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Arsenal has introduced a new gothic-style font as part of its club branding, designed as a modern take on traditional blackletter lettering. The typeface completes a set of custom fonts the 140-year-old club uses across pre-game, in-game, and post-game materials.
Iosevka is an open-source monospace typeface offering both sans-serif and slab-serif styles, aimed at developers and terminal users. The font is freely available for download and customization, with source files published for community contribution.
A new Android Auto 18 beta has appeared, revealing a redesigned user interface alongside references to deeper Gemini AI personalization and updated font technology. The changes were spotted in the beta code rather than announced formally by Google.
A free font called C64 Keyboard recreates the letterforms and symbols from Commodore 64 keycaps, based on photographs of the original keyboard. It includes uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, function-key labels, and all 63 PETSCII graphic legends, distributed as TTF, OTF, webfont and a complete package with a preview tool.
A web-based compiler combines any base font (like Inter or Roboto) with a chosen tokenizer (such as DeepSeek, GPT tokenizers, or Llama 3) to produce a 'token-space font' where every token occupies the same visual width. Users can preview text in the browser, upload custom fonts or tokenizers via Hugging Face links, and export compiled fonts, with an optional 'lite mode' for smaller file sizes.
A Show HN project lets users create distorted, glitch-style fonts—dubbed 'bastard fonts'—that are exported as standard OpenType files. The visual distortion is achieved through contextual ligature substitutions embedded in the font file, which most browsers and design tools enable by default.
A small JavaScript library called semfont analyzes each word in a passage and automatically applies visual styling—highlighting, coloring, bolding, and italicizing—based on scores it computes for valence, salience, surprise, and certainty. These scores combine dictionary lookups with contextual rules, such as detecting negators, intensifiers, contrast words, and word rarity relative to common English and the surrounding text.
Intel archived the GitHub repository for its One Mono developer typeface earlier this week as part of a broader trimming of open-source projects, then reversed course and reinstated the project. Reports indicate the company may keep maintaining it going forward.
President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario, presenting the change with props displaying the new name in his administration's designated official font. The typeface, intended to project formality and authority, drew attention for appearing at odds with the gravity the administration sought to convey.
Nebula, the creator-owned streaming platform, has launched Nebula Sans, a custom brand typeface built on Source Sans and designed as a drop-in replacement for Whitney SSm. The font comes in two styles across six weights and is released under the SIL Open Font License, making it free for anyone to download and use. Nebula also released a short documentary detailing the typeface's creation.