Links / Typography
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Usable Google Fonts
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Mike of Smith & Diction put together this useful resource, in the form of a Figma file, for picking... well, ... usable Google fonts. Take your pick!
Thanks for sharing, Cameron.
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While designing a bit of UI, I was trying to find out how to type the interpunct symbol (·) on a Mac (alt + shift + 9), and found this fun, geeky little resource by type.today. They have a few different manuals up on the site that go into typographic details on things like quotation marks, spaces, dashes, brackets, and other characters you may not know a lot about. If you like type, this is a fun read.
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Words of Type brings together the terms used in typography, illustrated and explained in multiple languages. It’s a multilingual encyclopedia for typography, initiated by Lisa Huang. She noticed a lack of consistency or availability of typographic terms. In translating them, she aims to create a useful and accessible tool for everyone interested in typography.
Here, I’m linking to her essay on its creation, available on Fontstand.
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Fontstand is becoming a cooperative. They will be “owned and governed by independent type foundries” and are committed to creating a “fair, transparent and sustainable platform for font distribution”.
I’m curious to see how this shakes out. They’re running a Font User Survey which, if you ever license fonts, you might want to fill out.
As part of the process we are rethinking how fonts are licensed—aiming to design something simpler, clearer, and more intuitive for users—and this is where we need your input. We would like to hear about your experiences using fonts: What works? What’s confusing or frustrating? What would you change? Your answers will help us decide how licensing works within Fontstand Cooperative.