Tagged: typography

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Typography primer #

Joshua Ogle wrote an excellent intro to typography, a topic of which every developer should have a basic understanding.

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Witness: a free font from Mars Hill #

Witness is a fun font from the creative team at Mars Hill. Bold and normal weights are included as upper and lower case glyphs. I especially like the W.

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Nice collection of body typefaces #

There is a growing list of great looking typefaces on Google's directory, however most look better for headlines. Ross Johnson has put together a list of great typefaces for body copy, explaining his selection criteria in his blog post.

Unless you're reading this in your newsreader, you're enjoying Bitter.

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Font design - from vision to sketch to reality #

Ludwig Übele writing for I Love Typography:

I had in mind this idea of a wide and flat landscape. This was the initial idea: Tundra should lead the eye effortlessly along the line, thus emphasizing the horizontal.

Nice-looking serif face that delivers on that initial vision.

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