HEX Projects

HEX Projects is a typographic company founded by Nick Sherman (npub1syu…dwzr) that makes fonts and websites.
📍 Brooklyn, NYC

HEX Projects: https://hex.xyz
Newsletter: https://hex.xyz/news/
Future Fonts: https://www.futurefonts.xyz/hex

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2026-02-04 10:22:43 GMT

An interactive web experiment combining a springy-baseline hover effect with a variable font whose glyphs can flex to match the baseline’s curvature:
https://hex.xyz/Shop_Sans/boing/
The CSS code is based on demos from @npub19q8…5kmj with tips from @npub1p63…gl53 yesterday:
https://front-end.social/@css/116006138838064149
The variable font is Shop Sans, which I made for exactly these kinds of curved-baseline situations:
https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans
It’s just CSS with a variable web font (no JavaScript involved) and would have been impossible until fairly recently.
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/011/626/236/207/639/original/0829b40a0017eacb.mp4

2025-11-12 15:28:07 GMT

Issue #2 of HEX News just went out, featuring the new Shop Sans typeface for setting text on curves, previews of other fonts in progress, font uses, miscellaneous personal recommendations, and more.
You can read the web version here:
https://hex.xyz/news/2/
Subscribe to get infrequent new issues in your email inbox or RSS reader:
https://hex.xyz/news/
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2025-11-01 00:35:22 GMT

HEX launched 7 years ago tonight, on Halloween 2018.
To celebrate, I’m releasing a preliminary version of an experimental typeface I started even before that …
Shop Sans is a typeface for setting text on circles and curved baselines. Its ‘Curve’ variable font allows for bending type smoothly along arched paths, with adjustable curvature.
The initial version 0.1 is now available from @npub1t7k…3vwk, with more updates and improvements coming soon:
https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans
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2025-08-16 00:25:31 GMT

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That Dymo script font wheel was what inspired my Plastic Script typeface!
https://hex.xyz/Plastic_Script/
It was a fun challenge to make a connecting script typeface where every glyph occupies the same monospaced width.
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/035/582/692/838/542/original/e8f5d9fe01fd6f14.png

2024-12-06 12:47:41 GMT

For anyone using variable fonts in Affinity design apps:
⚠️ BEWARE ⚠️
Affinity applies kerning values from a variable font’s default instance (usually a moderate “Regular” style) to *all* variants of that font, even if it includes design variants with drastically different kerning.
It’s easy to miss in variable fonts with relatively limited stylistic ranges (where kerning doesn’t change much throughout), but it’s quite problematic for variable fonts that cover more expansive ranges of variation.
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2024-05-21 14:00:08 GMT

I’m considering offering discounts on fonts for websites that are not annoying. 10% off for each of the following:
- No cookie/privacy consent is needed.
- No pop-ups or other dickbars.
- The homepage uses less than 1 megabyte of data to load.
- Basic functionality doesn’t require JavaScript.
- The layout works in a small 320px-wide viewport.