The Indie Web
A clean new take on a monospace font to freshen up your IDE.
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If you’re setting up your brand new laptop and looking for a new terminal and IDE font, then MonoLisa could be the breath of fresh air that you’re looking for!
Who, what, whyMass Driver is the flashy new font foundry that just moved into the neighborhood.
They’ve just launched with a very creative pixel font, titled MD-Eight, the eight namesake is because each character is set within an 8 by 8 grid of pixels.
MD Eight is a weird display typeface built on the foundation of a weird pixel typeface. With swash caps.https://t.co/HCM07hlAZ4
— Mass-Driver™ (@mass_driver_tm) February 20, 2020
(specimen pdf: https://t.co/vEOpGxPT3r) pic.twitter.com/WY4GPE6gdG
The font makes great use of negative space, making it impressively legible for a font made out of pixels.
How do I get it?Ever since variable fonts were introduced to the web, we’ve been seeing more and more creativity and beauty. Marvin Visions popped up in 2017 and was a trailblazer that carved out the space!
Marvin Visions is a modern and consistent reinterpretation of Marvin, a typeface originally designed by Michael Chave in 1969 and published by Face Photosetting. It has been revived and expanded by Mathieu Triay for the identity of Visions, a new science fiction magazine.
Let me introduce to you Marvin Visions https://t.co/BiMetzaAQm
— Mathieu Triay (@MathieuLoutre) September 22, 2017
Now, Marvin Visions was released in 2017. But it’s really just too amazing not to write about!
«Marvin gets its distinctive voice not only from its Art Nouveau vibe but also from its almost geometrically perfect construction. Its roundness and familiarity with Bauhaus typefaces shows its roots in geometric sans serifs at the same time.» https://t.co/F0Vo4s7Zd5 pic.twitter.com/hbDKvTXDCi
— Iván Flores (@NocheVolta) December 3, 2018
The website itself shows off how sleek and versatile variable fonts can be, resizing seamlessly from thick to thin, tall to short.
Any other special details?Swiss type foundry Grilli Type are at it again with GT Alpina. There really is no better way to describe it than in the foundry’s own words:
GT Alpina by Reto Moser proudly calls itself a workhorse serif, but delights in playing with the very meaning of that concept. It reaches into the grab bag of typographic history to resurrect shapes some may mistakenly see as too expressive.
Now for the extra icing on the cake: the font has been beautifully engineered as a beloved variable font!
This huge serif family consists of 7 subfamilies: 3 widths, 2 contrast levels, plus a monospaced sibling. It’s been a crazy 8 years of work and we’re so excited to release it out into the world. https://t.co/PlsUprxbR9
— Grilli Type Foundry (@grillitype) January 15, 2020
And what better way to show off what a variable font can do, than with a fully interactive experience?
I want to read about the experienceA font created from US Congressional Districts. Amazingly, the creators have been able to rustle out every single letter of the alphabet.
Hey Arnold @Schwarzenegger, pic.twitter.com/K8zjwHEVD4
— Ugly Gerry (@UglyGerry) September 26, 2019
The font, available here, provides the OTF files you will need to use the font. Their Twitter is also very active, with some great blasts aimed at politicians, and celebs.
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