Alcides Fonseca

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New Alignments and Fonts

I’ve recently come across novel approaches to typography, which given how much we are moving to digital, I find to be rarer than expected.

Alternative Layout System presents different ways of justifying text or, in the case of the picture below, ways of annotating what is coming in the next line to help reading.

Kermit is a new font designed by Underwear and commissioned by Microsoft that aims to help kids to read, including those with dyslexia. But for me, it’s much more than that. It allows to include tones in the typography that help to convey how you should read some text, making kids books much more fun.

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