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  1. Do Not Use Obliques in Arabic

    The history of obliques/italic fonts, and why you shouldn’t use them in Arabic-based texts.

    Rami Taibah
    November 1, 2022
    • Typography
    • Design
    • Arabic
  2. How to make quick calculations in Sketch

    Surprisingly Sketch hides some powerful calculation features. Here are some real world uses for that handy feature.

    Luke Mitchell
    February 19, 2020
    • Sketch
    • Typography
    • User Interface
    • Design
  3. Human-Centered Typography

    Viewing typography as a human-centered field of design

    Carolann Bonner
    October 24, 2014
    • Design
    • Typography
    • User Experience
  4. A Typographic Refactoring

    On Giant Robots, we’ve switched from using Skolar and Proxima Nova via...

    Edwin Morris
    October 4, 2013
    • Design
    • Typography
  5. Typography PSA: Stop putting two spaces after a period

    I have lots of typographic pet peeves. Lots. But the biggest one is when...

    Kyle Fiedler
    October 23, 2012
    • Design
    • Typography
    • Language
  6. Showing off

    How to get noticed as a designer.

    Kyle Fiedler
    August 30, 2011
    • Design
    • Typography
  7. Font Battle 2011

    A recent straw poll of text editor fonts at thoughtbot found these results....

    Nick Quaranto
    August 15, 2011
    • Design
    • Typography
    • Vim
    • Unix
  8. Get Your Type Back in Shape with These Simple Tricks

    Type looking a little flabby? Overweight? Want to give it a kick in the...

    Kyle Fiedler
    March 21, 2011
    • Design
    • Typography
  9. The mess of web font services

    Summary of the landscape around web fonts.

    Kyle Fiedler
    June 7, 2010
    • Design
    • Typography
  10. To em, or to err.

    There’s been some talk about ditching ems as the proper unit for measuring...

    Angelo Simeoni
    January 29, 2008
    • Design
    • Typography
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