Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of …

We all use type every day, from word processors and social media graphic apps to professional desktop design software and hand-coded websites. Good typography is within everyone’s …

A typeface is what you see; a font is what you use.

An overview of the type design process, from ideation and sketching right through to making fonts and releasing them.

Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the complete 897 character set, which includes the …

A simple but thorough checklist to reference every time we need to choose a new typeface, with each item explained in detail.

Barlow is a slightly rounded, low-contrast, grotesk type family. Drawing from the visual style of the California public, Barlow shares qualities with the state's car plates, highway signs, busses, …

Jost is an original font created by indestructible type*. It is inspired by 1920s German sans-serifs. This is version 3.7. Jost is designed and maintained by Owen Earl, who is the creator of the …

With so many typefaces in the world, searching for the right one can be a daunting task, but filtering helps.