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Alright Sans is a contemporary grotesk typeface. Simple and clean, with a warm, slightly humanist flavour, Alright Sans is fresh take on the traditional sans-serif. With a robust set of typographic features and 16 styles, Alright is ready to be used for just about anything.

An excellent new blog post by Hoefler & Frere-Jones titled: New Fonts: A Graphic Designer’s Perspective.

staff:

Now testing: Upload photos in Text posts

Take it for a spin!  Let us know if you catch anything acting funny.

Wow. This is perfect. No more posting a “Photo” when you really want to post some “Text”.

benjaminf:

So is the Dropbox iPhone app out yet?

Jonathan Perez’s stunning ornament typeface, Cadence.

A sneak peak at Kris Sowersby’s upcoming sans, Karbon.

Carolyn Sewell’s Pedestrian ‘Typography’ Flickr collection.

fuckyeahtypography:

A typography cheatsheet for font comparison - historical fonts.

fuckyeahtypography:

I love nice cards.

Hand Typeset Invitation in 18 point and 24 point Centaur Italic. (via Flickr)

davidkaneda:

Typophile user, Miha, has created a fantastic case study for subpixel rendering. While the sample on the right looks discolored and messy blown up at this size, it actually looks better scaled down — far better than the current Youtube favicon. (via @matthewbuchanan)

The resultsspeak for themselves. The sub-pixel rendering looks fantastically better.

Starbucks Card Mobile gives users a virtual Starbucks Card and in 16 select stores in Silicon Valley and Seattle, users will be able to use this app to pay for their drinks. The app will display a barcode that the baristas at these stores will be able to scan. (via Now There’s Even an App That Lets You Pay for Coffee at Starbucks and dvint1)