A new typeface for Volvo – Instantly legible at a glance yet also referencing the vertical tail lamps and the diagonal of the three-point safety belt.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/12/19/volvo-centum-typeface-safety/
Volvo already had a perfectly fine and just as legible custom typeface, but sure, go ahead and spend millions on an Aptos lookalike designed with “science”
#fonts #legibility #typeface
Happy Christmas. I don’t celebrate it. I remain unimpressed by its commercial bloat and theological inheritance. Still, the calendar insists, and this piece lands today.
A deaf child meets Santa. Nothing miraculous happens. No lesson is announced. Santa signs. The performance bends just enough for the child to be seen on her own terms.
🎄https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/25/legibility-meets-humanity/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#Legibility #Language #Philosophy #DisIntegration #PostEnlightenment #Recognition #Disability #xmas #Meaning #Christmas #NotebookLM
🧡💜 Lancement de la BBB ReadMe 🧡💜
Jeudi à 19h au Café Alcantra du Pianofabriek. Ouvert à toustes !
La BBB ReadMe est une fonte post-binaire à haut potentiel de lisibilité dessinée par Clara Sambot @eugbidaut @Ludi (+ avec un peu d'aide de Capu Colomès 🐣).
#typeface #font #typography #launch #dyslexia #dyslexiafont #legibility #readability #byebyebinary #postbinary #queer
"Thinking in terms of #legibility and illegibility explains so many of the things that are confusing about large software companies. It explains why companies do many things that seem obviously counter-productive, why the rules in practice are so often out of sync with the rules as written, and why companies are surprisingly willing to tolerate rule-breaking in some contexts."
The Good, the Bad, and the Unreadable, by @malin-h.bsky.social:
https://stiftelsenfunka.org/about-us/columns/the-good-the-bad-and-the-unreadable/
By Malin Hammarberg Accessibility Expert & Senior UX Designer, Funka Foundation This morning, I stood in the sun at the bus stop and tried to quickly check something on the City of Gothenburg website. But it didn’t go well, not because the sun was glaring on the screen, but because the font was so thin .../
And this is how fast Apple's #LiquidGlass style has infiltrated marketing.
As demonstrated here, the #legibility issues are a defining feature of this style, not a bug 😬
I know a ‘scrim’ as a translucent overlay, placed on images beneath a text overlay to enhance text legibility by increasing luminescence contrast.
Origins of the word ‘Scrim’ are unknown. It is used in theater to describe a loosely woven, translucent black curtain hung across the stage. When unlit from behind, it appears as a solid back wall. If actors behind it are lit, they become visible through the scrim, less bright and defined than actors in front of it.
#scrim
#theatre
#legibility
It’s More Than Picking a Pretty Font, by @uxdesigncc:
#accessibility #fonts #legibility #readability #typography #wcag
Jens Kutílek
Microglyphics
Bye Bye Binary
Mike Williamson
Dwight Walker
Frontend Dogma
Kaspar (allegedly not haunted)
Hilary Palmén
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