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Hi all,

You may have noticed a new process announced by Apple at the beginning of October and related to their validation process to embed fonts into apps :


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I’m drawing a typeface based on Yakov Chernikhov’s construction drawings: Table 21, the “Academic” alphabet, from his book on letter construction, published posthumously in 1958.


Every letter sits on a modular grid. The cap height is four modules, main strokes are 2/3 of a module, thin strokes 1/12, serifs project 1/5. Bowls and terminals are drawn with com...


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Hello everyone,

Saw this recent tweet from Anthropic claiming they generated a fully working font from 120 pages of handwritten notes using Claude Opus 5.5. https://x.com/claudeai/status/211...

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Hi everyone, I hope you're all having a nice day!I wanted to request feedback/critiques on a typeface project I've been working on, Hundar.The project is very ambitious in that it hopes to provide an OFL-licensed workhorse typeface with optical sizes, an accompanying sans style, as well as support for a broad range of languages (including extensive Latin, Greek and Cyrillic supp...

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Two years ago, I released MFB Oldstyle. I didn't post about it, since it is just an open-source (PD via CC-Zero) revival of Century Oldstyle (MFB = "Morris Fuller Benton"), and, while useful (I hope!), it was nothing groundbreaking in terms of design. The font is available on

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