fonts.md

Fonts

My current favorite font for programming is JetBrains Mono. I use it for VS Code and iTerm.

I use Fira Code for Sublime Text. And I love the default San Francisco Apple font for use in everything else.

Interesting fonts

• Inconsolata
• Inter - Typeface specially designed for user interfaces with focus on high legibility of small-to-medium sized text on computer screens.
• Public Sans - Strong, neutral, principles-driven, open source typeface for text or display.
• Cascadia Code - Fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.
• Leon Sans - Geometric sans-serif typeface made with code in 2019 by Jongmin Kim.
• Codeface - Typefaces for source code beautification.
• JetBrains Mono - Typeface for Developers. (HN) (Code) (Lobsters)
• Iosevka - Slender typeface for code, from code. (HN) (Web)
• Victor Mono (Code)
• Noto - Font for all the world's languages.
• Cozette - Bitmap programming font optimized for coziness.
• Jost
• MonoLisa
• Recursive Sans & Mono - Variable font family for code & UI. (Code)
• Baudelaire - Modern transitional serif typeface.
• Fira Sans - Mozilla's new typeface, used in Firefox OS. (Code)
• Sohne
• Free variable writing fonts from iA
• Sparks - Typeface for creating sparklines in text without code.
• BLOKK - Gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum.
• Scunthorpe Sans - Self-censoring font. (HN)
• Amstelvar - Parametric variable font by David Berlow. (Code)
• Monaco
• Cardo
• Raleway
• Noway
• Entypo
• Space Grotesk - Florian Karsten Typefaces. (Code)
• Florian Karsten Typefaces
• PragmataPro - Coding font designed by Fabrizio Schiavi.
• OpenDyslexic - Typeface for Dyslexia. (HN)
• Moneta
• 3270font - Font for the Nostalgic. (HN)
• Last Resort - Special-purpose font that includes a collection of glyphs to represent types of Unicode characters. (HN)
• JuliaMono - Monospaced font for scientific and technical computing. (HN) (Code) (Article)
• Josefin Sans - Idea for creating this typeface was to make it geometric, elegant and kind of vintage, especially for titling.
• Titillium Web Variable Fonts
• Bungee - Chromatic signage typeface for vertical and horizontal setting. (Web)
• Quicksand
• Bitmap fonts for humans
• Butler - Free serif font inspired by a mix between both Dala Floda & the amazing Bodoni family.
• Montserrat
• Libre Franklin

Links

• Typewolf - What's trending in type. (Site of the day)
• Google Fonts
• Programming Fonts - Test drive over 50 free programming fonts.
• Guide to Only the Best Open-Source Typefaces
• Inter typeface family
• Google Noto Fonts
• The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
• Fabrizio Schiavi - Multidisciplinary designer with skill in typography.
• Rubrication Design Examples
• Google Web Fonts Helper - Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. (Code)
• 50 free handwriting fonts (2020)
• Crafting the Airbnb Cereal Typeface (2018)
• Visual Overview of Typography
• Thinking With Type - Book on Typography.
• The Raster Tragegy and Low Resolution
• FontGoggles - Font viewer for various font formats. It is a desktop application for macOS. (Code)
• I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next - Marcin Wichary (2020)
• Variable Fonts Primer
• sfsymbols - Export the shapes in the SF Symbols font.
• Fonts In Use - Independent archive of typography.
• Awesome Typography
• Type Specimens
• Type Studies
• Practical Typography
• Showcase of OpenType Features (Code)
• monospacifier.py - Great way to increase the Unicode coverage of your favorite programming font.
• Chrome Detect Font - Easily see which fonts are in use.
• Font Bakery - Command-line tool for checking the quality of font projects.
• Typelab - Type design service offering design software and bespoke type design for diverse clients.
• OH no Type - Oakland based type foundry.
• An Introduction to Variable Fonts (2019)
• v-fonts - Simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts.
• Variable Emojis
• YouTube Sans: The Making of a Typeface (2020)
• Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers (2020) (HN)
• The best totally free web fonts & typefaces (2020)
• Samsa - Variable font inspector. (Code)
• Axis-Praxis - Website for playing with OpenType Variable Fonts
• TinySDF - Browser-side SDF font generator. (Code)
• From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography (2017)
• The Future of Text Book: 2020 Vision Book
• Future Of Text
• How to pick different font sizes that look good together
• Font Picker - Font selector component for Google Fonts.
• Advice on improving typesetting on websites
• xz/fonts - Break your users from unethical tracking networks. xz/fonts delivers exclusively open-source fonts through Vercel's impossibly fast CDN. (Code)
• Text for Proofing Fonts
• The Fastest Google Fonts (2020) (HN)
• Jaimey Shapey's typography
• Zach Leatherman | The Five Whys of Web Font Loading Performance (2018)
• Pop Culture Typography (2018)
• Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO)
• Typography.js - Powerful toolkit for building websites with beautiful design.
• Awesome Mac OS Catalina fonts you didn’t know you had access to (2020)
• ttf-parser - High-level, safe, zero-allocation TrueType font parser. Can be used as Rust and as C library.
• FontEdit - Desktop app to import, edit and export fonts as byte arrays for use in embedded systems. (HN)
• Open Sauce Fonts - Font super family that I developed for Creative Sauce's internal type system.
• Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (HN)
• Python+FontForge+Org: I made a font based on my handwriting! (2020)
• What’s In A Font? Researching Website Typography (2020)
• font-kit - Cross-platform font loading library written in Rust.
• Helvetica - Documentary on typography, graphic design and global visual culture. (HN)
• Local Font Access Explained - Web API for enumerating fonts on the local system.
• HarfBuzz - Text shaping library.
• rustybuzz - Incremental harfbuzz port to Rust.
• Font Stash - Light-weight online font texture atlas builder.
• Grammar of Typography: Classical Design in the Digital Age
• Introducing Fontcase (2020)
• Webfont Handbook - From selection to optimization, learn how to make the web a more visually diverse, efficient, and readable environment.
• Runebender - Font editor written in Rust.
• Why not just use bitmap fonts? (2020) (Lobsters)
• Wikimedia FontCDN - Anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts. (HN)
• 99 Font Pairings & Typeface Combinations
• Capsize - Flipping how we define typography in CSS.
• Embedded Google Fonts (Code)
• Once Upon a Type
• Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting (2020) - How an emerging CSS standard can fix old problems and raise the bar for web apps.
• Cap height - Calculate the cap height of fonts loaded with Web Font Loader.
• Use advanced typography with local fonts (2020)
• Signifier design information (2020)
• ztext.js - 3D Typography for the Web.
• Did You Know Fonts Could Do All This? (2020) (Lobsters)
• macOS-like fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux (2020) (HN)
• When fonts fall (2020) (HN)
• Design Class – Web Typography
• typespiration.com - Showcase of web typography designs with ready-to-use CSS codes.
• Fontsource - Updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages.
• Beautiful and Effective Web Typography: An Interview with Richard Rutter (2020)
• Web Font Loader - Gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face.
• Font Variation Description - Compact and unambiguous way to describe a font in CSS.
• Adobe Fonts - Quality fonts at your fingertips.
• Font engineering tools - Collection of font engineering utilities.
• Type Thursday - Global type superfamily converges monthly to help one another improve our letterforms over drinks.
• Font of the Month Club - Get a fresh new font delivered to your inbox every single month.
• Coding Fonts - Microsite that shows off fonts designed for writing code. (Code)
• The good line-height - Create a type scale following an 8 point baseline grid, or any grid.
• Type Scale - Visual Type Scale Calculator. (Code)
• Site-Speed Topography (2020)
• Monotype - Font & Technology Specialists.