The website for MA Studio Speculative Software is now up for voting on awwwards. Vote here → awwwards.com/sites/ma-studio-speculative-software Visit the site → interface.fh-potsdam.de/ma-speculati...

iframetest.com, useful in combination with getslideframe.com

🚨 Bad news: Active development of slideFrame has been discontinued. ✅ Good news: It’s now open source! Check out the live demo, explore the code, and fork it → getslideframe.com

🚨 Bad news: Active development of slideFrame has been discontinued. ✅ Good news: It’s now open source! Check out the live demo, explore the code, and fork it → getslideframe.com

Handy tool for creating invoices in the browser → invoice.cc Haven’t tested it in real-world situations, especially when it comes to German bureaucracy, but still cool.

Cool use of temper.one: Gamestorm Collective uses my page builder as a foundation for their website and builds on top of it. → gamestormcollective.org

Hey devs! 👋 slideFrame, my tiny JS + CSS snippet for opening external links in a dynamic overlay, is now open source. Check it out and fork it → getslideframe.com

I really didn’t foresee this when designing the typeface, but Fictional and children’s books just seem to be a match made in heaven More examples here → jonastype.com/gallery

Lovely use of my Fictional typeface: Céleste Gigaudaut designed a children’s paperback book collection for her studies at Gobelins Paris Get Fictional here → jonastype.com/fictional

Submissions are open again on collected.li

Clarification: I don’t use Tailwind. By utility classes, I mean custom utility classes written in vanilla CSS.

Class naming in HTML/CSS: I like utility classes, and I’ve been leaning more towards a utility-class-first approach lately. Combining this with a BEM-inspired system for specific blocks works really well for me. #frontend

🔤 Indicate Mono — Jonas Type Nice WIP Pay-what-you-want monotype font that’s worth checking out.

I designed and built the website for the MA Studio Speculative Software. The studio is part of the Master of Arts in Design at Fachhochschule Potsdam, dedicated to exploring and designing creative, experimental software user interfaces. → interface.fh-potsdam.de/ma-speculati...

✍️ Indicate Mono Condensed 🔗 jonastype.com/indicate-mono #typedesign #graphicdesign #typography

🔠 Introducing Indicate Mono Condensed, the second style of my monospace typeface in ongoing development. → jonastype.com/indicate-mono

Feed: "Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world" By: Jonas Pelzer on Thursday, November 27, 2025

Feed: "Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world" By: Jonas Pelzer on Friday, December 19, 2025

used temper.one to draft the copy, chose my colors and type, exported the static html, uploaded it to github, deployed on vercel, bought a 2 dollar domain on porkbun - paid using ethereum on base, connected everything, and went live. the whole process took less than an hour.

Scope in use for Metz School of Engineering (École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Metz / ENIM), designed by Studio Steez

“I’m a designer who can code, but I tell people I’m a full‑stack developer who can design, because the order of those words strongly affects how much money you can make” Smart move, @gregwolanski.com! (Source: gregwolanski.com)

Answered a few questions for Path to Design → www.pathtodesign.com/designers/jo...

Home delivery causes more harm than good. Everyone who’s physically able should have to pick up their deliveries in stores.

Setting up my new Mac, I was wondering what’s the best approach to install a local Apache server these days. Any recommendations?

The Future Simulator is now on @fontsinuse.com → fontsinuse.com/uses/73069/t...

I foolishly used to think font licensing was so complicated because nobody put enough work into improving the system. I now understand that every type publisher is constantly working on this, and there’s just no clear or easy solutions.

This is still pretty cool to me

My Fictional typeface is now used for the signage system of a primary school in Hamburg, designed by Studio Gourdin More information on the project → studio-gourdin.com/projekte/gru... Get Fictional → jonastype.com/fictional

After providing design consultation for Applix last year, a tech company building AI tools for manufacturing optimization, I was recently hired to design and develop a new landing page for them. It now serves as a foundation for the client to independently build additional subpages. → applix.ai

mietencheck.de is a non-profit helping Berlin tenants check and contest illegal rents. They are looking for volunteers with web development or design experience. If you want to contribute to something meaningful for Berliners, here’s how to get involved → mietencheck.notion.site/Call-for-Vol...

Earlier this year, I designed and developed the website for Layer Performance. Layer Performance develops software for high-performance, non-planar additive manufacturing. They were recently awarded Digital Startup of the Year by @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de. → layerperformance.com

Half the internet is down but our websites are still running friends 😎

Neue Sammlung is now available to use on temper.one! This playful geometric typeface was designed by Yanik Hauschild and Gabriel Richter, and was recently released on nicetotype.jp.

Honored to be part of Typologie Vert, a beautifully crafted publication by Studio Recto Verso celebrating contemporary German type design. Thanks to Julien Fincker for the pictures! Get Typologie Vert here → rectoverso.studio/publications... Get Scope here → jonastype.com/scope

Last week I had the pleasure of giving a workshop on “Web Typography with HTML & CSS” in the Master’s program in Design at FH Potsdam. It was an exploration of what’s possible when you treat CSS not just as an implementation method, but as a design tool for typographic experimentation.

Finally, some good news from the USA. Wasn’t sure if that was still possible. #NYC

Great use of my Scope typeface by Studio Freude and Stefan Kainbacher for “The Future Simulator”, a permanent exhibition at @tmwpress.bsky.social 🌍️

Since releasing the first style of my Indicate Mono typeface on a pay-what-you-want basis (including a free option), people have been posting it to lots of free font sites. I have no idea how far it’s spread or how people are using it — there’s no way to track that. → jonastype.com/indicate-mono

I don’t care too much about that AI company it’s made for, but this visual identity is a piece of beauty. Except those angular corner things maybe, not sure what to make of those. koto.studio/work/faculty/

Autoplay carousels for text content. Not ideal. How do you know how long it takes me to read? Please just let me click a button (or, even better, scroll) when I’m done reading.

CodePen is a blessing for CSS workshops

Can someone recommend a hosting provider in the US? I’m just looking for a basic shared hosting plan, with PHP support and the option to connect an existing domain. Nothing fancy.

o ARETE é uma linha do tempo interativa mostrando os diversos estilos e estágios dos modelos caligráficos e tipográficos do alfabeto romano, super legal de consultar e checar cada período em que foram usados uma dica muito legal do @mastermuchacho.bsky.social (=https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

This visualization of the history of the Latin alphabet is cool. uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

A Visual History of the Latin Aphabet https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

For funsies: A history of the Latin alphabet courtesy of UCLAB's ARETE project: uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

SVG is fascinating.

Cool to see that the site announcing the Stanford University event about the rediscovery of the MingKwai prototype was built using my site builder temper.one! 😎 → mingkw.ai

Updated post-self-evident-poems.com. 1. Replaced the Twitter link under the Social Media Poem with Mastodon and Bluesky links. 2. Updated the broken publishing house link to Open Library. 3. Fixed two small mobile bugs while I was at it.