Decatur

Decatur is a bimap slab serif face designed specifically for on–screen viewing. The optimal usage is 9px aliased. The face is inspired by Decatur, Georgia a neighborhood east of Atlanta Georgia, which in the 80s left an impression on me as a odd mix of rural and urban although not at all suburban. Download font.

mesa.beta.font

Mesa is/was a half attempt at providing web designers with an alternative to system fonts and graphical text. Mesa had the advantage of the editablity of raw text and the graphic touch of inline gifs, although ultimately it was bulky and ugly, both in code and look.

The page included both the postscript font for mocking up photoshop docs and a widget to serve code. The font was “filled” with a 5×5 pixel giving the designer an option to add textures as well as solid colors.