Getting comfortable designing on my phone
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Carl Enlund
@carlstype@typo.social
mastodon 4.6.9A decade of type design
Building FontBob
Stockholm
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Joined March 07, 2025
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Love seeing what tota*nox makes with FontBob.
So I made a half-article, half-specimen about their work.
https://fontbob.com/blog/totanox
@eWalthert@typo.social Only intelligent algorithms. My hands and eyes are behind every design decision.
Smart fonts. They work in my editor now. I'm calling them smart because I don't know of a better name.
A smart font lets you design a whole family of coherent font styles in real time by editing a single design source.
Private beta soon.
stream aborted, i got invaded
What if Papyrus Mono
We just reached 400 public hand-made fonts.
Some are even OFL and editable in the browser 👀
https://fontbob.com/discover
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Inspired by this 1919 graph by Dwiggins
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwiggins_graph.jpg
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@gdc@typo.social the picture makes me so happy. you nailed the aesthetic. the tool is cool, too!
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@btuttle@typo.social I had to sit and admire the font for a few minutes. It's unexpected in so many ways.
Swedish granite is not kind on the wrists.
abc becomes ABC (video)
CAP&Design wrote about a small experiment I've worked on for learning type design.
gradient inktrap concept
Is there a practical use case of this?