I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to take the typography for my website and blog, since I can probably do better than Helvetica. I still want to make sure my site pages are small and that load times are fast, but I think I can still keep those and do something a little more unique. I think I’ll leave the body text as Helvetica, but I want a stronger font for the page titles. Maybe something grotesk? Or blackletter?
Some of my typography bookmarks:
In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now in our collection.
https://letterformarchive.org/news/milwaukee-transit-passes/
Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.
https://shifthappens.site/
A new way to license typefaces while they are still in progress.
https://www.futurefonts.com/
A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.
https://fontsinuse.com/