Tag Archives: font

Works by Nigel Cottier from his Instagram. h/t: TYPE01

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A very sheep game by Adel Faure, 2022 using his Jgs font. And a very cheap gif. Runs in the browser. More posts.

Julian Hespenheide‘s design for the Hard Fork podcast, 2022. Cool choice of font!

Postcodes around London by Nigel Cottier since 2019. From his Instagram. Similar to his Letter Variations fonts.

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Jgs font by Adel Faure, 2022. A font family where the characters connect to one another, making it ASCII-good. Also includes some non-ASCII characters. Work in progress. A tribute to Joan Stark (jgs).

Check out his other good tools here.

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Letterform Variations, a set of 10 variable fonts and a book by Nigel Cottier, 2021.

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Maakhaven Display, designed by Lennarts & De Bruijn 2018.

Topaz Unicode by Screwtape, 2024. Adds a rich set of Unicode characters to the default Amiga 500 font, and offers it as a TTF-font. New characters include

  • all the Windows Glyph List 4 characters, including Cyrillic, Greek, and the MS-DOS CP437 symbols
  • everything in the Box Drawing Unicode block
  • everything in the Block Elements Unicode block
  • a lot of things in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Unicode block
  • anything else that caught my eye or seemed useful

The font is available as TTF at GitLab.

h/t: Ne7

Minkowski, a variable typeface by Nigel Cottier, 2022. It’s based on Minkowski distance curves. From his Instagram.

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FF Beowulf by Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum, published in 1990. A typeface that looks different every time it’s typed, because there is Postscript code to randomize the outlines. The original authors have made a new version called LTR Beowulf.