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 data into diagrams in just a few clicks with this $13 Microsoft tool (MSRP $250)
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Present information more clearly with this lifetime license to Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional for Windows for only… READ THE REST
Refresh your PC with Microsoft Office and Windows 11 for just $26
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Get MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $25.99 (reg. $428). You can… READ THE REST
Lock in 1 year of premium protection with ExpressVPN for only $40
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: This 1-year subscription to the ExpressVPN Basic Plan includes access to advanced protection features like ExpressMailGuard and… READ THE REST
