Behind the design: Aptos deep dive

"Reading is a magical technology; the closest humans have come so far to inventing telepathy,” wrote the late great Bill Hill. He was one of the inventors of Microsoft’s ClearType font display technology, and the former Director of Microsoft Advanced Reading Technologies. Hill said that by scratching marks on a shredded tree and using symbols to represent sounds, meanings, and ideas, we communicate across time and space. It’s how we share our thoughts with others who may never meet us.  

Today on the blog, we dive deep into the designing of #Aptos and how it became the go-to font for western-language speakers.   

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🎨: Daniel Victor