In 1915, Frederic W. Goudy designed #Goudy Old Style, his twenty-fifth typeface, and his first for American Type Founders. Flexible enough for both text and display, it is one of the most popular typefaces ever produced, frequently used for packaging and advertising. Its recognizable features include the diamond-shaped dots on i, j, and on punctuation marks, the upturned ear of the g, and the [upturned] base of E and L.” #fonts #history
on 02025-12-22Barry Schwartz’s Open-Font-Licensed #Goudy Old Style and Italic #fonts
on 02025-12-22#Franlab #video on using a Leroy lettering set (with #Gorton #fonts) and drafting pens
on 02025-12-21#ebook of Frederic W. Goudy’s Elements of Lettering from 01922. #fonts
on 02025-12-21#history of #fonts and #typography
on 02025-12-21Marcin Wichary, Figma design directory, wrote this #Gorton #fonts page, tracing the current letterforms (more or less) back to 01902! Then it spread to Leroy lettering sets and Wonder Woman comic books and Letraset rubbings... and #Hershey-fonts! It originated at Taylor, Taylor, & Hobson in the UK in 01894, four years before Akzidenz-Grotesk. 6100 words, 600 photos. #history
on 02025-12-21#Gorton #fonts catalog from 01952, used in numerous pantograph engravings all around us all the time. Kindof ugly tho. They apparently licensed the font originally in 01895, long before the fashionability of sans-serif fonts.
on 02025-12-21High-quality #ebook scan (600dpi, decent lighting) of the specimens and catalog of nearly all of the American Type Founders’ company’s #fonts in 01923. Includes many exquisite examples of the art of text layout as well as font design. Includes Caslon, Bodoni, Garamond, Cloister (after Jenson), and some others, as well as #Goudy. By David M. MacMillan and Rollande Krandall (“Circuitous Root”).
on 02025-12-21#ebook “American type design in the twentieth century, with specimens of the outstanding types produced during this period” from 01924, by Douglas C. McMurtrie, about #fonts
on 02025-12-20overview of #fonts with programming #ligatures
on 02025-12-20Matthew Butterick hates #fonts with programming #ligatures
on 02025-12-20popular programming #fonts with programming #ligatures
on 02025-12-20#Unifont #fonts by block, with bitmap images
on 02025-12-14#Unifont plane 0 as a single 4128×4160 BMP image, 256×256 characters, 0.8 megabytes because it’s 1bpp. #fonts
on 02025-12-13Wow, Roboto Flex has even more axes of variation. #fonts #typography
on 02025-12-12Google’s font speciment tester for #GS-Flex exposes the axes of variation as sliders. #fonts #typography
on 02025-12-12Google’s new font Google Sans Flex ("GS Flex") incorporates axes of variation including obliquing, rounded terminals, weight, and width, and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License. #fonts
on 02025-12-12early version of the LibreSSL website used Comic Sans #fonts
on 02025-12-11#history of #Germany #fonts #politics
on 02025-12-11#fonts #history including a lovely (facsimile) specimen of Jenson’s roman
on 02025-12-11The Bormann brief ordering the use of Antiqua rather than Schwabacher “Jewish letters” or Fraktur. #history #fonts #Germany #politics
on 02025-12-11sans-serif #fonts by the #USA government licensed under the SIL Open Font License: “A strong, neutral, principles-driven, open source typeface for text or display”
on 02025-12-11discussion of #Trump #politics switching the #USA State Department back from Calibri to Times New Roman, with an amused comment by Lucas de Groot, whose studio designed Calibri #fonts
on 02025-12-11Cozens’s #fonts #ebook has a section on the #history of #METAFONT and why it didn’t go viral among typographers. Unfortunately it doesn't mention le Romain du Roi or Hershey fonts.
on 02025-11-26Simon Cozens wrote an #ebook on #fonts and layout and typography
on 02025-11-26a #PDF of the standard #PostScript #fonts
on 02025-11-26#TeX #fonts metrics format. #file-format
on 02025-11-26#PDF scan of an early TUGboat introducing the new non-36-bit #TeX #fonts metrics format TFM. #file-format
on 02025-11-26#video on a conference presentation on the “state of libre graphics” including a new “boring” #file-format for #fonts.
on 02025-05-28#PDF scan of the NBS #Hershey-fonts report. #fonts
on 02024-01-12#Hershey-fonts C library for Debian, in particular for Gnuplot and OpenLase. #fonts
on 02024-01-12the #Hershey-fonts #file-format #fonts
on 02024-01-12#R package for dissecting #Hershey-fonts. #fonts
on 02024-01-12Stewart C. Russell’s #TrueType (or at least OpenType) conversion of the #Hershey-fonts. #fonts
on 02024-01-12Stewart C. Russell’s #retrocomputing blog with #NAPLPS, #Hershey-fonts info (#fonts!), embedded #hardware, #speech-synthesis, etc.
on 02024-01-12#source-code by #Detheroc for "msdfgen", which renders #fonts using a multi-channel #SDF to get sharp corners. #graphics
on 02016-08-03