There are many articles about nice monospace typefaces, but Programming Fonts lets you see all the good ones live on-screen—and how your work looks in it. I'm a big fan of APL385, with a truly ancient pedigree, whose eccentricities land perfectly at the needs of the moment: high-dpi fixed-width legibility that's fun without drowning in nostalgia for old displays and their stupid pixels.
Test-drive nice programming fonts live on the web
There are many articles about nice monospace typefaces, but Programming Fonts lets you see all the good ones live on-screen—and how your work looks in it. I'm a big fan…
Goldman Sachs releases its own font, forbids criticism of Goldman Sachs with it
Goldman Sachs has released its own eponymous font, Goldman Sans, a contemporary sans-serif that garnishes merciless formality with a charming typographic "wink" here and there [h/t Matt Round]. It is… READ THE REST
Why the Cooper Black typeface is everywhere
Why this font is everywhereWatch this video on YouTube Vox made a good video about the history of the Cooper Black typeface, created in 1919 and still in common use… READ THE REST
Scunthorpe Sans, a self-censoring font
Scunthorpe Sans is a font based on Aileron that adds auto-censoring ligatures for a selection naughty words. It’s able to detect the words f***, s***, p***, t***, w***, c*** and… READ THE REST
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Save 50% on a 1-year subscription to Dashlane's premium password manager
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The Bite Helper removes the itch of a mosquito bite in seconds
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