Playful Fonts from Bastardica

I have a long history of appreciating inappropriate and useless fonts, starting, of course, with San Francisco back on the original Mac.

Original Macintosh font samples, with San Francisco near the upper right.

Original Mac font samples, including San Francisco. Screenshot by David Remahl, CC BY-SA 3.0, unchanged.

Kottke recently pointed me to Bastardica, “a foundry for bastard web fonts”, which I enjoyed reviewing with much relish, although I couldn’t imagine ever using one.

My particular favorite is Sneaky Bastard, which is “Times New Roman but every 7th glyph is Arial, scaled 90% to match size.”

Written by David Sparks

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