Jane Solomon
@janesolomon.bsky.social
👁 Typeface Designer at Lettermatic.com 👁 Word Panelist at Scripps National Spelling Bee 👁 Ex-Lexicographer 👁 Lapsed Emoji Expert 👁 Author of The Dictionary of Difficult Words 👁
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👋Hello. I’m a typeface designer now and this was my first project.
New Work: Fonts for Fetch. 🔡 🐕 🔠
We made a custom type system comprised of a workhorse sans and friendly serif for one of the most popular shopping apps in the USA. Read the full case study here:
lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...
We made a custom type system comprised of a workhorse sans and friendly serif for one of the most popular shopping apps in the USA. Read the full case study here:
lettermatic.com/custom/fetch...
March 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
👋Hello. I’m a typeface designer now and this was my first project.
Great article by @jasonli.bsky.social on digital typefaces made in Hong Kong. This includes Prison Gothic, a project based on road signs around the city made by incarcerated people in the 1970s to 1990s.
March 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great article by @jasonli.bsky.social on digital typefaces made in Hong Kong. This includes Prison Gothic, a project based on road signs around the city made by incarcerated people in the 1970s to 1990s.
Geometric sans fonts like Helvetica are popular, but having letter terminations perfectly aligned can make a font more difficult to read.
For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type.
For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type.
It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why:
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February 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Geometric sans fonts like Helvetica are popular, but having letter terminations perfectly aligned can make a font more difficult to read.
For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type.
For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type.
Here’s my ✨neofuturist✨ reading of Clueless that absolutely no one asked for.
a woman is applying makeup in a classroom while a man is smoking a cigarette in the background .
Alt: Cher from the movie Clueless looks off into the middle distance.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Here’s my ✨neofuturist✨ reading of Clueless that absolutely no one asked for.
Cow do you do, fellow kids?
November 22, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Cow do you do, fellow kids?