👁 Typeface Designer at Lettermatic.com 👁 Word Panelist at Scripps National Spelling Bee 👁 Ex-Lexicographer 👁 Lapsed Emoji Expert 👁 Author of The Dictionary of Difficult Words 👁https://bsky.app/profile/janesolomon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/janesolomon.bsky.social/post/3mhvfzwkk5s2hSome of you may know I've been working as a typeface designer at Lettermatic for the last 2.5 years. Here's the case study for Monaspace, our collaboration with @github.com @githubnext.com. I wrote the case study and worked on Cyrillic, Greek, and IPA characters for the 4.1 update. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:cydtzwstzvungb7uazolfmor/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvfzwkk5s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/janesolomon.bsky.social/post/3ljpvltgzwk2r👋Hello. I’m a typeface designer now and this was my first project. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Mar 2025 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:cydtzwstzvungb7uazolfmor/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljpvltgzwk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/janesolomon.bsky.social/post/3ljldeob3pc2vGreat article by @jasonli.bsky.social on digital typefaces made in Hong Kong. This includes Prison Gothic, a project based on road signs around the city made by incarcerated people in the 1970s to 1990s. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2025 20:44 +0000at://did:plc:cydtzwstzvungb7uazolfmor/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljldeob3pc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/janesolomon.bsky.social/post/3lhwqkd4bwk2eGeometric sans fonts like Helvetica are popular, but having letter terminations perfectly aligned can make a font more difficult to read. For the last 1.5 years I've been working at @rileycran.bsky.social's typographical foundry Lettermatic. Here's a thread he wrote about legibility in type. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Feb 2025 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:cydtzwstzvungb7uazolfmor/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwqkd4bwk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/janesolomon.bsky.social/post/3lbkve5ba542lCow do you do, fellow kids?22 Nov 2024 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:cydtzwstzvungb7uazolfmor/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkve5ba542l