Articles
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Alternative Typefaces
Sick of Helvetica? Sick of Gotham? The professor always recommends Rotis? Typefacts helps! Here I show you the best alternatives to old-established and inflationary used fonts: “Helvetica is like …
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Degree, Feet, Inches, Minutes, Seconds
The Degree Sign ° Degree U+00B0 ⇧ + ⌥ + 8 Alt + 248 ℉ Degree Fahrenheit Sign U+2109 — — ℃ Degree Celsius Sign U+2103 — — The degree sign appears most frequently in temperature and …
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Kerning Test
In addition to the letter shapes, it is also to a large extent the spacing between them that makes for an even typeface - and thus a good typeface. Each character has its width, but if you simply …
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Here you find all special characters that are accessible via the British/American keyboard. I compiled them in groups that I find quite sensible, most important ones on the top. Windows Input Method …
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Nicer Tweets
Why limit your tweets to what’s accessible through the keyboard? With emoji and symbol keyboards, access to fancier stuff never was easier. Typefacts still likes to show you what’s possible beyond …
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Page Proportions
Not only the size, but also the page proportion is decisive for whether a book is perceived as pleasant. In Bücher machen (see also the Typographic Canon), Jost Hochuli lists some tried-and-true …
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Paper Sizes
Typefacts shows the most important paper sizes. Looking for an overview of page proportions? You will find it here. DIN formats according to ISO 216/ DIN 476 DIN formats are used all over the world. …
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Ampersand
The ampersand, also called Kaufmanns-Und and Et-sign in German, is a “particularly intimate fusion of letters” (Tschichold) of the letters » e « and » t « (Latin “et” = …