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Font List on Linux

2023-01-28 (Saturday)
Tags: fonts linux

fc-list

Description of Adobe PostScript FontType 1

2022-03-08 (Tuesday)
Tags: PostScript fonts file formats specification

John Gilmore: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable contains a reverse engineered (1989) spec of PS Type I fonts.

Nice Fonts

2021-09-04 (Saturday)
Tags: typography fonts web

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito very clean sans serif font, looks a bit like Normschrift, multiple weights. rounded ends. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Quicksand https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Titillium+Web Sort of angular Sans Nice black weight https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Josefin+Sans long ascenders https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Patrick+Hand clean hand-printed look, kind of comicy https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Righteous Rounded, heavy, not for body text, a bit like Bauhaus https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orbitron Square, science-fiction, like Eurostile https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat Nice gothic font. Lots of different weights. Example: https://euroconstruct-demo.wifo.ac.at/ https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat+Alternates See Righteous https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Economica Condensed https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Philosopher Sans with different line widths

Wakamai Fondue

2020-09-16 (Wednesday)
Tags: Fonts OpenType CSS tool

Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”