At TypeThursday, a monthly meet-up in cities including Los Angeles; London; and Bucharest, Romania, font designers critique each other’s letterforms over wine. “Are those C’s exactly the same?” asked Evan Sult, an art director in Brooklyn, during a TypeThursday event in December in New York. “They don’t look exactly the same.”“And why should they be?” said Paul Shaw, a type historian who lives in Manhattan. “Hey, hey, hey! Many large tech companies have designed or commissioned their own house styles, including Netflix Sans, Airbnb Cereal, PayPal Sans, Uber Move and Google’s Product Sans.

Source: New York Times January 24, 2020 16:18 UTC