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Input Sans Compressed Regular, designed by David Jonathan Ross of Font Bureau.

Input is a flexible system of fonts designed specifically for code by David Jonathan Ross. It offers both monospaced and proportional fonts, all with a large range of widths, weights, and styles for richer code formatting.

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Burlingame Condensed Black, designed by Carl Crossgrove, released by Monotype.

Burlingame is a multi-purpose font family that started out as a single typeface with a more specialist purpose. There’s a clue in the name: it was originally intended for a game identity. It has found a wider purpose following pioneering investigations by Monotype into the legibility of vehicle displays. The research revealed a set of optimum criteria for dashboard display fonts: large counters and x-heights, simple shapes and a loose spacing of characters.

A search of Monotype’s own library turned up nothing that fitted the bill exactly, so Carl Crossgrove was asked to develop his game font, Burlingame, with its open, clear shapes, into a family of faces that could meet the high-performance demands. His refinements, increasing the x-height, loosening the spacing and paring down the corners, improved the clarity and led to a design in two widths and nine fine weight grades, suited to a wide range of uses, from packaging and publishing to game and motion graphics.

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CamingoCode Bold, designed by Jan Fromm.

CamingoCode is designed for source-code editors. It is based on CamingoMono, but has several specially drawn glyphs that work well at small sizes, including Q, l, &, *, ~ and #. The stroke weights are relatively light, which makes CamingoCode suitable for both bright and dark visual themes. The family consists of four style-linked fonts (Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) and is manually hinted to give the best possible appearance on screens.

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Amsterdam, designed by Jarrik Muller, released by Citype.

The typeface is inspired by the facades of houses in Amsterdam. The letters remind me of my cycle tours through Amsterdam on a sunny weekend afternoon. I just love the city’s huge architectural diversity.