That's it, I hate that site, if I try to pinch to zoom on my trackpad I get some scrolling on top of the zoom because all the modern jazz that powers animations also has some scrolling shenanigans.

If you wanna see everything they have easily, you're forced to a paginated view. You only get to see Aa unless you hover, you don't have an easy to scan list view, if something is part of a superfamily you have to enter that page and see the other versions of the typeface.

I'm fine with sites that are not 100% functional, after all, you can diferenciate them when browsing on directories like https://www.are.na/upstatement/foundries-fsiti-zqvdk it also gives you a sense of what they do, some are more suited for anti-design, and yet are somehow functional like https://www.fullautofoundry.com/ other sites have small catalogs of 10 fonts or less, so a grid view is fine. Some like https://lineto.com/typefaces while give you a lot of info, it overstimulates you displaying every single weight, with 4 columns, making things quite small and not easy to discern. Compare with sites like https://f37foundry.com/ also has lots of fonts, but families are grouped with the same color, you have weights behind just a click without having to jump into another page if you're not sure what you're looking for.

I know there are even worse websites, for example https://typotheque.luuse.fun/ problem is even greater as they group many typefaces just because they're made by the same person, but have little to do with each other, some parts are small paragraphs, others are just a single word. https://altiplano.xyz despite looking somehow functional, has some typefaces hidden under some family (I remember the browser company uses one of their fonts but you could never tell if I didn't tell you it's called "Millionare", go look for it) but for a foundry with so many "greatest hits" like PP I feel their user experience could be better.

Some other sites like https://www.fontshare.com/ are amazing, I see having such a big display size also has cons like scrolling, but on the flipside, you get to find out quickly pro features such as tabular figures, alternates and so on.

It's clear these wepages have been created by professionals, and I understand how much work it takes, I wish in the future I could create some webpage with all those features and more granular control, not just the avility to choose "geometric" but also subgenres like under geometric futura vs bayer's universal vs Microgramma/Eurostyle like and so on, like fontsinuse or the now defunct https://experiments.withgoogle.com/font-map which was a great idea, but having everything in a two dimensional map might not be the best and again just havin Aa is very limited, but again I'm going on a tangent. I started with foundries webpages to end up about font discovery sites.

I thought I'd be able to type using modern Hebrew and have the letters automatically work themselves out (like 𐤒 if I typed ק). I tried looking at my google keyboard thing for a phoenecian input but I don't think there is one. How do I get this font to work? Thanks a lot

I am looking to a service that would add &nbsp or line breaks or the right length hyphens to text in English to use on slide decks.

I only know of Russian services doing typography checks, googling English services gives me all possible lorem ipsum generators or font edit tools, but not text editing things.

InDesign is also an overkill for what i want. Need some online tool.

A bloke who is new to design. Sees a million different fonts, with it, creates some abominations and some classics.

Any recommendation for this bloke to choose fonts appropriately? Most of the guides, tell the fundamentals of typography; serif, sans-serif kerning (i like this word), leading, x-height and lots more. But nobody tells how to choose the fonts for various occasions?

It's a romantic movie poster? Where do I go, where do I look? How do I choose various combinations?

What would you recommend, for a newbie bloke to have an eye for appropriate fonts?

Hey all - working on a listing for a mini heater we manufacture. I'm using REOST for the heading (and logo). What would compliment this for the text in the middle bubbles that will talk about the features? I tried Reost for this part as well and it seemed too redundant. What would be a good match?

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The system's font manager shows me the fonts I have installed but it doesn't let me insert sample text.

Searching Reddit led me to two more options, which both don't work. Wordmark.it lets me insert sample text but only displays my default system fonts. Fontbase doesn't show me anything I have installed at all and seems to just be a font catalogue in app form.

Does such a program that lets me see how any text I insert looks in every font, system or downloaded, I have installed exist or am I asking for too much?

Hello hello,

I've been playing around with an existing font to learn about variable type. It only has 4 weights and it's missing both the low and top end in terms of weights. These all seem to render just fine within Glyps but the Thin and Extra Bold don't work when exported. The instances within the masters (green) work jsut fine but the two outside the masters (red) don't work.

Can this be done? I don't really want to dive into making more masters.

Thanks!

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Title. Any recommendations for a typeface which supports IPA (assuming that would support Latin characters as well), Japanese and Bengali? Ideally speaking, it would be nice if one typeface gets the job done, but in case no such typeface exists, recommendations for independent typefaces are welcome too. I would be prefer it to be sans serif (it's for a ppt - there won't be a lot of text in Bengali and Japanese, most of it would be Latin/IPA).

I'm searching for tips and resources on how to design clean, readable, elegant tables. Anny suggestion?

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A while back I was listening to some music and I noticed the Album Art for Yama's "The Meaning of Life" and I thought the typeface was extremely curious, but was unable to find it anywhere online with a cursory search. Throughout the day I found myself doodling the letter forms as I did my work. By the end of the day I felt I had a pretty good set of all the characters, so I decided to figure out more of the proportions and try to get as close as I could with a full alphabet. This ended up being the result.

https://preview.redd.it/crzlsqqa2czd1.png?width=1748&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc4f7169889711b3242b89c5103a3549aeb1a2b3

Do you have recommendations for reputable typeface design courses for someone who has some level of self taught knowledge but no formal training? Something which can be done in spare time and remotely?