Playing with type

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Written By Brian Krogsgard

7 thoughts on “Playing with type”

  1. Are you familiar with Brick.im? They have a variety of common fonts, but they contain more stylistic flourishes than the condensed fonts hosted by Google Fonts; this results in bigger file sizes, but the fonts look nicer.

  2. I am one of these people. I find it very difficult to match ‘typography’ types. In fact, I just called them ‘letter styles’ or ‘decorations’ until I found out the proper gloss…which was just now. I would have a hard time choosing which shirt goes with which pair of pants, tie, belt…etc, if they didn’t actually sell complete ensembles in a single box. Even then, I have to trust someone else judgement that it looks right.

    Thanks for the insight. Very informative. I have gained a curiosity in the philosophy of typography.

  3. Another important thing that most font providers have, but people tend to ignore, is language subsetting. Once you have chosen your font, just include the group of characters you *really* need. For example a really popular font like Proxima Nova weighs 350kb in Typekit by default but if you choose just the English characters it goes down to 73kb.

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