New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
Riley Cran
@rileycran.bsky.social
Designer / Developer | I make fonts at Lettermatic | 🔠 He/Him 🔤 Lettermatic.com
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...
Texture healing is one of the most innovative things I’ve seen in digital typography recently. 🧑🍳💋
Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
incredible work! @github.com giving the world one hell of a gift by open-sourcing this font family containing *nearly three-quarters of a million glyphs*! 🤯 can't wait to start using it in my projects 🤩
Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
Strongly recommend this read; it leads up to a quite powerful showcase of multiple styles of the superfamily in HTML and in code. It makes perfect sense when you see it. You can checkout monaspace here if you haven't already: monaspace.githubnext.com
Monaspace
An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
monaspace.githubnext.com
Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
Lettermatic ✕ GitHub Next: the inside story of Monaspace, a truly groundbreaking advancement for how we display code. We knew that Lettermatic would go deep, but we were still amazed by their level of knowledge and craft. See their case study below, and get the fonts at monaspace.githubnext.com
Monaspace
An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
monaspace.githubnext.com
Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
Amazing write-up about Monaspace - our wonderful family of fonts that we created together with our friends at Lettermatic 🥰
Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: 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 · 4mo agoNew work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
Well there’s a new experience. Streaming service removes a show from their offerings WHILE I am watching it. 📺
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) 🧵
A fun thing to do is to contact illustrators and pay them to make custom art for you. People are nice and talented.
Alex Toth was so good at drawing spaceships. From the book ‘Genius Animated’. Cc @thespaceshipper.com
Bill Atkinson is one of my heroes. ‘Making art on a computer’ simply would not have been the same without this man. The experience of using a web browser, even, is inspired by his work. Thanks Bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
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Bill Atkinson is one of my heroes. ‘Making art on a computer’ simply would not have been the same without this man. The experience of using a web browser, even, is inspired by his work. Thanks Bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
nytimes.com
This typographic vibe really had the 1990s in a stranglehold (two of these being Bodega Sans).
This typographic vibe really had the 1990s in a stranglehold (two of these being Bodega Sans).
I would like to write an article about the sheer amount of design/illustration software that can be found in episodes of the TV show Computer Chronicles (1984-2002). These episodes show demos of so much raster/vector design software that it’s hard to believe Adobe eventually conquered the market.
I would like to write an article about the sheer amount of design/illustration software that can be found in episodes of the TV show Computer Chronicles (1984-2002). These episodes show demos of so much raster/vector design software that it’s hard to believe Adobe eventually conquered the market.
It's Psychonauts' 20th anniversary. 🧠🧠 🤯 What can you even say! It feels like yesterday butalso one hundred years ago. Double Fine took a big swing on our first game and let's be honest: we kinda nailed it? Thank you all for your love and support over the years. We love that you love Raz so much!
Today marks 2 years of Pentiment! Here's a case study on how my colleagues and I at Lettermatic designed the game's fonts, with the talented team at Obsidian. lettermatic.com/custom/penti...
I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
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