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fromMedium
8 hours ago

Hyperlegible Sans: a free, open-source font for accessible design

Subtle glyph and spacing modifications improve typeface readability for low-vision users without sacrificing aesthetic consistency.
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fromItsnicethat
14 hours ago
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Making publications into playgrounds for design: Madeline Montoya on the creative practices behind Byline and Bloomberg Businessweek

fromItsnicethat
14 hours ago
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Making publications into playgrounds for design: Madeline Montoya on the creative practices behind Byline and Bloomberg Businessweek

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fromSFGATE
6 days ago

The long, unresolved debate over one of San Francisco's most recognizable logos

Thrasher's logo, designed by Kevin Thatcher in 1980, became a globally recognized cultural symbol, crossing skate subculture into mainstream fashion.
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fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Benoit Bohnke tells time differently through visualisations that play with colour and motion

12:12 visualizes time through twelve experimental digital clocks and guest projects using typographic, chromatic, motion, and coding-driven animations.
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fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Deborah Khodanovich's font honours the most trivialised form of communication - gossip

Gossip functions as a communal craft that preserves values, enables care, evades censorship, and challenges patriarchal control through informal, untraceable conversation and typographic reclamation.
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Faber Editions' type-led cover design system is breathing new life into old books

Those he saw as "most successful" had a "bold typographic and/or illustrative treatment" which in turn "countered the dominance" of the branding strip that ran down the side. "This realisation led me to define some rules for the designs of the individual covers that tried to ensure that the covers would never feel overwhelmed by the branding system," says Pete. "The core rule was that the Editions would essentially be typographic covers, or typographically-led covers in terms of the hierarchy between type and image."
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fromwww.dailymail.co.uk
1 week ago

Revealed: The old-school equivalents of the '6-7' craze

Children create secret languages and ephemeral slang like '67' that spread rapidly on social media, bewilder adults, and prompt school bans.
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Monotype's logo for lingerie brand Chantelle Pulp takes on different weights to celebrate all shapes and sizes

Monotypes logotype couldn't just exist in one static state - "ideas of diversity, adaptability, and boundary-pushing were central to the creation of the variable logo from the start," says Daniel. Collaborative workshops, sketching sessions and exchanges with Chantelle's global chief creative officer, Renaud Cambuzat, and head of design, Natalia Kotkowska, cemented into the idea for a shapeshifter logo capable of morphing its look through different weights and shapes.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crp | Viv Groskop

Incorrect use of Cyrillic in design creates misleading exoticism and insults speakers who read and write Cyrillic scripts.
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from9to5Google
1 month ago

Google recaps the road from Product Sans to open-sourcing Google Sans Flex

Google developed Product Sans and refined Google Sans and Google Sans Text to balance bold brand expression with improved readability across sizes and devices.
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fromCSS-Tricks
1 month ago
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Fit width text in 1 line of CSS | CSS-Tricks

CSS adds text-grow and text-shrink to scale text per-line or consistently using scale, scale-inline, font-size, or letter-spacing, with accessibility and behavior questions outstanding.
fromCloud Four
2 months ago
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Responsive Letter Spacing

Use a font-size–relative CSS rule that progressively tightens letter-spacing as text grows, reversing growth with a negative divisor and capping values with clamp.
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fromThe Casual Optimist
1 month ago

Notable Book Covers of 2025

Series cover designs — illustrated, typographic, and independent projects — stood out as the most notable and inventive book-cover work this year.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

The U.K.'s new public railway has a perfectly British brand

Great British Railways adopts classic British symbols: a stylized Union Jack livery, the revived 1965 double-arrow logo, and the Rail Alphabet 2 typeface.
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fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department?

Typeface characteristics like x-height, apertures, crossbar position and serif presence affect legibility; Times New Roman and Calibri differ in these features.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

A brief history of Calibri, the 'woke' font the Trump administration is replacing

The U.S. State Department will replace Calibri with Times New Roman for official communications, reversing the 2023 switch and prompting accessibility and formatting debates.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago
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Founded on friendship, Martha is the Montreal design studio that approaches branding with a human touch

fromItsnicethat
2 months ago
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Founded on friendship, Martha is the Montreal design studio that approaches branding with a human touch

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fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Grilli Type's GT Era brings an early Bauhaus chic back to the serif

GT Era is a refined grotesk that bridges expressive display and practical text use through studied historical forms, streamlined quirks, and scalable details for expression.
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fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

A tactile history of typography comes alive in Kelli Anderson's new book Alphabet in Motion

Tactile, hands-on interactions with paper and obsolete technologies enable deeper understanding, empathy, and personal empowerment in learning and experiencing letterforms.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

These Experimental Pencils Treat Writing as Performance Art - Yanko Design

There's something almost rebellious about spending serious design energy on a pencil. We're constantly told that screens are the future and handwriting is obsolete but Korean design studio BKID went all in on the opposite direction. Their project "Write Draw Think" asks a question nobody knew they needed answered: what if we stopped taking the pencil for granted? Created as research for the Hangeul Museum in 2025, this isn't your standard stationery lineup.
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fromCSS-Tricks
1 month ago

Getting Creative With "The Measure" | CSS-Tricks

Set an explicit measure (around 60ch) to control readable line length and use that measure to inform layout decisions.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago
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DIA's identity for an electronic festival mimics music with a typeface made of pulsating particles

fromItsnicethat
2 months ago
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DIA's identity for an electronic festival mimics music with a typeface made of pulsating particles

fromFast Company
1 month ago

The Utah Olympics logo is already stirring up drama

The Salt Lake City Olympics planned for 2034 are now the Utah Games after organizers announced a new logo and name to reflect the multi-community work that goes into hosting the largest winter sports event on Earth. The state's Governor, Spencer Cox, says the new logo has united people-though not in a good way. "It's really brought people together because everyone seems to not like it," Cox said at a recent press conference.
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fromfontsinuse.com
1 month ago

Teo Moussev & Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Gershwin: Cuban Overture, Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra album art

In her book Schrift und Schreiben (Leipzig, 1972), Hildegard Korger showed an "alphabet in the style of an italic Egyptienne" and two sets of decorative capitals derived from it - one with highlights and one with open letterforms - credited to Volker Küster, 1966. According to Günther Flake's biography of Küster, Black Bull is the title of a design for an Egyptienne typeface in three styles, drawn as part of his diploma project at HGB Leipzig in the mid-1960s. Korger doesn't mention the name "Black Bull", but Ihave to assume that the samples in her book show Küster's graduation project.
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fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Jo Iijima's graphic design works are cosmic swirls of moving image and blended brand identities

"Ever since I landed on Earth, I've known words to be limiting," says Jo Iijima, a graphic designer and creative based in New York City. "Visuals, however, speak to me in infinite ways." Through design, Jo layers cultures, colours and typography that go beyond mere language and dimension - and it shows. His brand identity, campaign, art direction, Risograph printing and custom typography work embraces a chaotic blend of Japanese and English, putting diverse letterforms and graphic textures into a blender.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

This charming new font is a love letter to San Francisco's public transit

Designer Emily Sneddon created Fran Sans, a font inspired by San Francisco Muni Metro display screens after months of research and modular-typography study.
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fromAWeber
1 month ago

How to Make Your Emails Look Professional in Under 2 Minutes

Use centralized theme settings to set fonts, colors, buttons, and links once so emails stay consistently styled and save time.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago
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Curves plot planetary orbits and ligatures trace shooting stars in Gwennina Moigne's astrological typeface

fromItsnicethat
2 months ago
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Curves plot planetary orbits and ligatures trace shooting stars in Gwennina Moigne's astrological typeface

fromDefector
1 month ago

The Phoenix Mercury's New Logos Vs. The Planet Mercury: An Exhausting Showdown | Defector

The Phoenix Mercury have one of the best nicknames in sports. It's classical, referring to the Roman god of, among other things, travel, trickery, and luck. It's local, referring to fact that Phoenix is a monument to man's arrogance. And it is scientific, referring to one of our solar system's weirdest and most interesting planets. But until now they had a deeply unserious logo that screamed Googie by way of 1990s kitsch.
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fromFast Company
2 months ago

The best new postage stamps coming out in 2026

"This early preview of our 2026 stamp program underscores the Postal Service's commitment to celebrating the artistry and storytelling that make stamps so special," Stamp Services director Lisa Bobb-Semple said in a statement. "Each stamp is a small work of art - an entryway into a larger story that connects people, places and moments in history." Many of the stamps are bright or use typography in bold or creative ways.
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fromArs Technica
2 months ago

In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon

Using :-) and :-( to mark jokes versus serious comments resolved tone ambiguity in text, enabling clearer intent and helping sarcasm flourish online.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Tracing the "quieter dread that sits beneath creative work" with Plates of Meat magazine

The magazine is shrouded in biblical symbolism. Silva posits the King James Bible as the visual backbone of the issue. "The typography, the pacing of the text, even the use of white space," says Silva. "I wanted it to feel like a school Bible left in a drawer, the kind that's been scribbled on by bored kids waiting for the assembly to end."
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fromMedium
2 months ago

This Small Tool Makes AI Sound Human

Dashy Drop removes AI-added em and en dashes from text to restore a natural human writing voice.
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fromwww.creativebloq.com
2 months ago

Is it just me, or is this font suddenly everywhere?

Retro serif fonts are resurging across branding and tech, replacing flat sans-serif dominance to evoke nostalgia, warmth, and occasional controversy.
fromAuldenglish
2 months ago

Auld English fonts: A Sea-Change in the Look of Language by Nick Shinn

Today's English alphabet is unchanged since the 16th century-with one exception: the long‑s fell from use circa 1800. Previously, there had been two forms of the letter /s: a long (tall) version at the beginning and in the middle of words, and another, our present‑day /s, at the end of words. The reform used the terminal version throughout. There are two theories as to why this occurred, neither satisfactory.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Pentagram design Mozilla's new internet-savvy editorial platform Nothing Personal

The NP. mark is "deliberately simple", focusing on a character that comes from its behaviour rather than its look. "It often overlays imagery, not to obscure but to create another layer of meaning. It becomes both a window and a veil, echoing how identity functions online - always present, always mediated," says Natasha. The colour system is bright and "contrasty", creating tension and urgency,
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Elastic's first issue challenges and reinvents psychedelic aesthetics

Elastic magazine uses surreal layouts, misprinting, and absurd imagery to create psychedelic, disorienting reader experiences that emphasize visual tension and interspecies themes.
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fromFast Company
2 months ago

This fantastical pop-up book tells the mind-bending history of typography

Alphabet in Motion uses 17 hand-designed pop-ups and a 120-page companion of essays to demonstrate typography's evolution from ancient Egypt to the digital age.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Meet the Nigerian graphic designers bringing African expression to typography

Nigerian designers revive vernacular street lettering and indigenous scripts to create a distinctly African type design, resisting lingering Western typographic influence.
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fromColossal
2 months ago

Pop-Up Letters Set the 'Alphabet in Motion' in Kelli Anderson's Playful Book

A communication designer created an interactive pop-up book, Alphabet in Motion, revealing typography's evolution through tactile, kinetic letterforms and archival research.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Maxence Duterne 'grows' type by simulating movements of the natural world

Maxence Duterne creates generative tools and installations that simulate natural growth and render light tactile, bridging human control and natural behaviors.
fromMission Local
2 months ago

What's on now at San Francisco museums, November 2025

There's a lot going on here. Through this weekend, there is a Behind-the-Screams Tour, where guests will face skeletons, parasites, bloodsuckers, and more from the collection. The newly renovated Wilson Family Nature Lab is opened in mid-October with lots of hands-on learning. Coming up on Nov. 22, there is a one-night only Welcome Winter Night, with two baby reindeer (and a naming contest), magic shows, and lots of other activities.
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fromMedium
2 months ago

Typography Basics

Typography shapes written language into a visual experience; spacing, anatomy, alignment, and typeface choices determine readability, rhythm, and tone.
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