Skönt att se att även programmerare är intresserade av typografi. Men det är klart att behoven är helt annorlunda än tex vid bokläsning.
”Monospaced font with programming ligatures.”
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Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
More than graphic design, typography is an expression of technology, precision and good order. Typography is no longer concerned with meeting the lofty and difficult demands of art but with satisfying, formally and functionally, the everyday requirements of a craft.
― Emil Ruder
The Mystery Font That Took Over New York | NYtimes
How did Choc, a quirky calligraphic typeface drawn by a French graphic designer in the 1950s, end up on storefronts everywhere?
Inter UI font family
Inter UI is a typeface specially designed for user interfaces with focus on high legibility of small-to-medium sized text on computer screens.
Free font to download and use.
Källa: Inter UI font family
Font of all knowledge? Researchers develop typeface they say can boost memory |The Guardian
Australian researchers say they have developed a new tool that could help students cramming for exams – a font that helps the reader remember information.
Melbourne-based RMIT University’s behavioural business lab and design school teamed up to create “Sans Forgetica”, which they say uses psychological and design theories to aid memory retention.
About 400 university students have been involved in a study that found a small increase in the amount participants remembered – 57% of text written in Sans Forgetica compared with 50% in a plain Arial.