{"id":325,"date":"2017-05-15T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=325"},"modified":"2017-05-15T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:07:06","slug":"this-is-cool-if-youre-a-typography-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/this-is-cool-if-youre-a-typography-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"This is cool (if you&#8217;re a typography nerd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_326\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fontmap.ideo.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-326\" class=\"size-large wp-image-326\" src=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.55.29-AM-1024x838.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.55.29-AM-1024x838.png 1024w, https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.55.29-AM-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.55.29-AM-768x629.png 768w, https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.55.29-AM-980x802.png 980w, https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.55.29-AM.png 1427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portion of the fontmap of Google Fonts generated by a designer from Ideo (<a href=\"http:\/\/fontmap.ideo.com\">http:\/\/fontmap.ideo.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kevin Ho, software design lead at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideo.com\/\">Ideo<\/a>, created a fascinating tool to explore the 750+ typefaces available on <a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\">Google Fonts<\/a>. I&#8217;m not a designer,<sup>1<\/sup> and I use only a small number of fonts,<sup>2<\/sup> so I don&#8217;t need this tool, but I&#8217;ve been fascinated by printing and typography for several decades. I can&#8217;t stop playing with this fontmap, and I had to share the fun. There&#8217;s a nice article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/90111599\/a-map-of-the-typographic-universe-drawn-by-ai?utm_content=buffer7b288&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Fast Company<\/a> describing the project and how Ho used two open source algorithms to create it. Maybe future versions of Word will provide a fontmap to explore choices instead of vertical lists.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<small><sup>1<\/sup>If you know me, you know how clumsy I am and how little artistic or design ability I have. You can stop laughing at me now.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><sup>2<\/sup>Optima is my font of choice for nearly all of my professional correspondence.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Ho, software design lead at Ideo, created a fascinating tool to explore the 750+ typefaces available on Google Fonts. I&#8217;m not a designer,1 and I use only a small&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/this-is-cool-if-youre-a-typography-nerd\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}