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Pairing fonts – 3 ways to find great typeface combinations

A beginner’s guide on how to mix fonts for your website or app from easy to advanced.

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Microsoft’s 2021 default fonts – a typographer’s thoughts and suggestion on it

Microsoft commissioned 5 sans-serif typefaces and asked on Twitter, which should be the new default that will replace Calibri. I share my suggestion.

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How tracking and kerning improves all caps text

When untreated, all caps text creates problematic spaces between letters. Tracking fixes it mostly for web and app design, kerning fine-tunes it.

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Font Follows Feeling – A brief type classification

Knowing what broad genres of typefaces exist and what feelings they evoke, can be a handy tool to dig through the tons of available fonts out there.

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How to pick a Typeface for User Interface and App Design?

What should you pay attention to when choosing a font for your user interface or app?

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Improving the Typography of the iOS time display

Every minute when the time is changing all numbers shift around and this just annoys me.