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Craig Abbott explains how to use math­e­mat­i­cal mod­u­lar scales to style HTML head­ings acces­si­bly and con­sis­tent­ly. The method mul­ti­plies a base font size by a fixed ratio to cre­ate visu­al­ly dis­tinct head­ing lev­els with­out rely­ing on prob­lem­at­ic tech­niques like ital­ics or col­or alone, ensur­ing read­abil­i­ty for peo­ple with dyslex­ia and col­or vision defi­cien­cies.

Font­Base is a free, cross-plat­form font man­ag­er for design­ers offer­ing pro­fes­sion­al fea­tures like col­lec­tions, Open­Type sup­port, Google Fonts inte­gra­tion, and a beau­ti­ful inter­face. It enables font acti­va­tion with­out instal­la­tion, includes a CSS play­ground for web projects, and pro­vides fast per­for­mance with auto­mat­ic updates across Mac, Win­dows, and Lin­ux.

The tool that answers the ques­tion ​“what can my font do?”

A mod­ern, brows­er-based font edi­tor for cre­at­ing and edit­ing fonts.

Beth Ellen is a free, pub­lic domain hand­writ­ten script font by Rob Jelin­s­ki avail­able on dafont​.com. It has been down­loaded over 32,500 times and includes 2 font files in TTF for­mat.

The Spencer­ian script isn’t the most main­stream pen­man­ship style, but this sys­tem of writ­ing is more com­mon­place than you prob­a­bly real­ize! Any­one who’s ever

Spencer­ian script join­ing angles.

Play­write Deutsch­land Schu­laus­gangschrift Guides is a sin­gle-weight font designed to har­mo­nize seam­less­ly with its com­pan­ion.

Pre­mi­um ​‘Ultra’ Hand­writ­ing Font Ser­vice cre­ates ultra-real­is­tic True­Type hand­writ­ing fonts from your nat­ur­al writ­ing using Scrip­tal­iz­er soft­ware with up to 318 char­ac­ter vari­a­tions. Avail­able as cus­tom fonts or pre-made options, com­pat­i­ble with inkjet, laser print­ers, and pen plot­ters, with com­mer­cial licens­ing includ­ed in a sin­gle pay­ment. Sup­plied as True­Type fonts for Windows/​Mac or SVG fonts for pen plot­ters, requir­ing only the free Scrip­tal­iz­er web appli­ca­tion.

Sin­gle line hand­writ­ing font resources and soft­ware

Quan­tum Enter­pris­es — The home of the Jig­saw Doc­tor, pen plot­ter hand­writ­ing fonts, a hand­writ­ing font gen­er­a­tor, round tuits and much more.

About Sin­gle line (open con­tour) True­Type hand­writ­ing fonts for use with the NextDraw and Axidraw pen-plot­ters and oth­er CAD draw­ing and engrav­ing equip­ment.

Stroke Font Stu­dio is a brows­er-based edi­tor for cre­at­ing and mod­i­fy­ing sin­gle-line SVG fonts designed for pen plot­ters, CNC routers, and engravers. It includes bun­dled font col­lec­tions, tools for edit­ing glyphs with pan-zoom can­vas, kern­ing adjust­ment, and the abil­i­ty to trace bitmap or TTF/OTF fonts. Exports stan­dard SVG 1.1 font files and keeps all work local to your device.

Coral Pix­els is a col­or font inspired by sub­pix­el ren­der­ing tech­niques. It enhances the retro pix­el font style com­mon­ly seen in games and dig­i­tal art by adding col­or, cre­at­ing a more vivid dig­i­tal aes­thet­ic.

Gor­tonDig­i­tal is a dig­i­tal revival of the Gor­ton type­face, a 20^th-cen­tu­ry inter­war font orig­i­nal­ly used by the George Gor­ton Machine Com­pa­ny for engrav­ing machines. The repos­i­to­ry con­tains tem­plate splines and tools to gen­er­ate mul­ti­ple font weights (light, nor­mal, medi­um, bold) using Font­Forge’s stroke expan­sion. Free for non-com­mer­cial use; com­mer­cial licens­ing requires a dona­tion to a US-based edu­ca­tion­al non-prof­it.

Opti­cian Sans is a free font based on the his­tor­i­cal Snellen and Sloan eye charts and opto­types used by opti­cians world wide for cen­turies.

From neon signs to let­ters sculpt­ed into a building’s façade, Chica­go has a long his­to­ry of amaz­ing sig­nage. So many of these signs have been lost over the years, but these free fonts are pre­serv­ing what we still have and com­mem­o­rat­ing what we have lost.

The Inter­na­tion­al Typo­graph­ic Style pro­ject­ed one step into the future. MD UI is a neo-grotesque tuned for max­i­mum per­for­mance across all scales; a type­face that aug­ments the func­tion of a time­less form.

Turn your hand­writ­ing into an instal­lable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every plat­form and the web. Print, write, scan, down­load.

This page describes ​“Hotel Retro,” a Let­ter­form Archive book fea­tur­ing 330 vin­tage hotel lug­gage label stick­ers. It is avail­able for pre-order.

A plu­g­in for the Glyphs font edi­tor that enhances the Pen­cil tool with three fea­tures: draw­ing sim­pli­fied paths, redraw­ing exist­ing paths, and draw­ing closed paths. — michaelrafailyk/​PencilModifier

Fran Sans is a font based on the dis­play type of SF’s MUNI light rail trains. The

A free font that is a trib­ute to LITT.CHR. Con­tribute to disastrid/​LittleCharacter devel­op­ment by cre­at­ing an account on GitHub.

A bare­ly read­able two-pix­el-tall font.

Fonts are one of the most vis­i­ble, most pow­er­ful parts of the web. And yet: almost every­one gets them wrong.

Test­ing ver­ti­cal met­rics typog­ra­phy across browsers.

A type­face for cre­at­ing sparklines in text with­out code. — aftertheflood/​sparks

Ares­lu­na doc­u­ments the dis­cov­ery and analy­sis of Gor­ton, an obscure geo­met­ric sans-serif font ubiq­ui­tous on vin­tage com­put­er key­boards and through­out New York City. The author traces the font’s quirky char­ac­ter­is­tics, mys­te­ri­ous ori­gins, and unex­pect­ed appear­ances across urban sig­nage and design, reveal­ing a hid­den typo­graph­ic his­to­ry.

Iosev­ka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, mono­space + quasi‑proportional type­face fam­i­ly, designed for writ­ing code, using in ter­mi­nals, and prepar­ing tech­ni­cal doc­u­ments.

City­wide is a sans-serif fam­i­ly inspired by mid-1900s bus and train des­ti­na­tion roll signs.