The Vibeary — tag

typography

69 resources in The Vibeary tagged "typography" — tools, libraries and references pulled from across the library's shelves, each one checked by hand before it was added.

Gems in this collection

Preview of Fonts In Use

Fonts In Use

Archive of typography in the wild, indexed by typeface, industry and format, with editorial notes from type experts.

Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles & Nick Shermanfree
Preview of Pimp My Type

Pimp My Type

Typography site with font reviews, pairing articles and video breakdowns aimed specifically at UI designers and developers.

Oliver Schöndorfer (@glyphstories)freemium
Preview of Freefaces

Freefaces

Curated gallery of typefaces released under free licenses, presented with proper type specimens.

Unknownfree
Preview of Type Check

Type Check

Free browser tool that grades a site's typography — sizes, line height, measure, contrast — and explains each fix.

Oliver Schöndorfer (@glyphstories)free
Preview of FontSpace

FontSpace

Library of 160,000+ free fonts with 19,000 cleared for commercial use, each licence manually verified before listing.

FontSpace, LLCfree
Preview of Splitting.js

Splitting.js

Microlibrary that splits elements by word, character, line, grid or image and populates CSS custom properties for index-based staggering.

Shaw Brown (@shshaw)MIT
Preview of H1 Gallery

H1 Gallery

Collection of website hero headlines and H1 treatments, focused on type scale and opening statements.

Corey Haines (@coreyhainesco)free
Preview of Brand Estonia

Brand Estonia

National brand system with logo grids, typography, photography direction and downloadable asset kits for a whole country.

Republic of Estoniafree
Preview of Typo/graphic Posters

Typo/graphic Posters

Curated archive of typographic poster design submitted by designers worldwide.

André Felipefree
Preview of Butterick's Practical Typography

Butterick's Practical Typography

Complete typography manual written as a hypertext book, with opinionated rules on measure, spacing, and type choice.

Matthew Butterick (@mbutterick)free
Preview of Better Web Type

Better Web Type

Free seven-day email course plus articles on web typography: modular scales, pairing, vertical rhythm and typeface anatomy.

Matej Latin (@matejlatin)freemium
Preview of jakubkrehel/skills

jakubkrehel/skills

Agent skill files targeting specific design aspects such as animation timing and typographic detail.

Jakub Krehel (@jakubkrehel)open-source
Preview of AnimateText

AnimateText

SwiftUI library for per-character text animations with a set of preset entry effects.

jasudevMIT
Preview of AstroPaper

AstroPaper

Minimal accessible Astro blog theme with fuzzy search, tags, light and dark modes and strong typographic defaults.

Sat Naing (@satnaing)MIT
Preview of Type Scale

Type Scale

Visual modular scale calculator that previews heading sizes and emits the corresponding CSS custom properties.

Jeremy Church (@jeremy_church)free
Preview of Modern Font Stacks

Modern Font Stacks

Fifteen curated CSS font-family stacks using only system-installed typefaces, with per-stack Unicode coverage tables and live previews.

Dan Klammer (@danklammer)free
Preview of awesome-fonts

awesome-fonts

Curated list of typography tools, font resources, foundries and web font tooling.

@brabaduopen-source
Preview of Chiri

Chiri

Very minimal Astro blog theme with restrained type, subtle interactions and almost no visual chrome.

the3ash (@the3ash)MIT
Preview of Apple Fonts Collection

Apple Fonts Collection

Extracted collection of Apple's official system typefaces, San Francisco and New York included, packaged for development use.

0xsharkboyfree
Preview of nelson.co

nelson.co

Gavin Nelson's personal site and portfolio built with Next.js, notable for restrained typography and layout.

Gavin Nelson (@gavinmn)open-source
Preview of SplitType

SplitType

Splits text nodes into line, word and character wrappers with CSS classes so any engine can animate them.

Luke Peavey (@lukePeavey)MIT
Preview of tailwindcss-fluid-type

tailwindcss-fluid-type

Tailwind plugin generating fluid, viewport-scaled type scales using clamp with configurable ratios.

David Hellmann (@davidhellmann)MIT
Preview of Retypeset

Retypeset

Astro blog theme built around typography: multilingual support, serif type scale and print-inspired layout.

radishzzz (@radishzzz)MIT
Preview of Calligraph

Calligraph

Fluid text transition component powered by Motion, animating between arbitrary strings with per-character flow.

Raphael Salaja (@raphaelsalaja)open-source
Preview of Scientific Visualisation: Python & Matplotlib

Scientific Visualisation: Python & Matplotlib

Open-access book on the theory and craft of scientific figures, with full source for every figure.

Nicolas Rougier (@NPRougier)open-source
Preview of Pharos

Pharos

JSTOR's design system with web components, editorial typography rules and academic-content layout patterns.

JSTOR (ITHAKA)open-source
Preview of Fontsy

Fontsy

Browser tool for creating and editing custom bitmap fonts for Bitsy games, exporting the font data directly.

Sean S. LeBlanc (@sean_leblanc)MIT
Preview of TextDistortionEffects

TextDistortionEffects

Demo set of SVG and shader-driven distortion effects applied to headline typography on interaction.

Codrops / Manoela Ilic (@crnacura)MIT
Preview of Typewolf

Typewolf

Ongoing catalogue of real websites annotated with the exact fonts used, plus font-pairing and alternative recommendations.

Jeremiah Shoaf (@typewolf)free
Preview of griffo

griffo

Kerning-aware text splitting for React that preserves letter-spacing when splitting into characters for staggered animation.

(@dimicx)MIT
Preview of Typograf

Typograf

Applies typographic correction to Figma text - proper quotes, dashes, non-breaking spaces - across a selection.

Gleb Olmakov (@golmakov)open-source
Preview of Design Books

Design Books

Curated reading list covering usability, design systems, typography and interface craft rather than general business books.

Bridger Towerfree
Preview of Best Free Fonts

Best Free Fonts

Gallery restricted to fonts under the SIL Open Font License, filtering out fake-free listings.

Unknownfree
Preview of vintage-latex

vintage-latex

Twenty LuaLaTeX and MetaPost examples of vintage scientific-paper aesthetics: plates, star charts, log tables, knots.

@Foadsfopen-source
Preview of Astrotypes

Astrotypes

Curated font pairings for Astro with one-command install via the Astro Fonts API, Tailwind or plain CSS.

Michael Andreuzza (@michael-andreuzza)MIT
Preview of Yingzao

Yingzao

Claude/Codex skill that turns place and culture photos into art-directed Chinese editorial posters with composition, type, and reference gates.

@op7418open-source
Preview of Korean Layout Compositions

Korean Layout Compositions

277-card atlas of composition principles, with Hangul typesetting and original Korean traditional layouts generated from JSON diagrams.

GOMGOM (@worlyung)open-source
Preview of HandDrawnFont

HandDrawnFont

Browser font creator and SwiftUI package that draws letters from real pen strokes, keeping original stroke order and timing.

Jip van der Velde (@jipvandervelde)unknown
Preview of Utopia

Utopia

Calculators that generate fluid type, space and grid scales interpolating between a small and large viewport, so layouts scale without breakpoints.

James Gilyead & Trys Mudford (@trysmudford)free
Preview of weid

weid

CSS-only convention marking which sentences in AI-assisted text are human: three span classes render as solid, dashed and dotted underlines.

Tomás Gauthier (@tomasgauthier)MIT
Preview of Rebrand Gallery

Rebrand Gallery

Gallery of identity relaunches with reveal videos, filterable by industry, style, typeface and mood, plus packaging, signage and guideline shots.

Sahkyofreemium
Preview of YouWorkForThem Fonts

YouWorkForThem Fonts

Type marketplace carrying 250,000+ fonts from independent designers and foundries, with one-time desktop and web licensing and no subscription.

YouWorkForThempaid
Preview of Chinese Font Selector

Chinese Font Selector

Agent skill for picking CJK typefaces: licence-tiered commercial-safe font list, scene-by-mood selection matrix, and CJK–Latin pairing rules.

@Songzhi-labMIT
Preview of dizzy.systems

dizzy.systems

Bootstraps a project's font, colour and spacing scales into a coherent starting system before you write components.

dizzyfree
Preview of Use & Modify

Use & Modify

Collection of open-source typefaces explicitly licensed to be modified and redistributed.

Raphaël Bastideopen-source
Preview of Book Cover Archive

Book Cover Archive

Archive of book cover designs with credits for designer, art director and publisher.

Ben Pieratt & Eric Jacobsenfree
Preview of Axis-Praxis Resources

Axis-Praxis Resources

Catalog of variable-font tools and references — playgrounds, inspectors like Samsa, axis-mapping editors, and CodePen collections for animating font axes.

Laurence Penney (@lorp)free
Preview of Acorn

Acorn

Email framework built on golden-ratio typography and a matching vertical rhythm system.

ThemeMountainopen-source
Preview of Httpster

Httpster

Long-running showcase of sites picked for strong typography and efficient, unfussy layouts rather than award-bait effects.

Domfree
Preview of The Good Line-Height

The Good Line-Height

Single-purpose calculator that derives a fluid, size-aware line-height instead of a fixed unitless multiplier.

Jesse Rosenbergerfree
Preview of Programming Design Systems

Programming Design Systems

Free interactive book teaching graphic design fundamentals — colour, shape, typography, grids — through executable code examples.

Rune Madsen (@runemadsen)free
Preview of Font Friday

Font Friday

Biweekly newsletter recommending one standout typeface with a critique of its details and practical usage notes.

Oliver Schöndorfer (@glyphstories)free
Preview of v-fonts

v-fonts

Reference catalogue of 377 variable fonts with live axis sliders, filterable by axes, script coverage and license.

Nick Sherman (@nicksherman)free
Preview of Batch Styler

Batch Styler

Edits many Figma text or color styles at once - change font family, weight or size across a whole type ramp.

Jan Six (@six7)free
Preview of The Grid System

The Grid System

Reference archive of grid-based design: systems, calculators, templates, tutorials, book recommendations and downloadable layout resources.

The Grid Systemfree
Preview of KRDS

KRDS

Korean government design system covering components, typography and Hangul-specific typographic and spacing rules.

Korean Governmentfree
Preview of Variable Font Playground

Variable Font Playground

Side-by-side variable font specimen tester with per-axis sliders and instant CSS font-variation-settings output.

Unknownfree
Preview of Libre Fonts by Womxn

Libre Fonts by Womxn

Curated index of libre typefaces designed by women and non-binary type designers, with direct source links.

Unknownopen-source
Preview of Tiff

Tiff

Overlays two typefaces on top of each other so you can see exactly where their letterforms differ.

Winnie MuMIT
Preview of Font Playground

Font Playground

Experimental interface for variable fonts with novel axis controls, letting you explore designspace beyond simple sliders.

Wenting Zhangfree
Preview of Font Style Matcher

Font Style Matcher

Side-by-side tool for matching a web font's metrics to a fallback font to eliminate layout shift on load.

Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf)free
Preview of FontSpark

FontSpark

Rapid-fire font discovery that shows one random typeface at a time so you judge by feel instead of scrolling a grid.

Unknownfree
Preview of UNCUT

UNCUT

Curated library of contemporary free and libre typefaces, presented as a proper type catalogue rather than a download farm.

Unknownfree
Preview of Geist

Geist

Vercel's design system: colour and typography foundations, Geist Sans and Mono typefaces, icon set and React components.

Vercelfree
Preview of Indestructible Type

Indestructible Type

Small open-source foundry producing carefully drawn free typefaces, each with full documentation of its design intent.

Owen Earlopen-source
Preview of Palette

Palette

Artsy's React and React Native design system with an art-world visual language and shared cross-platform primitives.

ArtsyMIT
Preview of Justif

Justif

JavaScript library bringing Knuth-Plass line breaking, hyphenation, optical margin protrusion and microtypography to web text.

Lyall Cooper (@lyallcooper)open-source
Preview of Garden of Flowers

Garden of Flowers

Archive of pictorial typography from the 1600s to 1900s: printers' flowers, ornamental borders, rule pictures and compositional type experiments.

Heikki Lotvonen (@hlotvonen)free
Preview of magick.css

magick.css

Single-file mostly classless CSS framework styled after LaTeX papers, tabletop RPG rulebooks and brutalist layout, with no JavaScript.

Julius Kawatziklis (@winterveil)open-source