Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #452: Calibri.
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#calibri #typeface #fonts #msoffice #microsoft #microsoftoffice #forgery #panamapapers #thepanamapapers #fake #justice #law #legal #webcomics #comics #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Tired of the same old #fonts?
In the past seven days, we added 64 new Uses to the Collection at https://fontsinuse.com.
Between those, 28 #typefaces were documented for the first time.
These debutants include old and new designs. Intrigue and Magister go back to the 1960s. Some incl. Aconchego, Grez, Hublot, Terza Display, and Tid came out in the past 12 months. Yet again others are unreleased (EB George) or proprietary (Haut-Bailly, TR Supply Gaskessel, Sommerro Sans).
“Not focused on legibility” = understatement of the year. I see these #fonts often on items at home decor stores. The whimsical angle is not my thing.
Beyond my particular dislike, though, the fonts also create unintended #accessibility problems.
LZH1 is a splattery #typeface designed by #LizabethBrenner. Letraset competitor #Chartpak selected it as a winner in their 1986 competition and produced it for dry transfer lettering.
Starting in 1989, it was used by hardcore punk band #Integrity. Rafael Nascimento documented this long-time Use:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/69814/integrity-album-art-and-logotype-1989-1995
… which inspired him to do a digital revival of LZH1, under the name Integrity.
A while ago I made a tiny pixel font called Pixuf. The goal was to make it as tiny as I could while keeping it readable. Used it in two of my games.
The font is completely free (CC0), designed for 8, 16, 32 etc font sizes, charset is upper and lowercase ASCII/Latin1.
Hope it's useful to someone!
Interesting thing that the Deluxe Paint system font was proportional, but it didn't have support for descenders.
Staff pick:
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” is an exhibition currently shown at Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. For the typography of the catalog, designers Tino Nyman and Tytti Halonen used Aether Mono (DDOTT), Phonic & Phonic Mono (Schick Toikka) and Exposure Italic (@federico): https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68651/rock-paper-scissors-exhibition-catalog
Good News, Everyone! I solved the problem. I opened Synaptic Package Manager, checked the package dependencies for TeamViewer, and discovered that #TeamViewer on #Linux recommends the Liberation #fonts.
So, I re-enabled them in Font Manager, logged out and in, and launched TeamViewer, and now everything looks the way it should.
Last chance to get 1200 fonts at 90% off from my friends over at @chequeredink - All Fonts Pack https://ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack/devlog/987668/last-chance-to-get-1200-fonts-at-90-off
I have managed to break my #Linux system, because I used Font Manager to deactivate most of the pre-installed #fonts. I despise font cruft.
BUT, that means that the configuration files for the #fontconfig subsystem are not referencing any of the fonts I actually have installed and activated, so when I installed Font Awesome 6 for a particular #Conky config I downloaded, other applications started using Font Awesome as their default font for sans-serif.
Move fast and make #fonts. BrutalTypes.com is coming
Are you into Tom Wolfe? Book cover design? Funky typefaces dating from the 1840s to the 2020s? Then head over to https://fontsinuse.com/tags/14935/tom-wolfe
@fhardwig cleared out his drafts about books by the American author and journalist.
Gongrats to our friends at @futurefonts! Launched in 2018, they pioneered the idea of selling #fonts in progress. These future fonts – created by their community of independent type designers – are now represented with 500+ in-use examples in the #FontsInUse Collection https://fontsinuse.com/sets/3614/future-fonts-1
Grand Central (@frerejonestype) for Grand Central Terminal: 100 Years of a New York Landmark (Anthony W. Robbins, #NewYorkTransitMuseum), via @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/69834/grand-central-terminal-100-years-of-a-new-yor
Just came across WonderType by Clémence Fontaine
https://clemencefontaine.fr/page/wonder.html #fonts
Staff pick: Railtrack and Network Rail identity and signs
In the latest installment of his series concerned with #railway #typography in the UK, James Millner takes a look at the signs used since 1998. They feature a custom #typeface named Brunel, developed by Freda Sack and David Quay.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68927/railtrack-and-network-rail-identity-and-signs