Fonts

Fonts to keep an eye on.

Apparently, Baskerville is a trustworthy font. See #Articles below. (Thanks to André David (Twitter) for the pointing me to these.) Baskervald is an alternative available with TeX.

Texts on fonts/typography

Articles

• Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (Part 1), Errol Morris – Wayback archive from 2020-02-17
• How fonts influence users’ perception of your product, Design at IBM – Wayback archive from 2020-02-17
  • Warning: hosted on Medium
• The Doves Type® – I learnt about it at a recording of The Allusionist in Bristol
• Font activations: A note on the type
• Articles by Lino Ferreira
  • My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (part I) – and the Hacker News discussion
  • My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (part II)

Books

• Practical Typography, Matthew Butterick
  • Available to read for free on the Web, but payment is recommended
• User Interface Typography, Alex Baranov
  • Available to read for free on the Web

Free fonts

• Reforma – Need to register to download
  • The story of Reforma
• PolarSys B612
  • Designed for Airbus for legibility on cockpit screens.
  • Available on Ubuntu with apt get install fonts-b612.
• Routed Gothic
• Iosevka · GitHub page – I have defaulted to using this font, specifically the Iosevka Fixed SS05 Light Extended variant.
• Atkinson Hyperlegible – Has reasonable EULA
• Junicode – Font for medievalists! Looks really pretty.
• Old Timey Mono – Looks quite nice!
• Kelmscott Mono – A blackletter for text editors! Love this.
  • Via the Fediverse

Foundries

• PampaType, Argentina
• Huerta Tipográfica, Argentina
• Latinotype, Chile
• The League of Moveable Type