A brief history of Times New Roman
https://typographyforlawyers.com/a-brief-history-of-times-new-roman.html
#HackerNews #TimesNewRoman #Typography #History #Design #Fonts
Joachim
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Risograph printed type specimens and BFF Font Packs are available online! The Font Packs include a USB card loaded with font files, a valid commercial license for 1-2 employee companies, and some stickers all for $5 more than a digital license (crazy deal).
Great gift for the font loving freak in your life! Or yourself!
Risograph specimen for Discotack. Text reads "Never lose the groove to find a note (Victor Wooten)" in purple ink with a light pink capital D overlaid.
Risograph specimen for Gayot New. Text reads "the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you (Neil Degrass Tyson)" in teal ink with a large capital A in lime green ink overlaid.
Big Fog Foundry's font pack in a plastic 5"x7" polybag.
alcinnz
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have always hated Times New Roman, deeply, passionately.
back in my desktop publishing days ―days when we were constrained to whatever came with the computer and later to bought floppy disks and cds for a handful of custom #fonts―, i switched to Garamond for the serif; limited to titles, quotes & emphasis. for the body, it was first Arial, then Helvetica in all their weights.
these days though, am team Roboto in all its faces. GoogleFonts is the only good remaining at that company…
Google Releases Its New Google Sans Flex Font as Open Source
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/google-sans-flex-font-ubuntu
#HackerNews #GoogleSansFlex #OpenSource #Typography #Design #Fonts
Alex, the Hearth Fire
and 9 others
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I just finished the Pepper&Carrot new page for sharing our Fonts!
A decade ago, libre comic fonts were hard to find, especially with good accent support. So, translators, contributors and I edited and maintained our own to fill the gap.
Check them out: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/fonts/index.html
Risograph printed type specimens and BFF Font Packs are available online! The Font Packs include a USB card loaded with font files, a valid commercial license for 1-2 employee companies, and some stickers all for $5 more than a digital license (crazy deal).
Great gift for the font loving freak in your life! Or yourself!
Risograph specimen for Discotack. Text reads "Never lose the groove to find a note (Victor Wooten)" in purple ink with a light pink capital D overlaid.
Risograph specimen for Gayot New. Text reads "the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you (Neil Degrass Tyson)" in teal ink with a large capital A in lime green ink overlaid.
Big Fog Foundry's font pack in a plastic 5"x7" polybag.
have always hated Times New Roman, deeply, passionately.
back in my desktop publishing days ―days when we were constrained to whatever came with the computer and later to bought floppy disks and cds for a handful of custom #fonts―, i switched to Garamond for the serif; limited to titles, quotes & emphasis. for the body, it was first Arial, then Helvetica in all their weights.
these days though, am team Roboto in all its faces. GoogleFonts is the only good remaining at that company…
Called “Marco Rubio”, perceived as Comic Sans..
#calibri #fonts #timesnewroman
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html
Day 9 of Advent of Type brings a font i've mentioned before but have now renamed Peter (it sits alongside Clive forming the "boring man-names" collection). It's Pellucida (from Plan 9) with Peter's face as the pixel (that's Peter J. Weinberger). At U+2400 is SYMBOL FOR NUL which in this Pellucida is a tiny version of Peter's face.
Download from https://drj11.itch.io/advent-of-type-2025 and please Boost!
#AdventOfType #AdventOfType2025 #Fonts #RetroComputing #Plan9
"Advent of Type" in green-on-black pixelly letters.
A pixelly face, in green on black. Closer inspection reveals that each pixel is a tiny, but detailed, two-colour image of Peter J. Weinberger.
I just finished the Pepper&Carrot new page for sharing our Fonts!
A decade ago, libre comic fonts were hard to find, especially with good accent support. So, translators, contributors and I edited and maintained our own to fill the gap.
Check them out: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/fonts/index.html