Last week, I covered a monospace font that’s great for print: Inconsolata. This week, it’s time for a good on-screen monospace font, and that comes from one of my favourite font families, Ubuntu. Continue reading “Font of the Week(end): Ubuntu Mono”
Category: Font of the Week
I’m a font maniac. A very fussy one.
A while ago, I used to run this weekly feature called ‘Font of the Week’, where I talked about the font’s peculiarities, how and where it can be used, and maybe some background info. Here’s my little collection.
Font of the Week: Inconsolata
I promised last week that I’d do a monospace font this week, and here it is! Continue reading “Font of the Week: Inconsolata”
Font of the Week: Fira Sans
In a time when Firefox OS is growing adolescent, I take the opportunity to introduce you to its default font: Fira Sans. Continue reading “Font of the Week: Fira Sans”
Font of the Week: Open Sans
Open Sans is so ubiquitous that you’re not a real designer if you haven’t heard of it. But if you actually aren’t, congrats! Now you know about one of the most versatile fonts of the decade. Continue reading “Font of the Week: Open Sans”
Font of the Week: Merriweather
I first discovered Merriweather when The Daily Post revamped their design. Since then, I believe in love at first sight. It’s become my favourite serif font, besides Liberation Serif and Bitter. The best thing about Merriweather is its top-notch readability. It looks gorgeous everywhere from web pages to printed documents. Continue reading “Font of the Week: Merriweather”
Font of the Week: Oxygen
There’s this font which has created quite a buzz among the design geeks these days: Oxygen, from (who else?) KDE! Continue reading “Font of the Week: Oxygen”
A Simple Classification of Fonts
A classification of any kind usually differs from author to author. This also applies to fonts, which is vaster a field than it might seem to the beginner. Here, I provide a simple categorization of fonts into five major classes. Continue reading “A Simple Classification of Fonts”
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