hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #507 (2024-07-30): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    This tardy Typography Tuesday edition of the Drop features “Hello Type Friends!” a podcast by Elliot Jay Stocks, offering insights into the lives and work of typography professionals. It also takes a look at the A++ upgrade to the venerable Proxima Nova font, and links to a short survey to help grok the typegeist.

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  • Drop #500 (2024-07-16): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography-centric edition of the Drop includes details about “Typeset in the Future,” a website and book delving into the typography of science fiction films. It also introduces “Wordmark,” a tool for visualizing and comparing fonts, and explores the rich history of ligatures from ancient scripts to modern digital fonts.

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  • Drop #498 (2024-07-101): HTTP Toolbox Companions

    It’s a 🕸️🕷️-focused Drop, today, with two tools (well, one tool and one tool/library/ecosystem) for slurping content up (responsibly!), and one TUI for helping craft perfect APIs

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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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  • Drop #491 (2024-07-02): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers The Readability Consortium, Hoefler & Co.’s “Proofs” project, and features a fancy, free collection of hand-drawn fonts.

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  • Drop #487 (2024-06-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of “The Drop” features a full inference engine in a font, some longform blathering on fonts and road signs, and a featured set of fun pixel fonts.

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  • Drop #483 (2024-06-18): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop explores the importance of typography in dates, times, and filenames, emphasizing the need for concise, understandable, and scannable file naming conventions. We also discuss the FontCDN web app for easy font selection and introduce the Classic Console Neue font, designed for command-line interfaces and code editing tools with extensive…

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  • Drop #478 (2024-06-04): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop features: “Building OpenType Math Fonts”, “The Comic Sans of the 70s”, and “The Periodic Table of Typefaces.” The first two are somewhat long-form sections to give you something to chew on while the Drop is on holiday next week.

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  • Drop #475 (2024-05-28): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography Tuesday Drop dives into technical aspects of fonts, highlighting Glyph-ByT5’s character-level text enhancement, opentype.js’s font manipulation capabilities, and Spotify’s new customizable font, Spotify Mix.

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  • Drop #470 (2024-05-21): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop features two informative tutorials and introduces the font Amstelvar. The “Interactive Type Tutorial” offers a practical approach to mastering typography basics, while “A Variable Fonts Primer” explores the versatility and benefits of variable fonts. Additionally, Amstelvar, a 17-axis variable font inspired by Dutch and Belgian typefaces, is showcased and available for personal and…

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