HEX Projects

https://typo.social/@HEX

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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relay.momostr.pink

relay.damus.io

relay.primal.net

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Last Notes

2026-02-04 11:22:43 CET

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

2025-08-16 02:25:31 CEST

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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