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I run @HEX@typo.social where I make fonts and websites.
@FontsInUse@typo.social co-founder and designer.
@Typographics@typo.social designer and developer.
@coopertype@typo.social and MassArt graduate.
Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @Minni.
📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
If you hadn’t seen it already, the design and preliminary website for this year’s @Typographics@typo.social festival launched recently. It will continue evolving over the coming weeks but the full list of conference speakers is already posted.
https://2026.typographics.com
My design for the branding and website this year was inspired by these construction barriers in the NYC subway. The fonts are Dual Casual (from @genramirez@typo.social) and Owners (from @mckltype@typo.social).
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
Want to make your website’s cookie consent popups more annoying than they already are? Just add some cutesy puns about the term “cookies”.
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I guess the moral of the story is that using “production” to refer to the final product of making fonts is confusing to a lot of people (especially people who aren’t familiar with the use of “production” in other kinds of software development) and maybe should just be avoided altogether when formally referring to any stage of the process.
I like “development” (to refer to the development stage) and “final” (to refer to the final output), but almost anything seems better than “production” (for either / any / all stages).
Something like “binary” could also work for the final output, but that’s also not the most intuitive for people who aren’t as familiar with software development.
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
❝ … it’s like eating the part of the burrito that is only rice.❞
Once again, @djrrb@mastodon.social does an excellent job writing in plain language about the sometimes complex considerations involved when making and using fonts. And once again he releases a fun new typeface for the Font of the Month Club that is easily worth the cost of admission:
https://djr.com/notes/buckridge-font-of-the-month
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
If you missed it before, you really should check out the newly revised version of @jackusine@typo.social’s Jules Vernacular website, with over 1,700 examples of mind-bendingly cool / weird / fun / unique French lettering.
I’ve scrolled through all the entries multiple times and it’s now one of my favorite websites:
https://vernacular.fr
(You can subscribe to new entries via RSS too.)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
The other day @btuttle@typo.social joked that font licenses should be priced according to CEO salary and I can’t stop thinking about that.
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
In this interactive web demo, @gdc@typo.social shows an alternate method for text justification, called “cogent” or “semi-justified” alignment, where each line is justified if possible within a range of spacing limits, but left-aligned otherwise:
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/semi-justified-text/
Fraser Muggeridge gave a great related talk at @ANRT@typo.social this year, focused on an example from Herbert Bayer:
https://vimeo.com/1059643515
(Unfortunately the video is cut off at the end.)
Does anyone know other examples of this technique in use?
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
Today I learned @MonaApp@mastodon.social allows you to pick custom-installed fonts for the interface of both their desktop and mobile apps. This has been possible for a while but I only learned about it working in the mobile app today.
Naturally I’ve now changed the settings to show everything with fonts I made myself. (Shown here is @HEX@typo.social Franklin.)
If you want to do something like this too, you’ll have to use an app like iFont or AnyFont to install the fonts in iOS first (and maybe also restart your device).
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
At the @Typographics@typo.social book fair, @ksmallgallery@typo.social has a copy of this Helvetica Plakat poster I posted about before (@nicksherman@typo.social) for $40 and I’m amazed no one has picked it up yet.
@letterformarchive@typo.social also has a very reasonably priced copy of this Lettergieterij Amsterdam specimen book that somehow hasn’t sold yet:
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/nicksherman/item/180968237
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
I run @ HEX where I make fonts and websites. @ FontsInUse co-founder and designer. @ Typographics designer and developer. @ coopertype and MassArt graduate. Fan of monster movies, pizza, loud music, skateboarding, and my dog, @ Minni . 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (previously: Amsterdam, LA, Boston, Cape Cod, Bangkok)
Currently enjoying the 1849 wood type specimen book from Wells & Webb, courtesy of the @RITTigers@mastodon.social digital collections:
https://digitalcollections.rit.edu/luna/servlet/detail/RIT~1~1~909~8726
I especially love the 100 lines pica (i.e. 1200 pt) Condensed Roman specimen where they could only fit one letter across an entire spread.
Kudos to RIT and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection for making such nice images and sharing them publicly.
