Typography

via Danny Lin: More people need to know about the “tabular numbers” feature that modern fonts have. Use it to make numbers to line up with a UI font (or anything not monospace).

via Jason Santa Maria: I keep visual lists of typefaces to browse through when I’m looking for something new to use. It’s mostly an excuse to bookmark ones I know I already like so I can easily find them again.

via Colin M. Ford: Does anyone have a link to original Avenir specimens/materials from ~1987 when it came out? The Fonts In Use page, usually my go-to for stuff like this, does not have any images linked, and when I search anywhere the results are just flooded with Typography 1 class assignments.

via kottke.org: Sweden Sans is the national typeface of Sweden and is available to download (not sure about the usage rights tho).

via Dan Reynolds: Most designers I know love the West Berlin street sign lettering. It isn’t clear to me how much evidence researchers have found regarding its design and attribution. Last week I found a print from Ludwig Goller’s correspondence in the DIN Archive at the Deutsches Technikmuseum attributing the letters to Herbert Thannhäuser. This print is kept in SDTB I.3.015 DIN-Archiv 307/1.

via Daring Fireball: Hoefler’s Proof for Testing Fonts