Notes
- Highway Gothic vs Clearview: two fonts went to war over American road signsApproved in 2004, killed in 2016, revived in 2018 — with the government refusing to endorse it.
- Geometric sans serif fonts: a field guideHow to spot one in four seconds, why the strict ones are hard to read, and which are actually worth using.
- Typeface vs font: the distinction that stopped mattering in 1985It was a real difference once, and it described a real object. Here is what it meant.
- A vigil is what you keep when you refuse to go to sleep on something.Ten years of a calendar block that said MAKE FONT, and why it finally shipped.
- A century of circles: the geometric groteskErbar, Futura and Kabel arrived within a year of each other. The idea never left.
- Soft corners: a short history of the rounded sansFrom a car company's letterhead to every app icon, and what most rounded fonts get wrong.