![]() Each time we’ve had to figure out how to address legibility/accessibility concerns without boiling out every last bit of personality from the typeface. I’ve been working on a few UI fonts for clients in recent months. The x-height got larger, the letterspacing opened up, and thus, the idea for Gimlet Sans Optical Sizes was born. ![]() ![]() It uses a little OpenType trickery to replace all text with “blah blah blah”, helping the user get some distance from messaging apps (like Slack) and unwind a bit, while still remaining logged in.īut this jokey font revealed a serious limitation of the Gimlet Sans expansion I sent out earlier that month: those four letters (and one wordspace) didn’t look great at small sizes! I didn’t bother mentioning it at the time, but I had actually modified the forms in Gimlet Sans Blah to make them feel a bit less cramped when used in a text or interface setting. ![]() Font of the Month, 2022/09 Try Buy $24 PDFĪt the very end of 2020, I issued Gimlet Sans Blah, which is probably my silliest font to date. ![]()
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