Beauty and Ugliness in Type design | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog
A fascinating look at what happens when you mash up beauty and ugliness in one typeface.
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V6: Typography and Proportions | Rob Weychert
Rob walks us through the typographic choices for his recent redesign:
Most of what I design that incorporates type has a typographic scale as its foundation, which informs the typeface choices and layout proportions. The process of creating that scale begins by asking what the type needs to do, and what role contrasting sizes will play in that.
Interface font family
Interface is a font for highly legible text on computer screens.
And it’s free!
Typography for User Interfaces | Viljami Salminen
The history and physiology of text on screen. You can also see the slides from the talk that prompted this article.
Read Regular / Introduction
A forthcoming typeface designed specifically to help people with dyslexia read and write more effectively.