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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-12-23 at 17:51

Can Fit pull off this alternate g? 🤔

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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-12-21 at 14:21

It’s true that Fit has minuscules, but they are definitely not minuscule

https://djr.com/notes/novembers-font-of-the-month-fit-u-lc

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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-12-20 at 17:12

I can’t believe I didn’t do this sooner, but I drew a lowercase for Fit https://djr.com/notes/novembers-font-of-the-month-fit-u-lc

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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-10-16 at 09:57

A reminder that tomorrow, Thursday October 17 at 7pm BST, I’ll be giving The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture at St Bride Foundation! If you’re nearby, I’d be happy to see you in London, and if you’re not, there is a livestream available. Plus your ticket supports a great cause!

https://sbf.org.uk/whats-on/view/the-beatrice-warde-memorial-lecture/

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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-09-20 at 11:33

With that, I encourage you to check out:

https://djr.com/forma-mono

There you can see more specimens, download the free trial and free student license, and purchase discounted or full licenses for your professional work.

Many thanks to Ruggero for taking this project on, and to @henry and Sarah Kimball for designing the lovely web specimen!

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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-09-20 at 11:21

Following its proportionally-spaced cousin, Forma DJR Mono embodies the cleanliness and precision of midcentury design, but tempers it with subtle imperfections that come from its origins in metal type.

Monospaced typography was shaped by typewriters and early digital displays, but Forma DJR Mono is not a distressed typewriter font nor is it a purely digital creation. It exists somewhere in-between.

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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-09-20 at 11:15

In order to get every letter to occupy the same space, a monospace font distorts the proportions of the alphabet as if it were reflected in a funhouse mirror. Narrow letters like i and r are forced to be artificially wide, and wide letters like m and w are squeezed into the space.

In a typeface that is all about balance and order, Magrì’s challenge was to mitigate the effects of this stretching and squashing.

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Written by David Jonathan Ross on 2024-09-20 at 11:13

Love Forma DJR but hate all the kerning? Then Forma DJR Mono is for you!

Spearheaded by Ruggero Magrì, the typeface reconsiders my revival of Forma for use on a monospace grid.

https://djr.com/forma-mono

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