Typography & fonts

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Type foundry F37 has launched a new typeface inspired by one of Manchester’s last wooden street signs. And they worked with designer Craig Oldham and copywriter Ellen Ling to bring it to life on a series of billboards celebrating the city’s particular brand of pride.

F37 Mancunio is based on the typeface on the sign underneath the railway in St Michael’s Place. F37 founder Rick Banks was drawn to the uneven stroke endings on the ‘C’ and the ‘S’ and designer Rodrigo Fuenzalida worked it into a full typeface with nine weights and “a width axis for flexibility.”

Mancunio is named after the Roman fort that once stood in present-day Castlefield.

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Font activations (robhorning.substack.com)
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Nebula Sans (nebulasans.com)
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I quite like the new adaita font, though it has a bit less character than that new font open suse published a little while back.

But something more neutral isn't strictly a bad thing for an interface font I suppose

Hope y'all are having a good day :)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27410537

Note that there still have been no studies on its efficacy. At worst, it is a great font to avoid ambiguity between characters.

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