Riley Cran
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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...
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nate moore
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Texture healing is one of the most innovative things I’ve seen in digital typography recently. 🧑🍳💋
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Drake
about 1 month ago
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 🤩
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Michael G
about 1 month ago
I love the level of detail, thought and expression this kind of true artisanship delivers.
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Benjamin Andrew
about 1 month ago
Incredible case study for designers of all kinds to check out!
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Sean Newell
about 1 month ago
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
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GitHub Next
about 1 month ago
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
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Krzysztof Cieslak
about 1 month ago
Amazing write-up about Monaspace - our wonderful family of fonts that we created together with our friends at Lettermatic 🥰
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Jane Solomon
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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.
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New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here:
lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
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Do I know anyone who has a Deadlock invite?
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Well there’s a new experience. Streaming service removes a show from their offerings WHILE I am watching it. 📺
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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) 🧵
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I miss the internet of the past.
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Simon | Indie Game Dev 🎮
6 months ago
Hey
#gamedev
#indiedev
looking for someone recommendations to commission work for some art direction & UI/UX concepts. Need some help to nail down the visual look for the game. Initial idea is PSX/N64 era FPS with a splash of The FINALS
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A fun thing to do is to contact illustrators and pay them to make custom art for you. People are nice and talented.
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Alex Toth was so good at drawing spaceships. From the book ‘Genius Animated’. Cc
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Thank you, Brian Wilson.
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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...
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Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html
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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...
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Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html
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Bézier curves are magic.
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TC
11 months ago
Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff
#pridemonth
#pridecrows
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This typographic vibe really had the 1990s in a stranglehold (two of these being Bodega Sans).
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This typographic vibe really had the 1990s in a stranglehold (two of these being Bodega Sans).
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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.
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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.
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Double Fine
about 1 year ago
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!
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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...
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Vertex
about 1 year ago
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...
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For-Profit (Creative) Software
YouTube video by EndVertex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc
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Explore the design process behind two new type families, WeGo Serif and WeGo Sans for Fetch:
lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...
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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...
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Explore the design process behind two new type families, WeGo Serif and WeGo Sans for Fetch:
lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...
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Steve Haddock
about 1 year ago
Honestly speechless about how thorough and creative this typeface design was. Variable widths and weights, serif, sans, italic, optional monospaced numbers, a volume knob for embellishments, smart swashes… 😮 Read through the linked article for details.
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The swashes in WeGo Serif also have smart OpenType settings which auto-magically choose the best swash combinations on the fly. Read more about the design process here:
lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...
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about 1 year ago
Hi, Bluesky! 🦋 I work at Lettermatic, a type foundry, making font families like these. I've been dreaming up swash styles and fussing over tiny details in these families with my talented coworkers — it's exciting to share the result of all our hard work!
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Jane Solomon
about 1 year ago
👋Hello. I’m a typeface designer now and this was my first project.
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The team at Lettermatic designed two custom families of type (a serif and a sans) for Fetch. 🔤
lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...
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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...
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carlydraws
about 1 year ago
Print shots! My photos do not do justice to how colourful and vibrant this came out-
@vicepress.bsky.social
printed it up beautifully! You can boldly go to vice press or sideshow (US) if you'd like an Enterprise in your ready room 🖼️
linktr.ee/carlydraws
#art
#StarTrek
late
#SpaceshipSaturday
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One way to visualize the importance of counterforms is a 'blur test.' Adrian Frutiger did tests like this in the 1970s when designing his eponymous typeface (originally for a French airport). See how one set of drawings is easier to distinguish, in these harsh conditions of blur?
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By drawing different counter shapes, I can make many letters appear without changing the positive shape at all. This is shown here to illustrate the importance of the counterforms, and how they impact our perception of letter shapes.
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mightymoss
about 1 year ago
Testing the new Really Sans font by
@rileycran.bsky.social
today. My favorite letters so far are the “a” and “e”, they look fantastic in the ultra large font style. The large letter version reads really well as a lowercase headline. Two thumbs up!
#typography
#design
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It turns out subtraction is the quickest way. It's relatively simple; subtracting these two negative 'counterforms' or 'counters' from our positive shape has made this an 's.' Our brain wants to see the 's' here, based on the previous reading we've done in our lives.
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Today I would like to do a thread about 'counterforms.' They are a critical building block of typeface design... but what are they? How do they work? I'll also talk about how I thought of the counterforms in Really Sans.
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Wes Cowley
about 1 year ago
Very interesting thread on what makes some fonts more readable than others.
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The bowl characters (b, d, p, q) have a directionality to them. They aren’t mirror images of each other, they are more complicated than that.
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Here’s another way of comparing these approaches, showing the relative similarity between ‘c’ and ‘o’ in the two designs.
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The reaction to this thread has been heartwarming today, thanks folks❣️
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Jane Solomon
about 1 year ago
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.
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