Following the tradition established in 2022, I am presenting here an overview of some interesting new open-source typefaces that were published on the Google Fonts platform in 2023. I am listing them in the chronologic order of publication. Commissioner Commissioner by Kostas Bartsokas is is a low-contrast humanist sans-serif with almost classical proportions. It is…
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Google Fonts of 2023 – Part 1
Following the tradition established in 2022, I am presenting here an overview of some interesting new open-source typefaces that were published on the Google Fonts platform in 2023. In this first part, we look at fonts released from February to March 2023. Martian Mono Martian Mono, released in February 2023, is a monospaced version of…
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Using the Microsoft online tools (Teams, OneDrive, Word…) with my colleagues and students, I am often facing the choice of flying with the default typeface, or selecting another one among the fonts proposed by the platform. Every now and then, I spot some new additions in that font menu, such as two years ago (in…
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In this post, I’m attempting a retrospective of the interesting things – new fonts! – that where published by the Google Fonts project throughout the year 2022. 1. Outfit It started in January with the release of Outfit, a geometric sans available as a variable font. Designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida, a designer from Santiago, Chile,…
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Voici quelques liens en rapport avec ma présentation donnée aujourd’hui à la journée WordPress. Les slides: Des infos sur l’intégration des webfonts, dans mon site “support de cours”:cours-web.ch/typo/ Un exemple d’extension qui fait deux choses– Charger une fonte custom (dans ce cas précis, Infini).– Désactiver la fonte du thème. Lien: github.com/eracom/infini-pour-deppo PS: des photos de…
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Quelques liens relatifs à la présentation du cours de cet après-midi à l’Ecole d’Arts Appliqués La Chaux-de-Fonds, autour de la typographie libre: L’éditeur FontForge: http://fontforge.github.io/ Les workshops de Dave Crossland: http://craftingtype.com/ Événements (typo)graphiques durant l’été 2014: Tag der Schrift le 14 juin, à Zurich Présentation de Metapolator http://www.tagderschrift.org/ À Bruxelles, l’académie d’été du collectif OSP…
Read more "Fontes libres – quelques liens"Libre Type Specimens
Creation of a type specimen book showcasing 200+ free and open source fonts, made in five days with students of HEAD – Geneva. January 2013.
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Karmilla: a friendly fork of Karla
A derivate of the Karla webfont, with extra glyphs for the support of French language.
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libre fonts @ RMLL 2012
A talk about the libre/open-source typography ecosystem, given at the 13th RMLL meeting in Geneva. In French. July 2012.
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