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

Type designers often have certain stylistic ways of drawing letterforms, and certain technical ways of creating font files.

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

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 …

The need for us designers to kern is actually quite rare, thanks to the diligent work of professional type designers.

Good typography is within everyone’s reach, and it starts with the fundamentals. This module acts as an accessible primer for anyone to build confidence and skills, and is also a solid foundation...

Building and maintaining a font collection on the computer you use for design work is an important part of life as a designer. However, there are a number of ways this process can be …

Type designers have long created complex typeface families of various weights and widths that allow a word of almost any length to fit on the same text line (i.e.; to “fit the line”). But only...

We also ask all graphic designers who use Titillium in their projects to email us some examples of the typeface family in use, in order to prepare a case histories database.

Two type designers separated by an eight-hour time difference, an ocean, and pandemic travel bans collaborated over video calls and email to make a cohesive set of fonts in 8 South Asian...