Aptos, the new Microsoft default font

For 15 years it has been Calibri, a thoroughly uncomfortable san-serif. Aptos looks much nicer and is quite robust. / s’more insight on The Verge

medium.com

Aptos font graphic

The expanded San Francisco font family

The base type for Apple OS gets more expressive style widths with a great overview of how and why to use each. / via Merlin who says "This man has amazing hair"

developer.apple.com

Variations of the letter a in width and weight

Exposure

A variable font built around an axis of photographic exposure / thanks K!

205.tf

Screen grab showing the variable nature of a font called Exposure that opens or closes like an aperture

Bjørn Karmann’s Occlusion Grotesque

Typeface carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually. / via Yewknee

bjoernkarmann.dk

A man sits on a chair in the woods and carves an alphabet into a tree trunk

Noto Emoji

An open-source emoji font in multiple weights (and a single color, even the flags). Jennifer Daniel has the deets and download link.

jenniferdaniel.substack.com

Rows of single color emoji depicting a chick emerging from egg, unicorn, flower, alien, tire, and pita sandwich

Fonts Knowledge

Elliott Jay Stocks on helping build a library of materials and guides to help folks understand, explore and choose type with purpose. A great resources from the Google Fonts Team.

elliotjaystocks.com

Various typographic symbols

Cartridge font

Inspired by old video game labels, Cartridge is a new display sans-serif that evokes quintessential 80s vibes - by Dan Cederholm

simplebits.com

Colorful type showcasing a retro font called Cartridge

Stop using icon fonts

For one thing? Icon fonts are notoriously bad for accessibility

irigoyen.dev

A graphic that says SVG with radiating lines

Simon Walker’s Pizza Hut Font

Tasty type

instagram.com

The awesome Mac OS Catalina fonts you didn’t know you had access to

This ALMOST makes me want to upgrade to Catalina. But I won't. / via Craig Mod

typography.guru

Braille Institute – Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

Focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability / via ignatz

brailleinstitute.org

Variable Fonts | DSType Foundry

From san to serif? Mind Blown / via Trent Walton

dstype.com

Fontjoy – Generate font pairings in one click

Fun little tool, though I wish I could influence the options a bit more on the frontside of things

fontjoy.com

Canvas Credit Union – Fonts In Use

It's weird that the mark is also a logotype and there's also a combination of a wordmark. Heck, I'm confused, but I dig it.

fontsinuse.com

Lydian font: The Nancy Drew typeface is all over new books – Vox

I'm all for humanist. I have to thank Chobani for a bit of that love.

vox.com

Coniferous by OHNO – Future Fonts

as soon as I’m back on my desktop, I’m buying this typeface

futurefonts.xyz

The Mystery Font That Took Over New York

By Rumsey Taylor

nytimes.com

Storefronts in NYC

El Mosca redesign – Fonts In Use

Dig this identity

fontsinuse.com

Dyslexie Font

A special font developed and designed for people with dyslexia to make reading, learning and working easier

dyslexiefont.com

Adobe Has Created Five Fonts From the Lost Lettering of Original Bauhaus Designers

Meticulously completed and digitized by renowned type designer Erik Spiekermann and his students. Two are available in the Creative Cloud now, three more to come! / via Kathryn

adobehiddentreasures.com

Calligraphr – Draw your own fonts.

Fill out the form, get a handwritten font

calligraphr.com

Alphafont 2018

Nice exploration of type from Matt W. Moore

mwmgraphics.blogspot.com

Piccolo – Fonts In Use

Lovely system for seed packaging

fontsinuse.com