‘typography’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “Design Graveyard ”, Gwern 2010
- “Subscripts For Citations ”, Gwern 2020
- “Utext: Rich Unicode Documents ”, Gwern 2023
- “A/B Testing Indentation & Justification ”, Gwern 2022
- “Who Buys Fonts? ”, Gwern 2021
- “Design Of This Website ”, Gwern 2010
- “Sidenotes In Web Design ”, Gwern 2020
- “Lorem Ipsum ”, Gwern 2020
- “A/B Testing Long-Form Readability on Gwern.net ”, Gwern 2012
- “Fake Journal Club: Teaching Critical Reading ”, Gwern 2022
- “Rare Greek Variables ”, Gwern 2021
- “Auto-Smallcaps Filter ”, Gwern 2020
- Links
- “Remaking of ‘The New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram’ ”, Rougeux 2025
- “Emuru: Zero-Shot Styled Text Image Generation, but Make It Autoregressive ”, Pippi et al 2025
- “Kerning, the Hard Way ”, Jones 2025
- “Gorton: The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan ”, Wichary 2025
- “OpenAI Unveils Its First Ever Rebrand: A New Typeface, Word Mark, Symbol and Palette Underpin All the Ways in Which OpenAI’s Technology Interacts With the Real World ”, Bell 2025
- “Visual Theory of Mind Enables the Invention of Proto-Writing ”, Spiegel et al 2025
- “Walmart Introduces Updated Look and Feel: A Testament to Heritage and Innovation ”
- “Won’t versus Can’t: Sandbagging-Like Behavior from Claude Models ”
- “Stega-Encoding [Embedding Metadata in Apps With Unicode Steganography] ”, Sanity 2024
- “Invisible Unicode Text That AI Chatbots Understand and Humans Can’t? Yep, It’s a Thing ”
- “My Dead Father Is ‘Writing’ Me Notes Again ”
- “The Monospace Web: A Minimalist Design Exploration ”, Wickström 2024
- “How Elon Musk Got Tangled Up in Blue § Homoglyph Attack ”, Mac & Conger 2024
- “
handwriter.ttf: Handwriting Synthesis With Harfbuzz WASM ”, Jingyi 2024 - “Fonts Hanging Out ”, Cordova 2024
- “
ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-Based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs ”, Jiang et al 2024 - “FontDiffuser: One-Shot Font Generation via Denoising Diffusion With Multi-Scale Content Aggregation and Style Contrastive Learning ”, Yang et al 2023
- “StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images ”, Rodriguez et al 2023
- “The LessWrong 2022 Review § Cost of Book Production ”, Habryka 2023
- “Evolving the Reddit Brand: A More Accessible, Bespoke Typography, New Conversation Bubbles and Colors, and a New Snoo Logo—Now With Opposable Thumbs! ”, Reddit 2023
- “TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the Power of Language Models for Text Rendering ”, Chen et al 2023
- “AnyText: Multilingual Visual Text Generation And Editing ”, Tuo et al 2023
- “HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype ”, Gould & Tan 2023
- “‘The Uniformity of a Distinctive National Character’: Loops, Knots, and Bernardo De Gálvez’s Calligraphic Equestrian Portrait ”, Hyman 2023
- “Character-Aware Models Improve Visual Text Rendering ”, Liu et al 2022
- “Colors of an App Icon: 2022 Edition ”, Hall 2022
- “Fast Text Placement Scheme for ASCII Art Synthesis ”, Chung & Kwon 2022
- “Combinator-Nbe:
nbe.agda§ Line 64 ”, Huang 2022 - “Fooled by Beautiful Data: Visualization Esthetics Bias Trust in Science, News, and Social Media ”, Lin & Thornton 2022
- “An Unsupervised Font Style Transfer Model Based on Generative Adversarial Networks ”, Zeng & Pan 2021
- “[Jayme Odgers’s Remiscences of Working for Paul Rand] ”, Odgers 2021
- “HTCN: Harmonious Text Colorization Network for Visual-Textual Presentation Design ”, Yang et al 2021c
- “Unpaired Font Family Synthesis Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks ”, Hassan et al 2021
- “Time Travel: A Live Demo of the Intermedia Hypertext System—Circa 1989 ”, Meyrowitz 2020
- “ALL-CAPS ”, Arbel & Toler 2020b
- “Footnote 36: Redisturbed: In This Issue We’re Focusing on the Redisturbed Typeface For The New Decade [Redisturbed Is a Fresh Look at Our Original Disturbance Typeface from 1993. Looking Deeper at the Concept of a Unicase Alphabet and Designing It for Expanded Use Today. More Weights, Optical Sizes, Language Support and OpenType Features.] ”, Tankard 2020
- “The Samuel Johnson of Emoji ”
- “Singular: Possible Futures of the Singularity ”, Yu & GPT-3 2020
- “Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community: Typefaces That Be Freely Used and Modified Give Others a Chance to Hone Their Craft—And Share Valuable Feedback ”, Finley 2020
- “Free Movie Of the Week ”, Things 2020
- “Text for Proofing Fonts: A Farewell to The Quick Brown Fox ”, Hoefler 2020
- “What’s in a Font?: Ideological Perceptions of Typography ”, Haenschen & Tamul 2019
- “Moxomenon ”, Searls 2019
- “Founding and Growing Adobe Systems, Inc ”, Warnock & Geschke 2019
- “
popups.js”, Achmiz 2019 - “
wikipedia-Popups.js”, Achmiz 2019 - “
This Page Is a Truly Naked, Brutalist Html Quine”, Bambrick 2019 - “The First Printed Math Books ”, Boardley 2019
- “FIGR: Few-Shot Image Generation With Reptile ”, Clouâtre & Demers 2019
- “What Every Engineer Should Know About Inventing § Chapter 4: Theories of Creativity [Wine/printing] ”, Middendorf 2019 (page 5)
- “Everyday Printed Matter: Kurt Schwitters’s Experimental Typography ”, Pröbsting 2019
- “Spooky Fizz Buzz § Pg42 ”, Menghrajani 2019 (page 42)
- “Issho: Designed by Dutchscot, London ”, Designed 2018
- “Structural Typography: Type As Both Language and Composition ”, Heck 2018
- “Comic Shanns: a Classy Font for Programming ”, González 2018
- “The Origins of PostScript ”, Warnock 2018
- “The Devil’s in the g–tails: Deficient Letter-Shape Knowledge and Awareness despite Massive Visual Experience ”, Wong et al 2018
- “Threading Is Sticky: How Threaded Conversations Promote Comment System User Retention ”, Budak et al 2017
- “From Boiling Lead and Black Art: An Essay on the History of Mathematical Typography ”, Smith 2017
- “Implementing Recommendations From Web Accessibility Guidelines: A Comparative Study of Nondisabled Users and Users With Visual Impairments ”, Schmutz et al 2017
- “Blade Runner (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2016
- “When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks ”, Elsey 2016
- “Implementing Recommendations From Web Accessibility Guidelines: Would They Also Provide Benefits to Nondisabled Users ”, Schmutz et al 2016
- “Visions of the Future: 14 Space Travel Posters of Colorful, Exotic Space Settings Are Now Available Free for Downloading and Printing ”, Goods et al 2016
- “The Colors Of An App Icon: A Study into the Color Distribution ”, Hall 2015
- “Alien (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2014
- “‘More Consistent and Systematic Than Any Form of Writing I Know’: Kurt Schwitters’s Systemschrift ”, Fuller 2014
- “Simple Ideas That Changed Printing and Publishing ”, Warnock 2012
- “Rebuilding the Typographic Society ”, Butterick 2012
- Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint, Gaskins 2012
- “Hyphenation: Configurable Knuth-Liang Hyphenation ”, Kmett 2012
- “The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway ”, Shaw 2008
- “BREATHTAKING Design Strategy ”, Group 2008
- “The Road to Clarity ”, Yaffa 2007
- “Minuscule Type Specimen ”, Huot-Marchand 2007
- “The Phenomenon of the "Gros Canon" ”, Amert 2005
- “Host: Deep into the Mercenary World of Take-No-Prisoners Political Talk Radio ”, Wallace 2005
- “Sparkline Theory and Practice ”, Tufte 2004
- “Sparkline Theory and Practice ”, Tufte 2004
- “Black And White Haven Winamp Skin ”
- “Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles ”, Archive 2003
- “Naked Objects: a Technique for Designing More Expressive Systems ”, Pawson & Matthews 2001
- “Joachim of Fiore and Apocalyptic Immanence ”, Ziolo 2001
- “Letter Spirit (Part Two): Modeling Creativity in a Visual Domain ”, Rehling 2001
- “Monotype and Photosetting ”, Boag 2000
- “こめじるし【※, 米印】 ”, Gally 2000
- “German Bold Italic ”, Sugiyama 1997
- “Letter Spirit: An Emergent Model of the Perception and Creation of Alphabetic Style ”, Hofstadter & McGraw 1993
- “Letter Spirit: An Architecture for Creativity in a Microdomain ”, McGraw & Hofstadter 1993
- “Miles Albert Tinker and the Zone of Optimal Typography ”, Sutherland 1989
- “Hypertext and the Oxford English Dictionary ”, Raymond & Tompa 1988
- “Hypertext 1987: Keynote Address ”, Dam 1988
- “The Printing of Mathematics ”, Wishart 1988
- “Embedded Menus: Selecting Items in Context ”, Koved & Shneiderman 1986
- “Readability of Computer-Generated Fill-Justified Text ”, Trollip & Sales 1986
- “Meta-Font, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth’s Article ‘The Concept of a Meta-Font’ ”, Hofstadter 1982
- “The Concept of a Meta-Font ”, Knuth 1982
- “The Letter S ”, Knuth 1980
- “Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign ”, Bass 1969
- Legibility of Print, Tinker 1963
- The Printing of Mathematics: Aids for Authors and Editors and Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford, Chaundy et al 1954
- “The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography ”, Bartels 1926
- “Jgs Font ”
- “The World’s First Code-Free Sparkline Typeface: Displaying Charts in Text without Having to Use Code ”
- “Why Are Tech Companies Making Custom Typefaces? ”
- “Occlution Grotesque ”
- “Screen Serif Fonts ”, Achmiz 2025
- “Explaining Code Using ASCII Art ”
- Web Typography, Rutter 2025
- “Markdeep Features: Admonitions ”, McGuire 2025
- “Markdeep Features: Multiple Columns ”, McGuire 2025
- “List of Pangrams ”
- “CTAN: /tex-Archive/language/hyph-Utf8 ”
- “Departure Mono ”
- “OpenType Font Features Guide ”
- “Tufte CSS ”
- “PARANOIA SANS ”
- “Bad-Apple-Font: Playing ‘Bad Apple!!’ With Harfbuzz WASM Shaper ”, Jingyi 2025
- “How I Did Relay Quine ”
- “
z80-Sans: OpenType Font That Disassembles Z80 CPU Instructions ”, nevesnunes 2025 - “Ellipsizing of Text in Middle of String ”
- “Y-Combinator Codex ”
- “Past Lives of the Paragraph ”
- “Blowing-Up-Groundhogs/font-Square-V2 ”
- “Hamiltonian Cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings ”
- “ASCII Silhouettify Color Gallery ”
- “Butterick’s Practical Typography ”
- “Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–1887) ”
- “The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596) [Image Gallery] ”, Review 2025
- “W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ”
- “Digital Color Meter User Guide for Mac ”
- “Toshi Omagari ”
- “WALL·E ”
- “Dan Rhatigan ”, Rhatigan 2025
- “Website Design—Why Do People Not Notice Our Enormous, Prominent, Clear and Contrasting Purple Banner? ”
- “Scunthorpe Sans: a Profanity-Blocking Font ”
- “Typophile ”
- “Japanese Sound Effects and What They Mean ”
- “Japanese Web Design: Why You So 2003? ”
- “Notes on Monospace, Fonts, ASCII, Unicode ”
- “About C82.net: Works of Nicholas Rougeux ”, Rougeux 2025
- Fontemon
- “
CodingFont”, Typogram 2025 - “Sunrise Font ”
- “The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art ”
- “Kicks Condor ”, Condor 2025
- “Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 1 ”
- “Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2 ”
- “MonoLisa: Font Follows Function ”
- “Towards Moore’s Law Software: Part 3 of 3 ”
- “Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife ”
- “An abjad for English ”
- “A Letter We’ve Seen Millions of Times, yet Can’t Write: Despite Seeing It Millions of times in Pretty Much Every Picture Book, Every Novel, Every Newspaper and Every Email Message, People Are Essentially Unaware of the More Common Version of the Lowercase Print Letter ‘G’, Johns Hopkins Researchers Have Found ”
- “Mathematical Notation: Past and Future ”
- “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering ”
- “Apple or IPod? Easy Fix for Adversarial Textual Attacks on OpenAI’s CLIP Model! ”
- “Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign § Stripes Are Modern ”
- _Soilleir_
- “Bracket Symbols ”, Munroe 2025
- “
algol_nu[Syntax Highlighting Theme] ” - “Chinese Window Lattice And CSS ”
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia (52)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Design Graveyard ”, Gwern 2010
“Subscripts For Citations ”, Gwern 2020
“Utext: Rich Unicode Documents ”, Gwern 2023
“A/B Testing Indentation & Justification ”, Gwern 2022
“Who Buys Fonts? ”, Gwern 2021
“Design Of This Website ”, Gwern 2010
“Sidenotes In Web Design ”, Gwern 2020
“Lorem Ipsum ”, Gwern 2020
“A/B Testing Long-Form Readability on Gwern.net ”, Gwern 2012
“Fake Journal Club: Teaching Critical Reading ”, Gwern 2022
“Rare Greek Variables ”, Gwern 2021
“Auto-Smallcaps Filter ”, Gwern 2020
Links
“Remaking of ‘The New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram’ ”, Rougeux 2025
Remaking of ‘The New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram’ :
View External Link:
“Emuru: Zero-Shot Styled Text Image Generation, but Make It Autoregressive ”, Pippi et al 2025
Emuru: Zero-Shot Styled Text Image Generation, but Make It Autoregressive
“Kerning, the Hard Way ”, Jones 2025
“Gorton: The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan ”, Wichary 2025
“OpenAI Unveils Its First Ever Rebrand: A New Typeface, Word Mark, Symbol and Palette Underpin All the Ways in Which OpenAI’s Technology Interacts With the Real World ”, Bell 2025
“Visual Theory of Mind Enables the Invention of Proto-Writing ”, Spiegel et al 2025
Visual Theory of Mind Enables the Invention of Proto-Writing
“Walmart Introduces Updated Look and Feel: A Testament to Heritage and Innovation ”
Walmart Introduces Updated Look and Feel: A Testament to Heritage and Innovation
“Won’t versus Can’t: Sandbagging-Like Behavior from Claude Models ”
Won’t versus Can’t: Sandbagging-like Behavior from Claude Models :
“Stega-Encoding [Embedding Metadata in Apps With Unicode Steganography] ”, Sanity 2024
Stega-encoding [embedding metadata in apps with Unicode steganography]
“Invisible Unicode Text That AI Chatbots Understand and Humans Can’t? Yep, It’s a Thing ”
Invisible Unicode text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing
“My Dead Father Is ‘Writing’ Me Notes Again ”
“The Monospace Web: A Minimalist Design Exploration ”, Wickström 2024
“How Elon Musk Got Tangled Up in Blue § Homoglyph Attack ”, Mac & Conger 2024
“handwriter.ttf: Handwriting Synthesis With Harfbuzz WASM ”, Jingyi 2024
“Fonts Hanging Out ”, Cordova 2024
“ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-Based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs ”, Jiang et al 2024
ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs
“FontDiffuser: One-Shot Font Generation via Denoising Diffusion With Multi-Scale Content Aggregation and Style Contrastive Learning ”, Yang et al 2023
“StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images ”, Rodriguez et al 2023
StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images
“The LessWrong 2022 Review § Cost of Book Production ”, Habryka 2023
“Evolving the Reddit Brand: A More Accessible, Bespoke Typography, New Conversation Bubbles and Colors, and a New Snoo Logo—Now With Opposable Thumbs! ”, Reddit 2023
View HTML (66MB):
/doc/www/www.redditinc.com/4e526054919d06bb0b9777203a5ad4d207a77b7d.html
“TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the Power of Language Models for Text Rendering ”, Chen et al 2023
TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the Power of Language Models for Text Rendering
“AnyText: Multilingual Visual Text Generation And Editing ”, Tuo et al 2023
“HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype ”, Gould & Tan 2023
“‘The Uniformity of a Distinctive National Character’: Loops, Knots, and Bernardo De Gálvez’s Calligraphic Equestrian Portrait ”, Hyman 2023
“Character-Aware Models Improve Visual Text Rendering ”, Liu et al 2022
“Colors of an App Icon: 2022 Edition ”, Hall 2022
“Fast Text Placement Scheme for ASCII Art Synthesis ”, Chung & Kwon 2022
“Combinator-Nbe: nbe.agda § Line 64 ”, Huang 2022
“Fooled by Beautiful Data: Visualization Esthetics Bias Trust in Science, News, and Social Media ”, Lin & Thornton 2022
Fooled by beautiful data: Visualization esthetics bias trust in science, news, and social media
“An Unsupervised Font Style Transfer Model Based on Generative Adversarial Networks ”, Zeng & Pan 2021
An unsupervised font style transfer model based on generative adversarial networks
“[Jayme Odgers’s Remiscences of Working for Paul Rand] ”, Odgers 2021
“HTCN: Harmonious Text Colorization Network for Visual-Textual Presentation Design ”, Yang et al 2021c
HTCN: Harmonious Text Colorization Network for Visual-Textual Presentation Design
“Unpaired Font Family Synthesis Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks ”, Hassan et al 2021
Unpaired font family synthesis using conditional generative adversarial networks
“Time Travel: A Live Demo of the Intermedia Hypertext System—Circa 1989 ”, Meyrowitz 2020
Time Travel: A Live Demo of the Intermedia Hypertext System—Circa 1989
“ALL-CAPS ”, Arbel & Toler 2020b
“Footnote 36: Redisturbed: In This Issue We’re Focusing on the Redisturbed Typeface For The New Decade [Redisturbed Is a Fresh Look at Our Original Disturbance Typeface from 1993. Looking Deeper at the Concept of a Unicase Alphabet and Designing It for Expanded Use Today. More Weights, Optical Sizes, Language Support and OpenType Features.] ”, Tankard 2020
“The Samuel Johnson of Emoji ”
“Singular: Possible Futures of the Singularity ”, Yu & GPT-3 2020
“Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community: Typefaces That Be Freely Used and Modified Give Others a Chance to Hone Their Craft—And Share Valuable Feedback ”, Finley 2020
“Free Movie Of the Week ”, Things 2020
“Text for Proofing Fonts: A Farewell to The Quick Brown Fox ”, Hoefler 2020
Text for Proofing Fonts: A farewell to The Quick Brown Fox :
“What’s in a Font?: Ideological Perceptions of Typography ”, Haenschen & Tamul 2019
“Moxomenon ”, Searls 2019
“Founding and Growing Adobe Systems, Inc ”, Warnock & Geschke 2019
“popups.js ”, Achmiz 2019
“wikipedia-Popups.js ”, Achmiz 2019
“This Page Is a Truly Naked, Brutalist Html Quine ”, Bambrick 2019
“The First Printed Math Books ”, Boardley 2019
“FIGR: Few-Shot Image Generation With Reptile ”, Clouâtre & Demers 2019
“What Every Engineer Should Know About Inventing § Chapter 4: Theories of Creativity [Wine/printing] ”, Middendorf 2019 (page 5)
What Every Engineer Should Know About Inventing § Chapter 4: Theories of Creativity [wine/printing] :
“Everyday Printed Matter: Kurt Schwitters’s Experimental Typography ”, Pröbsting 2019
Everyday printed matter: Kurt Schwitters’s experimental typography
“Spooky Fizz Buzz § Pg42 ”, Menghrajani 2019 (page 42)
“Issho: Designed by Dutchscot, London ”, Designed 2018
“Structural Typography: Type As Both Language and Composition ”, Heck 2018
Structural Typography: Type as both language and composition
“Comic Shanns: a Classy Font for Programming ”, González 2018
“The Origins of PostScript ”, Warnock 2018
“The Devil’s in the g–tails: Deficient Letter-Shape Knowledge and Awareness despite Massive Visual Experience ”, Wong et al 2018
“Threading Is Sticky: How Threaded Conversations Promote Comment System User Retention ”, Budak et al 2017
Threading is Sticky: How Threaded Conversations Promote Comment System User Retention
“From Boiling Lead and Black Art: An Essay on the History of Mathematical Typography ”, Smith 2017
From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography
“Implementing Recommendations From Web Accessibility Guidelines: A Comparative Study of Nondisabled Users and Users With Visual Impairments ”, Schmutz et al 2017
“Blade Runner (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2016
“When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks ”, Elsey 2016
When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks
“Implementing Recommendations From Web Accessibility Guidelines: Would They Also Provide Benefits to Nondisabled Users ”, Schmutz et al 2016
“Visions of the Future: 14 Space Travel Posters of Colorful, Exotic Space Settings Are Now Available Free for Downloading and Printing ”, Goods et al 2016
“The Colors Of An App Icon: A Study into the Color Distribution ”, Hall 2015
The Colors Of An App Icon: A study into the color distribution
“Alien (Typeset In The Future) ”, Addey 2014
“‘More Consistent and Systematic Than Any Form of Writing I Know’: Kurt Schwitters’s Systemschrift ”, Fuller 2014
‘More consistent and systematic than any form of writing I know’: Kurt Schwitters’s Systemschrift
“Simple Ideas That Changed Printing and Publishing ”, Warnock 2012
Simple Ideas That Changed Printing and Publishing :
View PDF:
“Rebuilding the Typographic Society ”, Butterick 2012
Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint, Gaskins 2012
“Hyphenation: Configurable Knuth-Liang Hyphenation ”, Kmett 2012
“The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway ”, Shaw 2008
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway
“BREATHTAKING Design Strategy ”, Group 2008
“The Road to Clarity ”, Yaffa 2007
“Minuscule Type Specimen ”, Huot-Marchand 2007
“The Phenomenon of the "Gros Canon" ”, Amert 2005
The Phenomenon of the "Gros Canon" :
View PDF:
“Host: Deep into the Mercenary World of Take-No-Prisoners Political Talk Radio ”, Wallace 2005
Host: Deep into the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio
“Sparkline Theory and Practice ”, Tufte 2004
“Sparkline Theory and Practice ”, Tufte 2004
“Black And White Haven Winamp Skin ”
Black And White Haven Winamp skin :
View External Link:
https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Black_And_White_Haven
“Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles ”, Archive 2003
Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the review for printers and bibliophiles :
View PDF (31MB):
“Naked Objects: a Technique for Designing More Expressive Systems ”, Pawson & Matthews 2001
Naked objects: a technique for designing more expressive systems
“Joachim of Fiore and Apocalyptic Immanence ”, Ziolo 2001
“Letter Spirit (Part Two): Modeling Creativity in a Visual Domain ”, Rehling 2001
Letter Spirit (part two): Modeling creativity in a visual domain
“Monotype and Photosetting ”, Boag 2000
View PDF:
“こめじるし【※, 米印】 ”, Gally 2000
“German Bold Italic ”, Sugiyama 1997
“Letter Spirit: An Emergent Model of the Perception and Creation of Alphabetic Style ”, Hofstadter & McGraw 1993
Letter Spirit: An Emergent Model of the Perception and Creation of Alphabetic Style :
“Letter Spirit: An Architecture for Creativity in a Microdomain ”, McGraw & Hofstadter 1993
Letter spirit: An architecture for creativity in a microdomain
“Miles Albert Tinker and the Zone of Optimal Typography ”, Sutherland 1989
“Hypertext and the Oxford English Dictionary ”, Raymond & Tompa 1988
“Hypertext 1987: Keynote Address ”, Dam 1988
Hypertext 1987: keynote address :
View PDF:
“The Printing of Mathematics ”, Wishart 1988
View PDF:
“Embedded Menus: Selecting Items in Context ”, Koved & Shneiderman 1986
“Readability of Computer-Generated Fill-Justified Text ”, Trollip & Sales 1986
Readability of Computer-Generated Fill-Justified Text :
View PDF:
“Meta-Font, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth’s Article ‘The Concept of a Meta-Font’ ”, Hofstadter 1982
“The Concept of a Meta-Font ”, Knuth 1982
“The Letter S ”, Knuth 1980
“Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign ”, Bass 1969
Legibility of Print, Tinker 1963
The Printing of Mathematics: Aids for Authors and Editors and Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford, Chaundy et al 1954
“The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography ”, Bartels 1926
The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography :
“Jgs Font ”
“The World’s First Code-Free Sparkline Typeface: Displaying Charts in Text without Having to Use Code ”
The world’s first code-free sparkline typeface: Displaying charts in text without having to use code
“Why Are Tech Companies Making Custom Typefaces? ”
“Occlution Grotesque ”
“Screen Serif Fonts ”, Achmiz 2025
View External Link:
“Explaining Code Using ASCII Art ”
Web Typography, Rutter 2025
“Markdeep Features: Admonitions ”, McGuire 2025
“Markdeep Features: Multiple Columns ”, McGuire 2025
“List of Pangrams ”
“CTAN: /tex-Archive/language/hyph-Utf8 ”
“Departure Mono ”
“OpenType Font Features Guide ”
“Tufte CSS ”
“PARANOIA SANS ”
“Bad-Apple-Font: Playing ‘Bad Apple!!’ With Harfbuzz WASM Shaper ”, Jingyi 2025
Bad-Apple-Font: Playing ‘Bad Apple!!’ with Harfbuzz WASM shaper
“How I Did Relay Quine ”
“z80-Sans: OpenType Font That Disassembles Z80 CPU Instructions ”, nevesnunes 2025
z80-sans: OpenType font that disassembles Z80 CPU instructions :
“Ellipsizing of Text in Middle of String ”
“Y-Combinator Codex ”
“Past Lives of the Paragraph ”
“Blowing-Up-Groundhogs/font-Square-V2 ”
“Hamiltonian Cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings ”
“ASCII Silhouettify Color Gallery ”
“Butterick’s Practical Typography ”
“Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–1887) ”
“The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596) [Image Gallery] ”, Review 2025
“W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ”
W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz :
“Digital Color Meter User Guide for Mac ”
“Toshi Omagari ”
“WALL·E ”
WALL·E :
“Dan Rhatigan ”, Rhatigan 2025
“Website Design—Why Do People Not Notice Our Enormous, Prominent, Clear and Contrasting Purple Banner? ”
“Scunthorpe Sans: a Profanity-Blocking Font ”
“Typophile ”
“Japanese Sound Effects and What They Mean ”
“Japanese Web Design: Why You So 2003? ”
“Notes on Monospace, Fonts, ASCII, Unicode ”
“About C82.net: Works of Nicholas Rougeux ”, Rougeux 2025
About C82.net: Works of Nicholas Rougeux :
View External Link:
Fontemon
“CodingFont ”, Typogram 2025
“Sunrise Font ”
View External Link:
“The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art ”
“Kicks Condor ”, Condor 2025
“Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 1 ”
“Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2 ”
“MonoLisa: Font Follows Function ”
“Towards Moore’s Law Software: Part 3 of 3 ”
“Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife ”
“An abjad for English ”
“A Letter We’ve Seen Millions of Times, yet Can’t Write: Despite Seeing It Millions of times in Pretty Much Every Picture Book, Every Novel, Every Newspaper and Every Email Message, People Are Essentially Unaware of the More Common Version of the Lowercase Print Letter ‘G’, Johns Hopkins Researchers Have Found ”
“Mathematical Notation: Past and Future ”
“Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering ”
“Apple or IPod? Easy Fix for Adversarial Textual Attacks on OpenAI’s CLIP Model! ”
Apple or iPod? Easy Fix for Adversarial Textual Attacks on OpenAI’s CLIP Model!
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