Design - Type - Lukas Bergstrom's weblog

the porous city - design - type

This is Lukas Bergstrom's personal weblog. You might want to visit my professional site. You can also find me on Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.

3/17/21
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Beautiful, readable text online

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, a manual and an example in one.

9/24/16
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Font inspiration

Google Fonts combinations
more at Beautiful fonts

9/29/07
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sIFR (badass custom font headlines for the web)

6/21/07
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Free fonts from Peter Saville

Including some of the fonts he used on album covers for New Order, Joy Division, etc.

6/12/07
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Explaining Mac vs Windows font rendering

This has bothered me for a while. Thanks Joel. Of course, in our bright new high-DPI future this won't matter. Right?

Update from the far future of 2014: well, it took longer than expected, but yes, text finally looks really nice in OS X browsers.

8/5/06
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WhatTheFont?! - figure out what a font is with an image sample

5/5/04
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brooklyn kid font

1/5/04
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Fontifier
Make a font out of your handwriting. Not mine, mine's terrible. But you could do it. You have nice girly handwriting, you dot your Is with bubbles.

11/13/03
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profont
"The ultimate programming font." Pretty, monospaced. FON version supposedly superior to TTF.

7/12/02
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Textism: Twenty Faces: Jenson
Ooh. Pretty. In its next incarnation, inevitable backlash will be distributed as a pdf, so we can all appreciate what a real typeface looks like.

5/13/02
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A note on the type.