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What’s your type? See how fonts change the way you read and write by l3x

You make font choices every day. You pick type designs each time you use a word processor, read an e-book, send an email, prepare a presentation, craft a wedding invite and make an Instagram story.It might seem like just a question of style, but research reveals fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how

ByHackTechJune 28, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: Is “Noto” fonts and “No More Tofu” is unintentional racist? by asiachick

Some of you will see it and most probably wont but you can see sites like this https://represent.uk.com/blog/no-more-tofu/ with giant “No More Tofu” and Google's own “Noto” fonts named Noto as in “No Tofu”You might not see that as racsist but as an example, lets say there was a design movement that wants no web…

ByHackTechApril 19, 20220Comments

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Go Fonts by jonpalmisc

Nigel Tao, Chuck Bigelow, and Rob Pike 16 November 2016 An Announcement The experimental user interface toolkit being built at golang.org/x/exp/shiny includes several text elements, but there is a problem with testing them: What font should be used? Answering this question led us to today’s announcement, the release of a family of high-quality WGL4 TrueType…

ByHackTechApril 19, 20220Comments

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Did You Know Fonts Could Do All This? by jcelerier

Freetype, included in the font stack on Unix, is quite complex. There are so many layers to get it to do what it does that it’s easy to get lost. From finding the font, to actually rendering it, and everything in between. Like most of the world, I use a rather low screens definition (1366×768…

ByHackTechDecember 31, 20210Comments

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