Jake Giltsoff

@jakegiltsoff
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Designer @ Adobe Fonts.
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Thoughts on fonts, typography, front-end development, UI, and UX.
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I’ve started a new series interviewing type designers on how they got into type and how they stay creatively satisfied. This month, I spoke with Amy Hood of Hoodzpah —

https://maketypework.com/making-type-amy-hood-of-hoodzpah/

Making Type: Amy Hood of Hoodzpah

I am beyond stoked to have our next installment of Making Type with Amy Hood. I’m unabashedly a fanboy of Hoodzpah and will not stop buying their merch. I’m talking bumper sticker on my car, poster on my office wall, mug for my coffee, hat on my head.

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Does anyone know of any good resources for restaurant menu design? My searches are flooded with pretty mediocre templates and I’m looking for some nicely made real inspiration.
Sabrina Carpenter was my top artist for a second year in a row (make of that what you will) so naturally I had to look into the fonts she uses:
https://maketypework.com/sabrina-carpenter-short-n-sweet-tour-fonts/
Sabrina Carpenter: Short n’ Sweet tour fonts

Sabrina Carpenter Fonts from Short n’ Sweet tour. Espresso, Good Graces, Taste, Manchild, Juno, Please, Bed Chem. SC logo and Sabrina After Dark.

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Back to the important work of investigating which fonts Taylor Swift is using

https://maketypework.com/the-fonts-of-a-showgirl/

The Fonts of a Showgirl

Taylor Swift Fonts from The Life of a Showgirl lyric videos. The Fate of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor, Opalite, Father Figure, and more

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When you think of 'plain text' what font do you think of?

@kizu @piccalilli @5t3ph Hello clever people, I’m trying to wrap my head around if it’s possible to use container queries and a variable font with a width axis to basically do fit-text+ (i.e. prioritize getting the font narrower before getting smaller as the container shrinks)

Is this something any of you have come across?

Do we just post the same thing in multiple places to pretty much mostly the same people now? Is that how this works?
Scheduled maintenance at 5pm on Friday December 20th is unhinged, I’m here for it Figma.

Here’s a 'fun' CSS challenge — Fit Text but horizontal AND vertical constraints...

I think this could probably only be done using images / some complex JS?

Fit various words in various fonts into equally sized boxes in a grid...

Back writing about fonts — here I unearth some of the starting points for the designs used in this years ‘Pinterest Predicts’ (which does a real nice job with the type!)

https://maketypework.com/fonts-from-pinterest-predicts-2025/

Fonts from Pinterest Predicts 2025

Pinterest’s 2025 trend predictions make great use of a lot of fonts from Adobe Fonts. I did some sleuthing to work out which they are.

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