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15 Best New Fonts, March 2024
20Mar By Dazzler Productions SA de CVNo Comments
building website, Compilations, creating a website, google web designer, internet design, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

15 Best New Fonts, March 2024

2 days ago Welcome to March’s edition of our roundup of the best new fonts for designers. This month’s compilation includes interesting new uses for variable font technology, some warm, approachable typefaces, and a couple of excellent scripts. Hour Hour is a fantastic, experimental variable font that employs two axes to create a 3D effect. Hour and Okta scale the multiple dots that construct each letterform to ...
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15 Best New Fonts, January 2024
30Jan By Dazzler Productions SA de CVNo Comments
building website, creating a website, Fonts, google web designer, internet design, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

15 Best New Fonts, January 2024

Yesterday It’s January, and what better time to revisit our typography and freshen up our designs for 2024. In this month’s roundup of the best new fonts, we find a large number of vintage, retro, and revival typefaces. Is it that 2024 will be a heavily retro year, or were these designs simply created at the tail-end of 2023, and we’ll have to wait for February and March for 2024’s trends to emerge? Only time wi...
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X is Testing Variable Upload Quality Options for Video Creators
9Oct By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments
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X is Testing Variable Upload Quality Options for Video Creators

Another element of X’s pivot to video is coming, with creators soon set to be able to select the video quality that they want to upload in.   As shown in this example, posted by X designer Andrea Conway, along with a toggle to allow or disallow downloads of their content, creators will also be able to select variable upload quality, which could make it easier for people looking to get their videos up on the platform quickly, or in low data situations. Which could be a rare consideration of users outside the U.S., with many X users in developing markets still not in situations that enable them to upload full HD content, due to network capacity, data plans, etc. Though according to X owner Elon Musk users in these markets aren’t the main motivation. The lower resolution choices are for thos...
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Variable Font Reveals The Full Horror of The Climate Crisis
17Feb By Ben MossNo Comments
building website, climate change, creating a website, free fonts, google web designer, green design, internet design, News, politics and design, variable fonts, web design, web design company, web designer, web page design, website builder, website design

Variable Font Reveals The Full Horror of The Climate Crisis

Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font, that is designed to make the effects of human-driven climate change tangible in a simple graphical form. Whereas most type designers use variable font techniques to embed a range of weights in a single font file, the team — lead by Helsingin Sanomat’s art director Tuomas Jääskeläinen, and typographer Eino Korkala — used the technique to “melt” the typeface. In the design process, we tried out countless letter shapes and styles, only to find that most of them visualized the disaster right in the earliest stages of the transformation. That’s something we wanted to avoid because unlike a global pandemic, climate change is a crisis that sneaks up on us. — Tuomas Jääskeläinen The default typeface represents the volume of Arc...
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