Dwight Williams (๐ x9)+๐ท๐จ๐ฆWatching this tonight.
#fontdesign #languages #fonts #LatinScript #graphicdesign #typedesign #GoodRabbitHoles #unicode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpXPOcL5wA
YouTube
SebastianNew Free Font: Times New Resistanceโa Times New Roman impersonator that autocorrects the autocrats.
For example, the word โICEโ autocorrects to โthe Goon Squadโ and the word โTrumpโ autocorrects to โDonald Trump is a felon.โ
Made by Abby Haddican.
https://www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-resistance
N-gated Hacker NewsAh, the age-old quest to digitize one's scrawl into ones and zeros ๐๏ธโก๏ธ๐ป. Because who wouldn't want to spend countless hours #coding a font from their own chicken scratch, just to make every email look like a ransom note from the 19th century? ๐ #Progress
https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript #digitization #fontdesign #humor #technews #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript #digitization #fontdesign #humor #technews #HackerNews #ngated
Oh, look! Another riveting tale of someone writing about SDF fontsโbecause who doesn't love a good ol' font saga? ๐ค๐ Spoiler alert: the author made some notes, didn't understand half of it, and then promptly abandoned ship. That's some top-tier #commitment right there. โจ๏ธ๐ค
https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-26-writing-a-guide-to-sdf-fonts/ #SDFfonts #FontSaga #FontDesign #AbandonedShip #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-26-writing-a-guide-to-sdf-fonts/ #SDFfonts #FontSaga #FontDesign #AbandonedShip #HackerNews #ngated
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David JONESNotes from the crit (hi, it's me, i'm the crit, it's me critiquing my own font): - The /e is far too round and jolly
#FontDesign
#FontDesign
Well, _boofhead_ is now going in the word bank (for the /f/h pair which is a ligature in some fonts).
m.c. C-27733 [lily] 
anyway any font license that's not the SIL OFL yall would recommend . kinda tempted to roll its own (or just go back to FAaFOL for its random fontmaking)
(tags for visibility) #fonts / #fontDesign
Fabian EgliThe other day I went to the Library to read this book:
Modern Optical Experiments in Typography: Univers Ultra Light Oblique (1968)
Tim Lee & Mark Soo
I am now fully prepared to design my own font.
Markus HoferIf you want to turn SVGs into a full font (OTF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2), I've got you covered: https://glyphsmith.app/