SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

Tagged with ”fonts”

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22Sep2024

Free Faces

This web­site is a curat­ed col­lec­tion of type­faces that are avail­able under a vari­ety of free licences some­where on the inter­webs.

11Apr2024

Scribo by Underware

The goal in cre­at­ing Scri­bo was not only to cap­ture the action of writ­ing with­in a dig­i­tal font file, but also to cre­ate the most intel­li­gent hand­writ­ing font we could imag­ine.

11Apr2024

Primarium

Pri­mar­i­um is a pio­neer­ing edu­ca­tion­al project by Type­To­geth­er which stud­ied the meth­ods of Latin script-based hand­writ­ing instruc­tion for pri­ma­ry school chil­dren, span­ning five con­ti­nents and about one-quar­ter of the world.

14Dec2023

Modern Font Stacks

Sys­tem font stack CSS orga­nized by type­face clas­si­fi­ca­tion for every mod­ern OS. The fastest fonts avail­able. No down­load­ing, no lay­out shifts, no flash­es — just instant ren­ders.

10Nov2023

Wilco Loft Sans – SimpleBits

We had the hon­or of work­ing with the team at Wilco to cre­ate a unique type­face for the band. Inspired by an icon­ic GUI­TAR” sign hang­ing in The Loft (the band’s Chica­go record­ing stu­dio). Wilco Loft Sans is an all-caps, high con­trast sans serif. We took those hand­ful of let­ters found on the sign blow molds and expand­ed

13Jan2023

Fluid Typography Calculator

Cal­cu­lat­ing a flu­id font size can be tricky. This is the tool I use to make pre­cise flu­id typog­ra­phy with the clamp CSS func­tion.

17Nov2022

Work Sans - Google Fonts

Work Sans is a type­face fam­i­ly based loose­ly on ear­ly Grotesques, such as those by Stephen­son Blake, Miller & Richard and Bauer­schen Giesserei. The Reg­u­lar weig

17Nov2022

Figtree - Google Fonts

Figtree is a clean yet friend­ly geo­met­ric sans serif font for usage in web and mobile apps. It’s light-heart­ed and crisp when used for text, yet still retains s

17Nov2022

Public Sans - Google Fonts

Based on Libre Franklin, Pub­lic Sans is a strong, neu­tral type­face for inter­faces, text, and head­ings. It was Devel­oped by the Unit­ed States Web Design Sys­tem.

17Nov2022

DM Sans - Google Fonts

DM Sans is a low-con­trast geo­met­ric sans serif design, intend­ed for use at small­er text sizes. DM Sans sup­ports a Latin Extend­ed glyph set, enabling type­set­ting