Have you seen Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus' Space Type Generator? This thing is absolute monster of amazing text-on<canvas> effects. Bought a coffee for this beautiful bit of work for sure. The effect you see when landing on that homepage is extremely cool. Playing around with the sliders and presets make for almost entirely different demos, each…

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Space Type Generator showcases impressive text-on-canvas effects with customizable sliders and over 20 different presets. The post also highlights several interesting typefaces including Swiss Cheese Mono (created with AI-assisted imagery), Fran Sans (with its creation story), Shop Sans (designed specifically for curved text paths), Miles To Go, and Clauthbound. It concludes with Tobias Frere-Jones' account of designing Gotham, discussing the typeface's history and its transition through different foundries.

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