Category Typography

A Dotted-Zero Droid Sans Mono

For the programmers out there. Now that the controversy regarding the licence of the Droid font family included in Android is over --- and it's clear that the fonts are licensed under the Apache licence --- I am releasing a dotted version of the Droid Sans Mono, monospaced font that I am using for development (usually its either that or Liberation Mono nowadays). I prefer the dotted zero to a slashed zero in most monospaced fonts. More information can be found in the software page. I used FontForge to edit the font, so --- since some of the hinting instructions are not supported by this application --- I've scraped them and used the built-in autohinter. If you wish to use the modified font, they are --- of course --- also provided under the Apache licence, like the original. As always, your comments are very welcome.

FontStruct!

A free, flash-based and easy to use webapp with which you can 'design, build and share' your own modular fonts. Excellent.

Lucida Grandε.

This has been itching me ever since I installed Leopard. Lucida Grande, the ‘default’ font for much of OS X’s UI has been ‘upgraded’ to version 6.0. This wouldn’t be a problem (or even noticeable) if the new Lucida Grande hadn’t replaced the glyph for the hellenic character epsilon with the ugliest, most striking version […]

Downloadable fonts and CSS

One of the main gripes of designers and users alike about the Web is its inherent dependence on the few, largely mediocre (e.g. Trebuchet, Times New Roman, Courier New) or poor (Arial, Comic Sans, Verdana etc.) fonts that Microsoft commissioned or designed more than a decade ago. This year CSS turns ten and along with it comes yet another proposal on the Web's Typographic liberation. Or sort of. This time it might work, although scores of technical and legal questions remain. A List Apart has the details.

HVD Fonts: F*ck Comic Sans :)

A few nice free title fonts by HVD Fonts (Germany). Their HVD Comic Serif is quite nice (and its accompanying PDF -- excerpt below -- hilarious). I, obviously, share the sentiments. :)
Fuck Comic Sans!
Image © hvdfonts.de

Mason Sans ή αλλιώς το Χαος

Μετά από αρκετό καιρό αποφάσισα να κάνω κάποιες αισθητικές αλλαγές στο cosmix.org. Δεν είναι κάτι το ιδιαίτερο ώστε να αξίζει αναφορά εδώ, όμως παρατήρησα κάτι που με προβλημάτισε. Κοιτώντας στο Web για γραμματοσειρές πέτυχα την Mason Sans Greek Alternative. Τη γραμματοσειρά μπορείτε να τη δείτε στο νεο λογότυπο του cosmix.org. Ψάχνωντας λοιπόν τη βρήκα στο […]

Inconsolata

A few weeks ago I stumbled across Inconsolata, Raph Levien’s monospaced font and it has since become one of my favourites. The font is clearly inspired by Consolas, the new monospaced font designed by Lucas de Groot for Microsoft’s Windows Vista Operating System. Inconsolata borrows several characteristics of that font, but is longer in height […]