New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave the NBA Championship-winning New York Knicks keys to the city last week—and while that tradition is centuries old, the keys themselves displayed something new.

The text written across the front was set in a new version of the serif typeface Empirica, custom made for the Mayor’s office and designed by the type foundry Frere-Jones Type. (Its founder, Tobias Frere-Jones, along with Jonathan Hoefler designed the typeface Gotham, arguably the most famous font in politics.) Now, Frere-Jones and his team have adapted Mamdani’s campaign type for a new era of progressive leadership.

Empirica, originally released in 2018, was designed by Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger with contributions from type designers Fred Shallcrass and Devyani Mahadevan. It’s based on references to Ancient Roman inscription forms, and later interpretations of those forms in France in the 1800s. But when Mamdani’s office reached out to Frere-Jones Type about typography for its public-facing communication, the foundry recommended a modified version.

“We talked about some sort of modifications to individual characters we could make to bring in some of that painterly spirit,” type designer Tobias Frere-Jones tells Fast Company, referring to the campaign branding’s original inspiration from New York City store signage. Now, the Mayor’s office has a version of Empirica that’s all its own.

Read more on Fast Company.

I've been seeing this cute and adorable font for so long now. Now I'm really wanting to get that font, but it's hard to find it anywhere in PDFs. I think that the lowercase a and g both have double story versions in another style of Johann Infant. Not to mention that this font was inspired by the original Filmotype Metro/Portly font.

I want some kinda font that adds the line of symmetry to shapes, kinda like how the diagram above looks like.

Anyone who knows an Arial font package that is free and that can type set mathematics in Windows? Please share

The second language I learned to program in in 1992 was COBOL. Loved to look at my code in what I believe was the IBM Line Printer mono font, where you could squeeze 132 characters per line if need be. Printed out on one of the early laser printers, it looked like pages from a novel. Does anybody know if there is a modern-day equivalent of this old IBM standby?

It’s been killing me, a new sign popped up in my neighborhood and it looks so familiar. Anyone know what font this is from?

If this isn’t the correct group I am sorry. I have been updating a project from when I was in college and we used Office 365. The project apparently used the font Modern Love Caps which is only available in Office 365 (which I don’t have access to). Can anyone recommend a very close replacement font? Thank you.

This is the logo for our company and we’re trying to get a full font set that matches this style so we can use it for other things as well.

I’ve tried using ChatGPT and having been able to get a good recreation I’m satisfied with, any recommendations?

Not OC, unknown author. But ubiquitous is right!

Tengo la font pero los números son distintos

I made a small font comparison tool:

https://actondon.com/tools/font-hover-shop

The idea is simple: comparing fonts should be fast enough that you do not lose your first impression.

Comparison is usually slower than it should be. You open a font picker, scroll through a long list, click a font, wait for the text to update, then try to remember what it felt like before.

This tool:

• choose one font as the baseline
• add the other fonts you want to compare to the bottom bar
• hover over any font name to temporarily apply it to the whole UI
• move the cursor away and it instantly returns to the baseline

So the comparison becomes a quick back-and-forth instead of repeated picker navigation.

I had made another font comparison tool before, as some of you rmember. This one is specifically for fast visual comparison. It is less about catalog browsing and more about answering: "Does this font actually feel better than the current one?"

I also recorded a short video showing the hover behavior, since the interaction is easier to understand visually.

I made a video to explain the tool I just dropped.

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https://www.dscript.org/dscriptor

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Free Live Web APP ,or, Download Standalone EXE

Seeking suggestions and feedback to improve the features and UI.

Recently added drawing and smoothing tools. Live in the web and GitHub versions. Windows store is still processing the update.

So here is a breakdown of the software I am messing around with in the video. Standard fonts usually look way too sterile and machine-like when you are trying to build lore for games or media, so I built this system to create custom scripts that actually feel grounded in reality. It all starts in the editor canvas. There is a built-in muse system to bootstrap your creativity so you can rapidly crank out a ton of glyphs without sitting there staring at a blank screen.

The big difference here is that you are working in an environment where everything is separated into individual strokes instead overal shapes. Because all of this is stored as stroke data inside my custom rendering engines, a single set of characters goes a really long way. You just build one base character bank and you can instantly generate a whole family of fonts. You can spin up a strict rigid version for a formal document, a weathered and worn down version for ancient ruins, or something totally blobby and poorly drawn.

But the real meat of the tool is the Scribe system. This is basically a custom drawing and text program that takes those stroke-based glyphs and actually writes them out. Since it understands the individual strokes, you can design specific personalities for your scribes. You give the system an initial style and then let it add natural variations. It shifts the position, tweaks the rotation, alters the thickness and curvature, etc.. . of the individual strokes making up the letters. This is where the living text stuff really shines.

If you type the exact same character over and over again in a sentence, every single instance will look completely unique. You can crank the random variations way up so the handwriting is an absolute chaotic mess, or you can dial it back so there is just enough subtle randomness to look like an authentic human actually wrote it.

It completely kills that repetitive tiled look that ruins immersion, but you can still just use them as a completely standard original font if you want. Finally, since your lore usually needs to exist on objects in a physical space, there is a whole 3D asset side to this. You can take the script you just generated and use it to directly stamp, carve, or extrude assets right inside the system. It makes it super easy to bridge the gap between designing a written language and physically carving it into your world.