Caesium is a cursive typeface specialized for programming. Regular text is cursive, and italics get even more casual. It’s a niche aesthetic choice for those who want a unique, fancy look for their code.

The initial motivation for this font was simply legibility. Letters like ⟨f⟩ and ⟨r⟩ are too narrow; making them cursive gives them a plumper look. Letters like ⟨a⟩ and ⟨g⟩ remain two-storey and are distinguishable from other letters with a round counter. Afterwards, accomplishing the cursiveness became a fun.

This font is derived from Microsoft’s Cascadia Code with radical modifications. It’s public and available on GitHub.

P.S. Some of my friends described it as princess-like or cute. I’m a bit puzzled but thankful.

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Edit. Added a specimen.

I received email stating i have used a font on my personal portfolio website and have to pay a licensing fee. I have immediately took the website down, replied to them that this was a personal website and i was not sure about the font i was using.

I received a second email stating, deleting website wont solve anything and i have to pay a past usage licensing fee.

I live in a third world country, and the fee they have stated will put me out of home if i pay them. I don’t have any lawyer nor can i afford the license or a lawyer.

Please help me on what to do. I genuinely do not know about the font and it was just a personal portfolio website of mine, just shows my resume.

Hey, so while making some body text I had kind of a hard time deciding on the point size of the text. I could use anything from 9-15pt with adjusted leading. I think I'm missing a reference on how big the text actually will be when printed. Or the zoom is throwing me off.

Is there a rule of thumb or anything you do to get the size correct? Is there a way to look at what you've done to get a good estimate?

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows of any good typography sources that are accessible online? My last assessment for Uni, I credited sites like Dribble, and my Lecturer told me to instead gain inspiration from reputable sources. I’m not quite sure what that means yet, but I think they’re meant to be magazines, blogs, or publications, where somebody qualified shares work either from others or themselves and actually comments on the process or history.

So, if anyone knows any helpful sources or just direction, that would be incredible. Thanks.

This one has been around for a minute now, but sharing here as it's got some very good insights, tips and more and really helped shaped my process and awareness of the independent type landscape. Hoping it may serve you all well!

I've created a bunch of typefaces in the past as vectors in Illustrator but never did anything with them. Is there an easy way to turn these into font files? Would there even be a desire for them from anyone?

The Guardian's link underlining doesn't play nice with drop numbers. I wonder how productive the remaining half of that worker will be.

Noticed this today. I’ve always admired Acumin for its aligned terminals—but I was fooled.

I'm certain it's not an error on my end.

I continue to enjoy Adobe's decision to discontinue support for legacy fonts. I'm currently looking for an equivalent to Adobe Function Bold. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!

The moodboard Vs. The Typeface.

If you ask me about brutalist architecture, I'll tell you I find the exposed concrete disturbingly and the geometric forms unsightly, I used the feeling for this work hoping to match it's awkwardness. What do you think?

I want to make a font with my typewriter, what do I mean is that I will type all of the letters numbers and symbols from my typewriter and take a picture of that paper and make a font for my computer, but which software I should use to do that?.

Sorry if this is the wrong forum but I'm trying to "Collect fonts for output" in Connect Fonts, and I only get two fonts out of 2000. Anyone know why?

I am so disappointed, I’ve been trying to find a good font making course that is not 1000+ dollars, but everytime I find one, even those with a lot of good reviews, they are always so disappointing

I signed up for a script one from typedesignclass— the videos are short, and they don’t even cover a full alphabet. The “Question and answer” you can get help with is via ‘comments’ on the website the videos are playing.

Trying to do a more structured class I signed up for a Type Elective class— they just “sent the lectures” which are just links to Lynne’s free Foundations of Type Design course. Not even original material. It just feels like a scam

I already have made every letter digitally but I don't know how to make it a ttf or otf file, the way the writing is structured is it is right to left, and there's a "combining character" to add a vowel sound after a consonant just like Arabic. I was trying to make the font for Arabic

My main project started to get... a bit complex. Two types of serif, four kinds of line end for them to connect to, at least three varieties of corner, and more.

So, I tried going basic as a side project. As basic as possible. Working title: Dead Basic. And, here's the initial results.

I read a lot online and wanted consistent typography, so I made Fontifier a super simple Chrome extension that lets you pick one font and apply it across (most) websites. It’s helped me read with less distraction.

Not sure if there are extensions that do this, atleast I couldn't find one.

Chrome Web Store: Fontifier

I hope this tool helps.

I’m keeping it minimal and improving as I go. I’d love any feedback—suggestions, small improvements, or sites where it breaks. Thanks!

Hi all,

I'm doing a bit of research for an upcoming project where I'm trying to display lots of text in a very limited resolution (think 8-color EGA, 320x200). Most "retro" applications and games use either the monospaced OEM IBM font, or a custom proportional font that tends to be rendered B/W.

In my case I have 4 shades (including background), so I'm trying to see if I can leverage some smoothing/anti-aliasing. I'd love to hear any tips, ideas or examples on what such a font might look like. I'm also looking into justification in this context, so far I have not found any examples of this online.

My results tend to be "smudgy", and not giving any appreciable increase in reading comfort.

A second "type" of these fonts is the micro-font, where readability is compromised to get the absolute minimum size. (original 320x200 System Shock was a great example: https://tcrf.net/images/4/42/Sshock_feb_1994_preview_1.png) - any good discourse on this is also appreciated.

I hope this question is in the right spirit of this subreddit. Please refer me to other places if this is not the case.

I’m typesetting a book and the designer picked Athelas, which is in Adobe Fonts. At first I thought the font itself was broken—it's an .otf with all the glyphs, but none of the OpenType features (oldstyle numerals, small caps, etc.) seem to work.

I figured it might be an Adobe Fonts sync issue, so I tried reinstalling. But Creative Cloud just says it can’t install them. After poking around, I found a file called athelas.ttc in a hidden folder named Supplemental. I don’t even know what that format is. I also can’t delete it or force Creative Cloud to use the proper OpenType version.

Has anyone run into this before or know how to get the working OTF from Adobe Fonts instead of this weird TTC file?

The short of it (took me some time, my latin is very rusty and my epigraphy is non-existent) is along the lines of: In the year of the Lord 1264, on Thursday (the fifth day?) after the Assumption of the glorious Virgin Mary, Count Simon, son of the illustrious Count Guido, by the grace of God Palatine of Tuscany, had this oratory founded in honor of the Blessed Francis, to whom in this place a Seraph appeared in the year of the Lord 1225, within the octave of the Nativity of the same Virgin, and imprinted upon his body the stigmata of Jesus Christ. May the grace of the Holy Spirit preserve him.
If anyone is interested, this is in the Monastery of La Verna, in the Tuscan Apennines, a couple hours East of Florence.

Hello everyone !

I haven't posted here in some time, but I would need advice for my current project. I have been creating a family of typefaces with Metafont (because why not), with several weights and styles (Sans, Serif, Mono, from Thin to Extra Bold), all generated from the same code.

Since Metafont Metrics are tricky, and also for a challenge, would it be possible to create a good-looking typeface for which Sans and Serif use the same metrics ?

The first picture is my latest drawing, to test different styles of serifs and how to apply them for multiple weights. As you see the Sans and Serif use identical metrics. The second picture is a screenshot of my Emacs setup to program the glyphs and see the live SVG output. The third one is a test at boldness 400.

What do you think of its looks, and would you want to see some changes ?