Riley Cran
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Designer / Developer | I make fonts at Lettermatic | š He/Him š¤ Lettermatic.com
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Simon | Indie Game Dev š®
15 days ago
Hey
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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 āGenius Animatedā. Cc
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Thank you, Brian Wilson.
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Bill Atkinson is one of my heroes. āMaking art on a computerā 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. āMaking art on a computerā 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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BƩzier curves are magic.
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TC
6 months ago
Happy Pride Month 2025 š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø Be gay do crow stuff
#pridemonth
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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 itās 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 itās hard to believe Adobe eventually conquered the market.
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Double Fine
7 months ago
It's Psychonauts' 20th anniversary. š§ š§ 𤯠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
8 months 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. š”Ā šĀ š 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
9 months 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⦠š® 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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9 months ago
Hi, Bluesky! š¦ 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 ā it's exciting to share the result of all our hard work!
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Jane Solomon
9 months ago
šHello. Iām 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. š¤
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New Work: Fonts for Fetch. š”Ā šĀ š 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
9 months 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 š¼ļø
linktr.ee/carlydraws
#art
#StarTrek
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#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
9 months ago
Testing the new Really Sans font by
@rileycran.bsky.social
today. My favorite letters so far are the āaā and āeā, 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
10 months 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 arenāt mirror images of each other, they are more complicated than that.
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Hereās another way of comparing these approaches, showing the relative similarity between ācā and āoā in the two designs.
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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) š§µ
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The reaction to this thread has been heartwarming today, thanks folksā£ļø
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Jane Solomon
10 months 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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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) š§µ
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Should I post threads here about the intricacies of typography?
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Sometimes I see letters I drew extruded in metal. ā¤ļø
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Glenn Fleishman
12 months ago
May I humbly suggest that for the comics-and-history buff in your life, my book about how newspaper cartoons were madeāincluding never-before-printed Doonesbury and Peanuts printing artifactsāwould be a great gift?
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Javascript is a lot funnier if you picture the āconsoleā as like the āpatting you on the backā kind.
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Blue Sky recreates a phenomenon from āold internetā where you will be scrolling along and then there will just be a link to a cool article that youād like to read. Itās sad how so much of the modern internet has scrubbed this idea. Itās a network. Youāre supposed to explore around it.
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I met my wife 10 years ago today. šā„ļø
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Connie Geppert
10 months ago
We are hiring moar people!! For our upcoming game Project Ocean we are looking for another SENIOR LEVEL DESIGNER and a SENIOR GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMER, Go Go Go! :D Remote, freelance, maximum flexibility!
www.jo-mei.com/jobs
Please retweet, thank you!
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The sheer frequency of posts on all social media platforms that are āimages of a bunch of textā suggests a failing in their design. People are telling the platform what they want to post. This particular solution is less than ideal for many reasons.
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Birthday! Another trip around the sun.
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Laura āØ
11 months ago
Website for experimental web diagrams, an Active Creativity project for learning JavaScript.
laurasinisterra.github.io/diagram/
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Lettermatic turns 5 today š I cannot wait to show you what we're working on. š¤
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Thatās my emotional support āchrome tab I am saving to read at just the right moment because I am very sure it is going to be an excellent article relevant to my interestsā.
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