The article chronicles a ten‑year evolution of Google Sans, detailing seven concrete design challenges—from mismatched product lock‑screens and marketing limitations to multilingual support and expressive flexibility—that drove iterative font development and culminated in an open‑source release.
This article introduces Ideogram, a free AI image tool that can instantly create high‑quality graphics with integrated text, walks through its simple two‑step workflow, showcases font and poster design examples, compares results with Midjourney, and discusses current limitations and pricing.
The article introduces Intel's open‑source monospaced font Intel One Mono, explains its design goals for readability and eye‑protection, shows how to install and compare it with other fonts, and provides a brief guide to creating and using custom fonts on macOS and Linux environments.
This article examines Alibaba’s AliMama “Smart Font” project, detailing how AI‑driven pipelines, few‑shot generation, and open‑source toolkits are used to create commercial Chinese typefaces, enable font subsetting, and explore dynamic and variable‑font technologies for modern digital media.
This article chronicles the end‑to‑end process of designing and releasing the “Smile” Chinese typeface for 58.com, covering the challenges of creating a 3500‑character glyph library, the design philosophy, collaborative workflow, standardization tools, encoding, and the final launch.
This article chronicles JD's journey of creating a proprietary brand typeface—from the strategic need for visual consistency, through early DIY experiments and scaling challenges, to a professional partnership with Fangzheng, rule refinement, variable‑font prospects, and the broader impact on brand identity.
This article outlines a practical workflow for Chinese typography, covering font analysis, selection, structural reconstruction, visual integration, and readability testing through real-world case studies, helping designers create compelling and recognizable text graphics.
This article explores how careful font selection, Chinese‑Western typeface separation, punctuation spacing, and the four core design principles of proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast together create clear, visually appealing typography for both small and large text blocks.
The article explores the author's experiments combining artificial intelligence with typography, detailing the development of algorithms that measure font attributes, compute similarity scores, and generate rule‑based design systems, while reflecting on the challenges, inspirations, and future possibilities of AI‑driven font selection and design.
This article explores the 1982 Hong Kong MTR signage manual created by type designer Ko Chi‑Kin, detailing its handcrafted design process, distinctive "Metro Song" font features, and lasting influence on contemporary typographic standards and station signage.
