hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #538 (2024-10-01): Typography Tuesday

    This edition of the Drop features 3 (free!) typography projects: Font Fight!, an interactive platform for comparing coding fonts; U-Bahn Font, an open-source font inspired by Vienna’s U3 digital signage; and The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack, which offers authentic remakes of vintage PC fonts in modern formats.

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  • Drop #428 (2024-02-27): Typography Tuesday

    This post covers three main topics: the typographic heresy of using the terms “typeface” and “font” interchangeably, an AIGA typography crash course, and the Figma design tool community. The typographic discussion elaborates on the differences between typeface and font, the AIGA curriculum offers typography guides, and Figma is highlighted as a valuable resource for designers.

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  • Drop #413 (2024-02-01): Happy ThursdAI

    The post discusses the AI Content Declaration by Declare-ai.org, bringing transparency to generative AI in content creation. It introduces AIfont and AImoji, AI-driven typefaces, and Galah, a web honeypot powered by OpenAI, keeping attackers occupied longer. Potential downsides to the declaration are also outlined. The summary aims to foster trust and understanding in AI content…

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  • Drop #411 (2024-01-30): Typography Tuesday

    This post delves into the technical aspects of fonts, featuring Ange Albertini’s font dissection work, the birth of font file formats, and the innovative typefaces from Swiss Typefaces. It highlights the meticulous process of creating a new font format, involving collaboration and promotion for widespread adoption. Swiss Typefaces offers trial versions of their fonts in…

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  • Drop #401 (2024-01-09): Typography Tuesday

    The post introduces the serif font “Crimson” and its design intention to serve as a workhorse for book production, alongside the “36 Days of Type” challenge and the browser extension “Font Finder.” The challenge, created in 2014, involves daily design challenges around typography and graphic design, while Font Finder allows users to analyze and adjust…

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