hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #643 (2025-04-22): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of The Drop highlights new developments and challenges in font design. Key points include Microsoft’s Kermit typeface aimed at aiding children with dyslexia, the issues related to thin fonts causing accessibility problems, and the declining status of the em dash due to AI overuse in writing, threatening typographic culture.

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  • Drop #639 (2025-04-15): [Tardy] Typography Tuesday

    Today’s [tardy — due to DOGE] Typography Tuesday covers a study questioning I-beam designs using typeface cross-sections, the manicule’s historical significance as a symbol, and a modern sans serif font, Ronzino, contrasting with Arial in design and functionality.

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  • Drop #634 (2025-04-08): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution of smart quotes and accent marks in typography, highlighting their historical context and modern usage. It also introduces the Style Manual, which provides guidance on British and American English punctuation, and features the DT Hebrinks typeface, a free serif font. Overall, it emphasizes the importance of…

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  • Drop #632 (2025-04-01): [Tardy] Typography Tuesday

    Today’s [tardy] typographic edition of the Drop discusses the significance of typography in the series Severance. It also features two silly, but fun 🍜 fonts. The Drops are mysterious and important.

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  • Drop #627 (2025-03-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, introduces. Hyperglot, and showcases the Kyiv Type Foundry.

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  • Drop #623 (2025-03-18): Typography^WResistance Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the drop tells the stories of three typefaces: VTC Garibaldi, VTC Ruby, and VTC Tatsuro. Each is designed to inspire hope and resistance.

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  • Drop #619 (2025-03-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric Drop highlights Mixfont, a font generator for visualizing typeface pairings; Words of Type, a multilingual encyclopedia providing expert typography terms and community access; and Fleckled, a digital archive preserving letterpress fonts for modern designers, emphasizing authenticity and handcrafted quality.

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  • Drop #612 (2025-02-25): Typopgraphy Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop features Tendrilis, a script replacing the Latin alphabet with vine-like characters. It also takes a look at the serif revolution, and features two “instrumental” (free) fonts.

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  • Drop #607 (2025-02-18): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop is a deep dive into typography’s dual role in power dynamics: from authoritarian control to resistance movements, featuring the Fonts for Freedom initiative and the accessible Inclusive Sans typeface.

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  • Drop #600 (2025-01-28): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop takes a gander at the music of type scales, hellboxes in traditional typesetting, and features the free font, Bricolage Grotesque.

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