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I am fascinated by typography and page design and enjoy reading about it, but I have to admit I don't understand how this level of pedantry is able to survive. The amount of documentation and attention to detail spent on typefaces and when to use them is often off the charts compared to the time spent on stuff like keeping the website running, documenting the API or even the basic functionality of the app. It's like…
What is the licensing on this? Could I use it for my personal or professional projects?
https://identity.sweden.se/en/about-this-site#abouttermsandu...
More recently I found about Finlandica for Finland, quite nice too. https://toolbox.finland.fi/brand-identity-and-guidelines/fin...
What is the licensing on this? Could I use it for my personal or professional projects?
I assume the overall branding terms cover this. https://identity.sweden.se/en/about-this-site#abouttermsandu...
Definitely limited use in scope :) Back to Noto Sans!
It's called Sweden Sans, but it appears to have serifs on at least some of the letters like lowercase i and l. Am I misunderstanding what a serif is? Or am I understanding what sans means in this context?
What you are not understanding is how corps are selling fonts. The Font is garbage.
France also has its own design system and font (Marianne): https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr/elements-d-interface/f...
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Typographic documentation is for designers generally, but there is a world where this can actually help everyone. Designers should make consistent designs. By doing this Developers can create functional designs systems that have sane default behaviors. Once you can get to that point, the system serves to reduce the load from the dev, not increase. I have created a tailwind-based design system interpretation like this…
Good points which I generally agree with, but I still think it's common to see a remarkable level of time and effort spent on typography compared to even other parts of the frontend. Not always, but surprisingly often. Many companies have these style guides around typography. Beautiful, thoughtful, very well made things for sure, yet when some backend dev makes a typo so the custom font drops to arial or whatever, it…
Not to take away from Sweden, but Estonia also has something like this: https://brand.estonia.ee/guidelines/typography/?lang=en
Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all, but the Swedish work is largely quite pretty and readable where the Estonian guidelines are an excellent of what designers do when they can get away with it or the client is too compliant / eager to be different. (source: am designer) The intro claims the character of the Estonia brand is "nordic, surprising, smart" but the Aino font in particular seems way too focused on be…
The Estonia font looks useful for designing fluorescent lighting, though. :-)
If you really wanted to improve UX, one of those things is more worthy of attention.