There are many articles about nice monospace typefaces, but Programming Fonts lets you see all the good ones live on-screen—and how your work looks in it. I'm a big fan of APL385, with a truly ancient pedigree, whose eccentricities land perfectly at the needs of the moment: high-dpi fixed-width legibility that's fun without drowning in nostalgia for old displays and their stupid pixels.
Test-drive nice programming fonts live on the web
Digitizing vintage proportional typewriter fonts
IBM's Selectric Composer was a special edition of the famed business-class typewriter that used proportional type instead of fixed-width characters, allowing the typist to create beautifully typeset documents that appeared… READ THE REST
State Department to switch from "woke" default Microsoft font to old British newspaper typeface
Calibri, a modern sans-serif typeface designed to be readable on screen and page alike, was commissioned by Microsoft and made the Office suite default in 2006. Secretary of State Marco… READ THE REST
Mumble Grumble: font for illegible handwriting, nonsense text and comic book tomes
Mumble Grumble is a typeface with a very specific use: filler text. Sometimes you just want something that suggests text without being text. After all, greeking or lorem ipsum read… READ THE REST
Turn your desk into a 4K workstation with this iMac for under $350
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: If you're in the market for a budget-friendly alternative for desk-based work, this refurbished 2019 21.5-inch… READ THE REST
Score 5 years of piano lessons with flowkey for only $80
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: The flowkey Piano Learning app is a fun way to pick up a new hobby. Learn… READ THE REST
Claude AI is having a moment — this $20 course helps you keep up
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: The Claude AI Professional E-Degree is on sale for $19.99 (MSRP $49) through June 14 and… READ THE REST
