I need to start indexing typefaces I like, if only so I can find them again. This is just a start.
	
	
      
	
	
Extensive!
	
Well-curated
	
A foundry making faces for stuff like comics with other applications
	
A short index of 
	
	
	
A huge family
	
Created by the Google Fonts team
	
Has just a hint of the Future Of The Past
	
	
The sans serif which is always there for you
	
The serif’d face for use on screens which is always there for you
	
A versatile & nifty family of monospaced fonts 
	
A sophisticated family of fonts for coding
	
The perennial face for people who have graduated from Helvetica
	
A “bread-and-butter” serif’d face
	
I use these in UX design wireframes to underline that they are sketchy
	
Squiggles instead of text
	
	
Turns text into squiggles or blocks suggestive of words; includes a range of weights
	
Turns text into rougher squiggles suggestive of words
	
Turns text into plain strokes
	
Turns text into chunky blocks
	
Handwriting-ish faces suggesting sketchiness
	
	
A serif’d face for comics which has both bold and italics for when one needs to show examples of real copy while still hinting at sketchiness
	
A slightly whimsical face which implies a neat but unfinished sketch
	
A less janky descendent of Comic Sans, for that “do not take this seriously” feeling
	
	
A facsimile of an elegant early 20
th century face. Evidently they fished the original typeset out of the Thames.
	
A nifty wayfinding font influenced by science fiction movies.
	
A serif face with a lot of weights and a distinctive chunky character
	
A sans serif face designed for accessibility
	
A fancy pseudo-arcane face I like to use in 
game materials.
	
A serif’d face with just a bit of character
	
An eccentric face designed to support dyslexics
	
A deliberately janky-unto-scary face which is surprisingly readable which I used for character sheets for a 
TTRPG about insomniacs
	
A very legible face which resembles handrwriting
	
A blocky face evocative of science fiction movies
	
A family of numerals that look like segmented displays and 
nixie tubes
      
	
	
	
Useful icons
	
Useful icons
	
An easy way to make hex grids
	
An easy way to draw rayguns & rockets
	
An easy way to draw zepplins and steampunk spaceships
	
A few key glyphs for the TTRPG
	
	
A tool for handling fonts’ special characters
	
A tool for surveying & organizing one’s fonts; included with a 
SetApp subscription, which I recommend to all Mac users
	
	
An article about the show’s production design with an interesting word about how no, that is 
not Helvetica.
	
A game-like tool for exercising kerning skill
	
A fun collection of commentaries & resources about the joke term “keming” to refer to bad kerning.
      
 
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