Did you know the GitHub Monaspace project includes nearly three quarters of a million glyphs? We documented the design process in our brand new case study: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...

Some of you may know I've been working as a typeface designer at Lettermatic for the last 2.5 years. Here's the case study for Monaspace, our collaboration with @github.com @githubnext.com. I wrote the case study and worked on Cyrillic, Greek, and IPA characters for the 4.1 update.

Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...

👋Hello. I’m a typeface designer now and this was my first project.

Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 2y ago

New Work: Fonts for Fetch. 🔡 🐕 🔠 We made a custom type system comprised of a workhorse sans and friendly serif for one of the most popular shopping apps in the USA. Read the full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...

Great article by @jasonli.bsky.social on digital typefaces made in Hong Kong. This includes Prison Gothic, a project based on road signs around the city made by incarcerated people in the 1970s to 1990s.

Jason Li@jasonli.bsky.social · 2y ago

Presenting the most comprehensive list of Chinese fonts made in Hong Kong since the year 2000 💘:

Geometric sans fonts like Helvetica are popular, but having letter terminations perfectly aligned can make a font more difficult to read. For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type.

Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why: (thread) 🧵

Cow do you do, fellow kids?