From #CTAN:

Bob Tennent submitted an update to the atkinson package.

Version: 2025-03-14
License: lppl other-free

Summary description: Support for the Atkinson Hyperlegible family of fonts

https://ctan.org/pkg/atkinson

Which of these #fonts do you think I should use for my next #customized hat?

Please mark your fave font choice by number.

Why I the web.

An offline-capable Notepad (also a Progressive Web App) that's been operating for 9 years.

Dark mode.
Privacy-focused
Full-screen mode
Supports monospaced and dyslexic #fonts.
Floating window
Download notes as plain text, #PDF, and DOCX.

https://notepad.js.org/

Interesting article about an important, but largely unknown font: Gorton.

#typography #fonts

https://social.data.coop/@kongputer/114149685344376289

#Fediverse, I need your help again!
tl; dr: I need a font maker software!

I'd like to convert my handwriting into a font for my research output, as I'd like to maintain my personal handwriting in my sketchnotes but I'd like the written notes to be text.
I'm already very familiar with vector graphics and lettering but never made a font so would love an open source/free font design software to start.

From #CTAN:

Johannes Heinecke submitted an update to the aramaic-serto package.

Version: 1.3.2
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Fonts and LaTeX for Syriac written in Serto

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/aramaic-serto

Creative director Jason Pattinson is behind Fleckled, a new online shop of hand-printed letterpress typefaces that have been digitized and are available as high-resolution downloads:

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/fleckled-letterpress-shop/

Fleckled - An online resource of hand-printed and digitised #Letterpress assets.

https://fleckled.com/

#Fonts
#Typography

I wrote a little Rust program that shows how font with specific OpenType features will look. Helps to decide if I should switch my terminal to another font or not.

https://github.com/mirekdlugosz/font-feature-tester

Longer story at my blog: https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2025/customizing-fonts-look-with-opentype-features/

I really like the proposed asterism symbol, ⁂, U+2042 to represent the Fediverse. “In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations.”
https://symbol.fediverse.info
I might just add it to my fonts, (and perhaps boot the bitcoin, ₿, U+20BF, while I'm at it) Now to see whether I like hexacles (the bestagons) or pentacles..
#charactersetpolitics #fediverse #fonts #typography

Hundreds of #pixelart #fonts preserved by @patrick_h_lauke

https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/imagewall/

From #CTAN:

Clea F. Rees submitted an update to the fontscripts package.

Version: 0.3 2025-02-22
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Font encodings, metrics and Lua script fragments for font creation

https://ctan.org/pkg/fontscripts

From #CTAN:

Clea F. Rees submitted an update to the ebgaramond-maths package.

Version: 1.3 2025-02-19
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Limited LaTeX support for ebgaramond in maths

https://ctan.org/pkg/ebgaramond-maths

From #CTAN:

Takuji Tanaka submitted an update to the uptex-fonts package.

Version number: 2025-02-18
License type: bsd3

Summary description: Fonts for use with upTeX

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/uptex-fonts

#TeXLaTeX #fonts

Hexcess began as a sketch for a sci-fi heavy metal band logo. It’s an experiment using hexagons and the novel forms built from them to construct a high-contrast, condensed blackletter on a grid. In the grand tradition of heavy metal logos, readability wasn’t a high priority but fun certainly was. Use it for posters, album covers, book titles, zines, and legal fine print.

Get Hexcess at: https://delvefonts.com/fonts/hexcess/

Does anyone know of a great *cursive* monospace font?

I'm using Victor Mono Italic (patched with Nerdfonts) and it's almost what I want, but still draws distinct letter forms rather than joining ones.

(Yes, I sometimes write in cursive, but I'm still in vim, because my brain is monospace.)

From the comments:
Musing about Helvetica Medium – and specifically the larger sizes of the foundry version – with Fernando Mello, @fhardwig and Albert-Jan Pool https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64237/disco-sucks#comment-907827

Holy crap what an article. It's too much of a deep dive to try to quote from. Great work from @mwichary . #typography #fonts

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

From #CTAN:

Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the erewhon-math package.

Version: 0.67 2025-02-15
License: ofl lppl1.3c

Summary description: Utopia based OpenType Math font

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/erewhon-math