Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of …

We all use type every day, from word processors and social media graphic apps to professional desktop design software and hand-coded websites. Good typography is within everyone’s …

A typeface is what you see; a font is what you use.

A beginners' guide to choosing web fonts.

Equip yourself with the tools and processes needed to most meaningfully work with type, from setting appropriate measures and considered line heights, to working with web fonts and …

B612 is an highly legible open source font family, designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens. Its design makes it particularly suitable for degraded contexts (ensuring …

Didot’s type was the base for a new font, GFS Didot (1994), which was designed by Takis Katsoulidis, and digitised by George Matthiopoulos, of the Greek Font Society. The typeface is …

Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the complete 897 character set, which includes the …

A simple but thorough checklist to reference every time we need to choose a new typeface, with each item explained in detail.