hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #591 (2025-01-14): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop pulls out the legal pad to scribble some prose about the intricate world of font licensing. It also celebrates `womxn` designers in typography, and showcases an elegant font family from a featured collection.

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  • Drop #587 (2025-01-07): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS’s text-wrap: balance property, improving visual text layouts by evenly distributing text across lines for better readability.

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  • Drop #583 (2025-01-01): Wrapping Day

    The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise.

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  • Drop #582 (2024-12-31): Typography Tuesday

    The final Typography Tuesday of 2024 reviews a novel font ownership model that offers royalties for designers. Additionally, notable typography talks from the Letterform Archive explored data visualization, icon technologies, and historical design influences, emphasizing unique contributions from diverse designers. We can’t leave 2024 w/o a present, in the form of free fonts from the…

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  • Drop #573 (2024-12-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography-centric edition of the Drop features Badkeming’s exploration of kerning failures, the unique Alpha Lyrae font with glitch effects, and the narrative importance of comic lettering.

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  • Drop #569 (2024-12-10): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop features Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps which showcase remarkable artistry with unique, hand-drawn letterforms that create a distinct typographic style for each location. Additionally, two free fonts, 3270font and Libre Caslon Condensed, offer modern adaptations of classic typography.

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  • Drop #564 (2024-12-03): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop highlights the evolution of typography in adapting to digital environments, thereby enhancing readability and design versatility. Key resources and innovations in modern typography are also mentioned, including a free, modern monospaced font!

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  • Drop #562 (2024-11-26): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop features The Type Archive, established in 1992, closed in 2022 due to financial issues but has been digitized by the Science Museum Group. We also take a quick peek at Damien Guard’s 2023 Advent of Fonts and introduce the free brush-style font, Perfect Moment, which showcases handcrafted aesthetics while maintaining legibility across various…

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  • Drop #557 (2024-11-19): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution of ink traps in typography, pinpointing three types: Light Traps, Corner Cuts, and Tear Traps. It also highlights a free programming font, Envy Code R, known for its clear differentiation between characters. Additionally, it mentions a font generator for creating Unicode-based “fonts”.

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  • Drop #550 (2024-11-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses Google’s initiatives to enhance typography through projects like Oxidize and Fontations, focusing on migrating font manipulation to Rust for better performance and memory safety. It also covers type revival for film and TV, emphasizing the importance of recreating vintage typefaces to achieve historical accuracy while accommodating modern production…

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