Charlie Harvey

Font of the month

7 Font of the month articles in total, showing 1 to 7

  • Font of the Month: CSS Sans

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    It is not often that one sees something as clever as the CSS sans font yet which has no practical application beyond the sheer fun of creating it.It’s been a while since my last Font of the Month, which was Sans Bullshit Sans back in February, so this time I thought I should review something

  • Font of the month: Sans Bullshit Sans

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    I realize that posting the Font of the Month on the very last day of the month is cutting it a bit fine. So this month’s font is a bit special. Sans Bullshit Sans, by PixelAmbacht hides bullshit marketing words in your text with a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar. Th

  • Font of the month: Source Serif Pro

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    Adobe surprised me back in 2012 when they contributed the Source Sans Pro font to the community, along with a monospaced variant called Source Code Pro. In May 2014, the Source family were joined by Source Serif Pro. Source Serif Pro was designed by Frank Grießhammer to complement Source Sans

  • Font of the month: LilGrotesk

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    Lil Grotesk is a nice straightforward sans serif font available under the free software SIL Open Font Licence. And this month it is my font of the month.I found Lil Grotesk on Open Font Library, which is in itself a fantastic project. It brings together a collection of hundreds of free software a

  • Font of the month: Inconsolata

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    Doing IT and programming for a living means that I look at a lot of monospaced text. Recently I decided to look for a font to replace the trusty Bitstream Vera Mono that I have been using for several years. I found the humanist sans-serif Inconsolata font by Raph Levien, which had been recommende


  • Font of the month: EB Garamond

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    This month I have gone for a font which revives Claude Garamont’s 16th century humanist typeface. There have been many variants of Garamond, but not many high quality versions that are free software — URW++ Garamond No. 8 is open source but doesn’t quite rate as free software be

  • Font of the month: Montserrat

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    My inaugaral font of the month is the work of Julieta Ulanovsky, who lives in Buenos Aries. She drew the inspiration for the font from the urban, hand-drawn lettering on old posters, signs and other letterforms in the neighbourhood where she lives and works, Montserrat. The typeface evokes th