Good Glyphs
Source: https://goodglyphs.com
20/06/2020
The typeface of the day is Good Glyphs, a dingbat typeface released in May as a collaborative project led by Violet Office, all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. There are contributions from 32 designers*.
Seeing the characters change between the upper and lower case is very satisfying. If anything, it’s worth getting for “Y” and “y”: a chain linked and a chain broken. Chains are genius ideas for dingbat characters, a way to make a single long connected picture through the process of typing. I’m about to wear out my Y key just from pressing it over and over again. There’s something very pleasing about hitting a key on your keyboard and having a tiny piece of art pop up. It’s a lot more fun than a touch screen with emojis. It feels like playing with a barnyard animal toy in which a button makes a cow moo or a horse neigh. All Dingbats fonts should come with sound effects. So yeah, buy it.
*Contributions from Michael Willis, Shawn Carney, Benjamin Critton, Caroline David, Caroline Ackerman, Rob Engval, Oliver Shaw, Michael Boswell, John Caserta, Becca Abbe, Justin Sloane, Kristian Henson, Luiza Dale, Pablo Rochat, Mary Banas, Vance Wellenstein, Matt Borgia, Rosa Aamunkoi, Stephanie Specht, Anthony Picarelli, Diego Funken & Nico Funken, Mark Waterman, Panny Chayapumh, Johnny Selman, Calvin Waterman, Ted Guerrero, Max Ackerman, Mike Kippenhan, James Tae, Sho Shibuya, Michael Boswell & John Provencher, Violet Office.