GoKawiil11 min read
Fonts are one of the few design objects you literally cannot avoid.
You look at type every day. In your editor, your browser, your terminal, your phone, your lock screen, your notes, your menus. Even when you think you are only looking at content, you are still looking through a typeface.
That is part of why this keeps bothering me.
Everyone wants the hacker vibe.
Almost nobody wants to use the typography that actually built it.
That always feels like a miss to me.
We keep borrowing the atmosphere of old computing. The terminals, the midnight screens, the command line, the weird little machine-like sharpness of older software. But then the typography ends up looking like a polished startup dashboard.
And if I am being honest, that kills half the feeling.
Bitmap fonts feel like a lost art to me.
... continue reading