Awesome Typeface Mechanics series.
Below are just the first two episodes; search the above link for more.
I bumped into this via
In which we / I learn where the ‘x’ in ‘x-height’ comes from – Kirill Grouchnikov – Google+
–jeroen
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The Typeface Mechanics series by Frere Jones is genius!
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/25
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belluzj/fantasque-sans: A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/11
On my list of mono-spaced programmer fonts to try (and see how it compares to my beloved [Wayback] Lucida Console):
[Wayback] fantasque-sans – A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers (yes I know it was called Comic Sans Neue Mono, but don’t extend your Comic Sans hatred there).
Source: [Wayback] Fantasque Sans Mono:
Fantasque Sans Mono: A programming font, designed with functionality in mind, and with some wibbly-wobbly handwriting-like fuzziness that makes it unassumingly cool. Development hosted on Github: [Wayback] https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans OFL (SIL Open Font License). Category: Monospaced
Via: Ein Font für Ruby on Rails-Entwickler: Comic Sans Neue Mono – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Another font on that list is [Wayback/Archive.is] Hack where I have to do a bit work on fiddling with line spacing.
These are for my TODO:
- [Wayback] Hack hinting for horizontal stems broken when connecting over Remote Desktop connections. · Issue #145 · chrissimpkins/Hack
- [Wayback] Line spacing could be optimised further · Issue #146 · chrissimpkins/Hack
- [Wayback] Hack does not show up in the font list for Windows command-prompt · Issue #147 · chrissimpkins/Hack
–jeroen
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Powershell 4.0 hates Lucida Console and switches to raster fonts
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/25
PowerShell 4.0 is madly in love with “English (United States)”
A long time ago I started writing up my blog post like this in March 2015 when I bumped into this the first time when upgrading from PowerShell 2 to PowerShell 4:
It seems there is no real workaround:
- [No wayback: Microsoft Connect got ditched] Powershell 4 console font issue | Microsoft Connect.
- [Wayback] Cannot change powershell default font to Lucida Console – Super User.
- [No wayback: Microsoft Connect got ditched] Console host does not allow font adjustment in V3 | Microsoft Connect.
Good and not so good news: after reading the below linked posts, this is what works:
- PowerShell 4 and up works fine with any [Wayback] Lucida Console size (including 12) and boldness
- only when the “Language for non-Unicode programs” is set to “English (United States)”.
- PowerShell 4 works fine with [Wayback] Consolas on any size and boldness
- for any “Language for non-Unicode programs”
So if you’re like me and switch between “Dutch (Netherlands)” and “English (Ireland)” a lot (both use the EURO as currency, but have distinct enough other locale settings to cover a lot of European stuff) then you need to get used to the Consolas font.
Source:
- [Wayback] Setting the font of a PowerShell console to Lucida Console won’t work | Emil’s Lost & Found Archive
- [Wayback] Unable to set the default PowerShell font to Lucida Console – markwilson.it
Edit 20210930: a possible solution
I need to fire up some old systems having PowerShell v3 or v4 on them to test the below possible solution.
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Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to design fonts and write smartphone apps • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Mac SE/30’s nine-inch screen is ideal for font-wrangling, says dev, 16Mhz 68030 not so much
Wow, back in the days I used Fontographer too, at a client that also used Ikarus, but on even older Mac hardware. But that was early 1990s (:
–jeroen
Source: Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to write smartphone apps • The Register
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Recommende for font enthousiast: Bigelow & Holmes – How and Why We Designed Lucida
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/21
I absolutely love the Lucida family of fonts, and wrote about Bigelow and Holmes before in my font and typography categories.
So I’m glad I bumped (thanks Kristian!) into the Bigelow and Holmes blog (and Lucida fonts store), that recently published this article:
Recommended reading for font lovers.
And while we are at it, a few more interesting reads on typography history:
- Pete Bella » Typedesigner Interview with Chuck Bigelow of Bigelow & Holmes.
- I Love Typography » Blog Archive History of typography: Humanist — I Love Typography.
- I Love Typography » Blog Archive History of typography: Old Style — I Love Typography.
- I Love Typography » Blog Archive History of typography: Transitional — I Love Typography.
- I Love Typography » Blog Archive A Brief History of Type — I Love Typography.
- I Love Typography » Blog Archive A Brief History of Type—Part 5 — I Love Typography.
- Typeface – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Classification: Sans-serif – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
–jeroen
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Why IKEA’s font switch from Futura to Verdana mattered (via: National Post)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/14
The point made by Simson Garfield below reminds me I haven’t been at IKEA for a long long while (:
Verdana was everywhere, and now it was in one more place. It was becoming a non-font that we don’t even register. Which is precisely why it was so effective, and exactly why it was chosen.
--jeroen
via: Why IKEA’s font switch from Futura to Verdana mattered | National Post.
PS: for people that also missed it and want to see the differences:
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Hand Lettered Type Anatomy | hand lettering by seanwes
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/16
If you ever get into Typography. Or just love beautiful things.
Hand Lettered Type Anatomy | hand lettering by seanwes.
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Taking A Second Look At Free Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
Indeed, many free fonts have improved a lot over the years.
Taking A Second Look At Free Fonts | Smashing Magazine.
–jeroen
via: JWildeBoer on G+.
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Google Fonts
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/17
Nice: Google Fonts. They started their own Font CDN.
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K-Type Independent Type Foundry » Freebies
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/31
Yes, I’m a font addict (:
K-Type Independent Type Foundry » Freebies.
Most of their fonts have at least one style that is a Freebie for non-commercial use too, a great way to experiment with some of their fonts: Read the rest of this entry »
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 