International Standard Paper Sizes Markus Kuhn on why A4 is the shape it is, and the 1786 letter that noticed it first
Gimme A colour type family that has been under construction since 2020, with every style built from a different toy
I just chose words carefully A Super Metroid guide from the dial-up years, fully justified in monospace by rewriting every line until it fit
Ransom Center Movie Posters Five thousand sheets that actually hung in Texas lobbies, free to download at printing size
Tironian Notes Cicero's secretary invented shorthand, and Dublin still parks by it
Datatype A font that draws the chart for you
Finds
- Choreoglyphs Type a word, watch the invisible swipe-keyboard gesture that would draw it
- Bastardica A type foundry for cursed web fonts
- Paper Effects Types your keyword into a fake newspaper page, then films the reveal
- I just chose words carefully A 17,000-word Super Metroid guide, fully justified in monospace by rewriting every line
- Gimme A type family where every letter is built from a different childhood toy
- Modern Day Typographer Elle Cordova sings the history of typefaces to Gilbert and Sullivan
- Tironian Notes Cicero's secretary invented shorthand, and one of his symbols is still in Unicode
- Falling Letters Type a sentence and watch it crumble, letter by letter
- Printing Films It started with a box of Linotype promo reels handed over in 2011
- ThinkingType An eval asking whether the font changes the model's mind
- Shieldfont A web font that shows readers your words and scrapers someone else's
- Datatype A font that draws the chart for you
- Publius All 85 Federalist Papers, presented one by one as they first ran in 1787-88
- randoFont Shuffle through Google Fonts one delightful specimen at a time
- Heikki's Garden of Flowers Searchable archive of historical letterpress type ornaments
- S.E.C.R.E.T. Searchable archive of confidential envelope interior patterns
- The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts Gruber on how each Circuit Court chooses its typeface
- Jenny Volvovski's Unsolicited Book Covers A working designer redesigns her own library, one book at a time