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Cicero
Cicero is a font manager for the Mac from Denmark. It is free and open source. I offers font activation/deactivation, tags, smart folders, the display of similar fonts, a character toolbox to check glyph and language coverage, clearing various fonts caches and more.
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Type Specimen: MacOS font QuickLook plugin
Improved font preview with additional information and support for TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, TTC and some color font formats.
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Archiving the Future: Challenges Archiving Digital Typeface Development
CJ Dunn interviewing Ferdinand P. Ulrich and Dan Reynolds.
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Tegaki: Every font, written by hand
An open-source handwriting animation library for any font. Tegaki extracts each glyph's strokes, their order and width, and draws them stroke by stroke on a canvas over real, selectable text.
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FrankMoji color font
A set of 3684 hand-drawn images available as color font or SVG/PNG images.
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"Fonts for a horror movie" — a font library you search in plain sentences
Hi everyone, I built Fontinical, a font library where you describe what you need in a sentence, like "a font for company training slides" or "a font for a horror movie title," instead of picking tags like cute, modern or scary. It started as a tool for myself, because tag-based…
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A Fascinating Collection of Hungarian Sign Painting Photos, 1906–1976
Women feature prominently in these archival images of signs and sign painters at work in Hungary.
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Gebetsbuchen Initialen font
The font site 1001 fonts has a nice, illuminated letters font called Gebetsbuchen Initialen: https://www.1001fonts.com/gebetsbuch-initialen-font.html It's free for commercial use, which is even better. HOWEVER ... it's lacking several characters. There are no 'C,' no 'Q,' no…
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Announcing the Unicode Standard version 18.0
This version adds 13,007 new characters, including nine new emoji characters as well as many other characters and symbols, bringing the total number of encoded characters to 172,808.
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Looking for a backup of Taschen's "Type Vol. 1" digital archive (Key card owner)
Hi everyone, I am an original owner of Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1. Unfortunately, I lost the physical book during a move, but I still have my original Key Card and access code. As many of you know, Taschen's download platform is no longer…
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Better typography with LibreOffice 26.8
LibreOffice adds support for a paragraph composer and variable fonts among other things.
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ShieldFont against AI crawling
ShielfFont is an open-source technology intervention developed to protect human writing from unauthorized AI training.
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WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web
16 years ago, the first public working draft of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) was published. WOFF is how downloadable fonts on the Web went from “no-one uses it” to “most sites use it”. An article by Chris Lilley.
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Font editor Glyphs 4 is out
The new major release of the popular MacOS font editor is now available.
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Lipi.ai
Lipi.ai is an online platform for: identifying typefaces from images or screenshots, detecting a font's copyright and licensing status, generating new typefaces with AI, and Font Studio for hands-on customization. Available as a web app or an API for teams embedding typography…
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Variable Font UI is Broken
“Many major graphics/publishing apps have missed the boat with their user interface choices for variable fonts. Given the ongoing steady growth of variable font usage and availability, it seems worth fixing things.”
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The Evolution of Japanese Typography: From the Edo Period to Today
By Vicki Tinnel. This research paper sets out to study the evolution of western-influenced Japanese typography from the turn of the twentieth century to the modern digital age. The last one hundred years have seen more changes in script and typography than the previous four…
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Futura is one of my favorite fonts.
I like the design of this font, and it looks good. I have some example sentences. What are you thoughts on futura?
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NZAGS. We used Caslon Old face and small caps and need macrons...
When we started using Indesign for our mag, we used Caslon, but now we can't access it. I want a similar font for our headings which was Caslon italic swash especially, as I liked the swirl on the top of the B serif etc. I am a home producer and find it all confusing. Can we buy…
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"Free" Berthold Transmix
Hi everyone, I am sorry to "intrude" and hope this is Ok. I am looking to donate a piece of equipment that I think this community might be interested in. Otherwise it will be scrapped. My dad passed away a dozen years ago, and he left behind a lot of strange equipment, including…