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 Mac font samples, including San Francisco. Screenshot by David Remahl, CC BY-SA 3.0, unchanged. Kottke recently pointed me to Bastardica, “a…

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ComicBookFonts Annual Sale Today

If you’ve ever wanted to add some whimsical fonts to your library, there probably isn’t any better place than ComicBookFonts.com. This is a resource for professional comic artists and there is a dizzying array of fonts available. I purchased their Hedge Backwards years ago…

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The Sketchnote Typeface

Mike Rohde, author of the Sketchnote Handbook and recent MPU Guest, just released the font he created for his book. In my opinion, 99% of all “handwriting” fonts look terrible. Mike’s font fits in the 1%. There is even a web-friendly Typekit version. I plan…

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More Monospaced Fonts

Today I received several notes about monospaced fonts following yesterday’s post. Here are some more great monospaced fonts. Bold Inconsolata There is a Google Web font version of Inconsolata with bold. I’ve already upgraded. via Luca Soldaini Adobe Source Code Pro This is a…

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