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Please don't make me go camping or eat bitter gourd for dinner
Most of these fonts are under the OFL (Open Font License). Hopefully you guys too can find some hidden treasures there to explore, adapt, and build upon! 😃
Almost five years ago on @fontstruct, I created the hashtag #nfnw (Never Finished, Never Will) as a way to share a small collection of typefaces I knew I wouldn’t complete.
Instead of letting them sit unfinished, I released them so others could draw inspiration from them and freely reuse the ideas in their own work.
I never imagined that #nfnw would grow into something others would embrace, sharing their own half-finished font projects with the community. It genuinely brings me joy to see such generosity and openness so that ideas can circulate, evolve, and be remixed in creative new ways.
notyourtypefoundryThere are so many serif typefaces—today Xiaoyuan is adding one more to the pile: anotherSerif. This is her first attempt at a serif typeface—well, mostly serif. Most glyphs follow serif conventions, but some don't.
anotherSerif is a typeface that explores irregularity and inconsistency, qualities often overlooked or under appreciated. Each glyph has its own size, sometimes breaking all conventions: for example, the uppercase P is smaller than lowercase p. As a dot matrix-based typeface, this irregularity surprisingly helps readability at small sizes... After commonSans, it felt natural to make anotherSerif. :)
I'm very impressed at OTT Foundry's type samples of their new font, Buzz. They nailed the tabloid pastiche and did so much to prove its workhorse worthiness, all with a *single* weight/cut.
I found out that rather than waiting for a glue gun to heat up, I can just use a lighter to heat the end of a glue stick and dab the melted end to where I want things to adhere.
It's faster and I don't have to deal with extra glue dribbling from the tip of the glue gun thereafter.
*P.S.: Of course, please don't hold the lighter to the glue that long that it starts dripping from the stick itself, and don't use a short glue stick so that your fingers don't get exposed to an open flame.
Me when I get too excited about type weights and ligatures and try to implement it in every way at the expense of comprehension: