I need to start indexing typefaces I like, if only so I can find them again. This is just a start.
Indices
Extensive!
Well-curated
A foundry making faces for stuff like comics with other applications
Faces
Big free families
A huge family
Created by the Google Fonts team
Has just a hint of the Future Of The Past
Workhorses
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
For sketches
I use these in UX design wireframes to underline that they are sketchy
Turns words into squiggles suggestive of words
Turns words into plain strokes suggestive of words
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
Interesting
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
Font tools for games
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
About type
An article about the show’s production design with an interesting word about how no, that is
not Helvetica
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