hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #535 (2024-09-24): Typography Tuesday

    Discover TODS for optimized web typography, explore vintage font collections in the Internet Archive, and learn about Unicode 16.0’s new characters in this Typography Tuesday edition of the Drop.

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  • Drop #531 (2024-09-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop takes another peek into the world of font creation, explores the historical intersection of typography and automation, and showcases a unique (free) display font that challenges our visual perception.

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  • Drop #527 (2024-09-10): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (well, *yesterday’s*) typography-centric edition of the Drop features accessibility, font evaluation, and San Francisco’s font evolution (and it’s 10th birthday!).

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  • Drop #525 (2024-09-03): Typography Tuesday

    In today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop, get ready to upgrade your terminal and editor game with two free monospace fonts: Departure Mono, inspired by early CLIs & GUIs, and Karsa Mono, designed with a retro digital feel. Plus, dive into the quirky world of font sizes and line heights with “Font Size Is Useless”.…

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  • Drop #521 (2024-08-27): Typography Tuesday

    The Typography Tuesday edition of the Drop focuses on two monospaced fonts and a handy tool for making stylized unicode alphanumeric-esque glyphs (just be careful when/how you use it).

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  • Drop #516 (2024-08-13): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the creation of a comprehensive pixel font pack by indie game developer Chevy Ray. We also explore the influence of typeface selection on political campaign logos, and highlight the services and offerings of the Letterform Archive, a nonprofit center dedicated to preserving and celebrating graphic design and typography.

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  • Drop #511 (2024-08-06): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop talks about the FontJoy Embedding Projector, a visualization tool for font data exploration. We also 👀 into the lost and rediscovered Pouchée alphabets from the 1820s. And, it features LCT. Sinar, a contemporary free font with a reverse contrast variable style.

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  • Drop #506 (2024-07-29): Content-Type: text/html/markdown

    The super-tardy Monday Drop introduces the “url-knife” JavaScript library for manipulating plaintext and XML/HTML contents, as well as a “Gather CLI” tool for converting web URLs to Markdown documents, particularly useful for note-taking and RAG

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  • Drop #503 (2024-07-23): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Eco fonts, which are designed to reduce ink consumption and environmental impact in printing. It also takes a look at AI-driven font recommendation systems thar=t are emerging to simplify font selection (include links to a spiffy open model, too).

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  • Drop #496 (2024-07-09): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop has a cryptically titled section “Inter Typus Enim GNOME Defectu” that you’ll have to read to find out more, plus a deep dive on a super cool font family that’s great for prose and coding/terminals, and also introduces the world’s smallest, readable font.

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