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Past Editions
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Edition 32
June ’21
Anderson Grotesk is the featured font, we take a look at pairing fonts, optical size in variable fonts, I ❤️ NY and more.
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Edition 31
June ’21
Rubik is the featured font, we take a look at using only 5 fonts, font best practices and typography in watches.
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Edition 3
May ’21
Hauora Sans is the featured font, we take a look at replacing Calibri, font tracking and kerning for caps and Indeed’s new custom typeface.
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Edition 29
April ’21
Kulim Park is the featured font, we take a look at free font alternatives, font loading strategies, and a case study of selecting fonts.
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Edition 28
March ’21
Bodoni Moda is the featured font, we take a look at font feelings, system fonts, and fluid type.
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Edition 27
February ’21
Libre Baskerville is the featured font, we take a look at a dictionary of typography, Twitter’s new custom typeface, uniwidth typefaces and the “EA” ligature.
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Edition 26
January ’21
Eb Garamond is the featured font, we take a look at choosing typefaces for app and UI design, 2020 type champions and a couple of tools.
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Edition 25
October ’20
Piazzolla is the featured font, we take a look at a Futura Now, Wix’s custom typeface Madefor, font fallbacks and Wikipedia’s new look.
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Edition 23
August ’20
League Mono is the featured font, we take a look at getting the most out of Google variable fonts, modern CSS techniques for improving legibility and Gill Sans.
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Edition 22
July ’20
Lora is the featured font, we take a look Cooper Black and why it’s everywhere, as well as fonts in politics (again) and UI typography.
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Edition 21
June ’20
Scunthorpe Sans is the featured font, we take a look at using fonts for complex data, as well as micro typography, font combinations, how fonts influence us, and fonts in popular things.
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Edition 2
May ’20
Scunthorpe Sans is the featured font, we take a look at using fonts for complex data, as well as micro typography, font combinations, how fonts influence us, and fonts in popular things.
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Edition 19
April ’20
Source Serif is the featured font, we take a look at how variable fonts should be prepared and used on the web as well as why some companies decide to Open Source their fonts.
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Edition 18
March ’20
Noto Sans is the featured font, we take a look at many articles about variable fonts, the main one is about their performance compared to standard fonts.
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Edition 17
February ’20
Public Sans is the featured font, we take a look at 5 monospaced fonts with cool coding ligatures and how type affects politics.
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Edition 16
January ’20
JetBrains Mono is the featured font, we take a look at when does it make sense to preload fonts, font licensing, how to test the readability of a text and a short history of body font sizes on the web.
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Edition 15
November ’19
Hellvetica is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at typographic illusions, accessible dropcaps as well as words and phrases that originated in the field of typography.
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Edition 14
October ’19
Apple’s New York is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at the Figma’s new support for OpenType, Google’s support for variable fonts and the story behind the creation of the Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface.
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Edition 13
September ’19
Leon Sans is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at the making of Figma’s Inter UI, variable fonts and animations, as well as some cool cat fonts.
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Edition 12
August ’19
Omega Sans is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at recognising font styles, dynamic type in Airbnb apps and typography in design systems.
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Edition 11
July ’19
Gangster Grotesk is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at using vertical rhythm in Sketch, optimizing Google Fonts performance and the new font loading strategy for CSS Tricks.
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Edition 1
June ’19
Silka is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at the state of fluid web typography, Alibaba Sans and how Gotham took over the world.
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Edition 9
May ’19
Moon 2.0 is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at articles about line height in Figma, variable fonts and stories behind some classic typefaces.
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Edition 8
April ’19
Cooper Hewitt is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at articles about font metrics, interface typography and typography in design systems.
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Edition 7
March ’19
League Spartan is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at making Google fonts load faster and more CSS typographic experiments.
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Edition 6
February ’19
Reno Mono is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at Typetura—a new tool for fluid web typography and pure CSS lettering experiments.
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Edition 5
January ’19
Marvin Visions is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at how AirBnb introduced a custom typeface to their UI and the difference between variable and parametric fonts.
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Edition 4
December ’18
Optician Sans is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at improving the performance of web font loading subsetting numerals.
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Edition 3
November ’18
Times Newer Roman is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at articles about mastering typography in Sketch.
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Edition 2
October ’18
Inter UI from Figma is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at a demo of CSS OpenType features and typesetting in text rendering in Sketch.
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Edition 1
September ’18
Space Grotesq is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at fonts people actually use, OpenSource fonts, and articles about variable fonts.
