typography

A collaboration between TresJS and PMNDRS to release official support for a typography engine for web graphics using WebGPU.

Paranoia Sans is a self-censoring typeface that automatically redacts terms popular in conspiracy myths using ligatures, created as an open-source project.

Bastardica is a web tool that enables users to create hybrid 'bastard' fonts by mixing, stretching, and squishing different fonts, with all processing done locally in the browser.

semfont is a library that automatically applies typographic styles to text based on word scores for valence, salience, surprise, and certainty to enhance readability.

Unified Arabic is a typographic system designed by Nasri Khattar to simplify Arabic script by reducing letter variations for easier typing and learning, though it has not been widely adopted.

The article discusses the challenges of full justification in monospace text and highlights an example where an author manually chose words to achieve perfect alignment, as seen in a Super Metroid guide.

Nebula Sans is a new open-source typeface designed for legibility in digital and print, based on Source Sans and intended as a drop-in alternative to Whitney SSm.

The article argues that anti-AI fonts, designed to prevent AI scraping, are ineffective and harmful due to accessibility issues, privacy concerns, and the inevitability of AI bypassing them, which could enable censorship.

This article explains why the up and down white arrows in Unicode render inconsistently on macOS, detailing Unicode code points and font design issues.

A deep dive into Gorton, an unsung font used on keyboards and throughout New York City, exploring its quirks, history, and ubiquity.

An appreciation of typography in Blade Runner's title cards, alongside a personal exploration of fixed-width typefaces for coding in the terminal.

ShieldFont is a typeface and toolkit that protects written content from unauthorized AI training by subtly swapping words with fluent, false decoys that poison scraped datasets, while keeping the real text readable for humans and screen readers.

TypeStax is a type scale generator that wraps a functional design tool in a vintage audio hardware-styled interface, making typography scaling feel tactile and playful.

ReDesign is an agentic framework that recovers editable layer hierarchies from raster images by selecting and composing specialized tools across modalities, introducing graceful verification to prevent error accumulation. It also introduces the FigmaEditReplay Benchmark for evaluating editability at scale, achieving high visual fidelity and superior editability over baselines.

Fonts In Use is a website that helps designers identify and explore where specific fonts are used in real-world designs, such as album art and posters.

A developer investigates why footnote backlink glyphs render as emoji in RSS readers, explores Unicode variation selectors (U+FE0E and U+FE0F) for controlling text vs emoji presentation, and discusses the broader challenges of variation selectors for web content.

Decoy Font is a TTF font that uses spatial frequency tricks to embed a hidden message readable by humans at a distance while showing a decoy up close, making it harder for AI to read what you type.

Article argues against using generative AI in design and typography, emphasizing the millennia-long human evolution behind letterforms and warning that AI tools freeze cultural development by relying on limited training data.

The Proportional Web is a CSS stylesheet and design guide inspired by Robert Bringhurst's classic 'The Elements of Typographic Style', aiming to implement book-like typography and layout for the web. It is an open-source project by Oskar Wickström, released under MIT license.

The Manichaean fleuron Unicode character has a right-to-left directional type that can cause unexpected text reordering in web layouts. The article explains the issue and provides fixes using HTML's <bdi> tag or CSS unicode-bidi property.