#fontography — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fontography, aggregated by home.social.
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EINPresswire: FontBase launches Fontalog — the biggest font database in the world with over 3.5 million fonts (PRESS RELEASE). “Fontalog is a searchable, super-fast, free database of fonts, created by FontBase. You can search fonts by visual characteristics, the same way you can do in our SuperSearch: proportion, contrast, weight and xHeight. On every font page there are multiple similar […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/17/einpresswire-fontbase-launches-fontalog-the-biggest-font-database-in-the-world-with-over-3-5-million-fonts-press-release/ -
All About Ken: Datatype is a variable font that turns text into tiny inline charts.. “Datatype, by Frank Tisellano, is a variable font that renders inline bar charts, sparklines, and pie charts straight out of OpenType ligatures. Write {b:30,70,50,90} and get {b:30,70,50,90}; no JavaScript, no SVG, no charting library involved.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/14/all-about-ken-datatype-is-a-variable-font-that-turns-text-into-tiny-inline-charts/ -
Boing Boing: Type a word, get it back in 50 ASCII art fonts. “Lokesh Dhakar’s ASCII Today renders your text as big block letters made out of slashes, pipes, and underscores — the kind that head old README files and source-code comments. When you type a word at ascii.today, all 50 fonts appear at once in a grid, redrawing character by character.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/boing-boing-type-a-word-get-it-back-in-50-ascii-art-fonts/ -
The Register: Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font. “Look at a web page written using a ShieldFont font and it’ll appear exactly as one would expect: All the content words (the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that give a sentence meaning) are the same as the writer originally wrote. Inspect the raw HTML that a scraper reads from a ShieldFonted page, however, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/the-register-open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/ -
Mixfont: Decoy Font. “Decoy font is a font that prints a decoy for every letter, making it more difficult for AI to read what you type. The font works by using separate spatial frequencies to communicate two different letters in the same space.”
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Mighil: Notes from building Tinkerfont. “Tinkerfont is a browser extension for inspecting, replacing, and testing fonts on live websites…. Free on Chrome and Firefox. No account. Everything stays in local storage on your device.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/mighil-notes-from-building-tinkerfont/ -
PetaPixel: You Can Spell Your Name is Aerial Images Thanks to NASA. “Following on from Earth Day (April 22), NASA has publicized a tool that allows people to spell out their name or any word they want using Landsat satellite images.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/28/petapixel-you-can-spell-your-name-is-aerial-images-thanks-to-nasa/ -
From over the transom: a fancy text generator called AuraFonts. Type in your text and see how it looks in over a thousand different font/decorative styles. For example: ꧁Read ResearchBuzz!꧂
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Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: Sweetfont. From the page description: “Sweetfont helps you find the perfect Google Font by exploring axes like playfulness, elegance, and warmth on interactive XY pads.”
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New-to-me, from Print: Andrew Anderson Has Compiled an Online Archive of the Detroit Legend Ron Signs. “In time, [Andrew Anderson] identified the artist as Ron Miller, and put his collection of about 250 Google Street View screenshots of his signs dating back to 2009 on his website. He also created a virtual Ron Signs map plotting out all of them throughout the city, and published a Twitter […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/23/print-andrew-anderson-has-compiled-an-online-archive-of-the-detroit-legend-ron-signs/ -
The Marginalian: Alphabet in Motion: Artist Kelli Anderson’s Wondrous Pop-up Biography of the Letters. “Kelli Anderson, maker of material magic, brings that layered history to life in Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape — a large-format two-volume marvel, many years and myriad prototypes in the making, full of paper pulleys and accordion delights that illustrate the biography of […]
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Spotted in Calishat Snaps: Font Generator. “Convert your regular letters into pretty fonts ✨ and copy and paste from hundreds of cute text options.” There’s also a section for number fonts and another section for text decorations.
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9to5 Google: Google releases its ‘Google Sans Flex’ font to the public . ” Through the Google Fonts website, Google Sans Flex is now available for download. This is the font you’ll find across Google products, including on Pixel phones in some areas of the software. This is also the font used as the base of the ‘Rounded’ variant used in Material 3 Expressive. It was first released in 2023.”
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The Pudding: What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?. “This is possible because media artist Yufeng Zhao fed millions of publicly-available panoramas from Google Street View into a computer program that transcribes text within the images (anyone can access these Street View images; you don’t even need a Google account!).”
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Microsoft Design: Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids. “To help young readers of all skill levels, we’re introducing Kermit, a child-friendly typeface created by the type design studio Underware. Kermit is a friendly and approachable font that encourages children of all skill levels to read, even if they are anxious about their abilities.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/introducing-kermit-a-typeface-for-kids-microsoft/
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RTE: ‘Irish heritage’ – tracking down Dublin’s historic street signs. “Researchers at Trinity College Dublin are calling on the public to help them track down the capital’s old street signs to document them before they disappear. The bilingual green and white signs, which feature the old Irish font Cló Gaelach, date back to the turn of the 20th century and are believed to have been […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/rte-irish-heritage-tracking-down-dublins-historic-street-signs/
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Marcin Wichary: The hardest working font in Manhattan. “It’s hard to believe today that there was a time before I knew of Gorton and all its quirks and mysteries. The first time I realized the font even existed was some time in 2017, when I was researching for my book about the history of typing.” This is a massive but wonderful essay. If you’re at all interested in fonts or typography, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/20/marcin-wichary-the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
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New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Game Font Library is a library of game fonts. “Wondering what typeface was used in any given video game? Charlotte Couderc’s Game Font Library is exactly what it claims to be. You can search by game, genre, studio, typeface or even foundry.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/15/boing-boing-game-font-library-is-a-library-of-game-fonts/
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I'm torn because this is a beautiful web site that serves as a list of (freely available) fonts, but it also says "Images generated using MidJourney" and eww.