With FontDrop! I made a little web application that shows the content of a font file. Just drop a .otf, .ttf ot .woff-file to see what’s inside of them. I thought it would be fun to have a look in some files and and to show some cool fonts on…

Babetta is a decorative typeface, based on an old neon sign and some Art-Deco-flavoured influences. — Just around the corner from where I live in Berlin is a big street, an architectural ensemble, of imposing residential buildings and associated shops — a monument of the so called Zuckerbäckerstil (Socialist classicism).The whole thing was built in the late 50s and 60s, after the area was destroyed in…

FF Attribute is a type family of seven weights and an extended character set. The typeface comes in a monospaced version and a non-monospaced version. In 2015, while working on a little side project, I spent a lot of time in the code editor instead of, as usual, in Photoshop…

How many characters does a font include? Who designed it? Which version is it? What about the copyright? Font files can be highly complex and very large files, with many glyphs, supporting dozens of languages, rich in features — or they can be very small, containing just a few icons…