New Web classes plannedScarlet ScuttlebuttThe fall courses are Graphics for Web Design and Typography for Web Design. The courses scheduled for the spring are Web Animation and Interactive Media, and more »
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Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography - CNET News
2 Jul 2009 | 9:01 pmFirefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typographyCNET NewsAs Craig Mod writes: "Fine typography has always been one of the stumbling points of Web design. Limited at most to a handful of cross-platform specific and more » -
Young Mind, Old Soul - SFStation.com
2 Jul 2009 | 6:53 pmSFStation.comYoung Mind, Old SoulSFStation.comBy consistently filling his sketchbook with social observations, he uniquely articulates his style with the use of texture, typography, signature characters and more » -
Rising typography star Seb Lester to hold first show - Digital Arts Online
2 Jul 2009 | 3:08 amDigital Arts OnlineRising typography star Seb Lester to hold first showDigital Arts OnlineTypographer Seb Lester -- who has created faces including Neo Sans and Soho -- shows type-based artworks next month in his first solo exhibition, and more » -
3 success tips by Steve Jobs: follow your gut instinct, never ... - Examiner.com
29 Jun 2009 | 4:16 pm3 success tips by Steve Jobs: follow your gut instinct, never Examiner.comI learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography and more »
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MSN: Typography
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Firefox 3.5 and the potential of web typography - CNET News
2 Jul 2009 | 8:54 pmIn addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes web typography much more attractive. @font-face is a CSS rule that allows web designers to reference ... -
iPhone OS 3.0 still the most enjoyable phone operating system - ITBusiness.ca
2 Jul 2009 | 5:02 amTwo and a half years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone and said that its software was five years ahead of the competition; since then, the rest of the industry has been busy playing catch-up. The past few weeks have seen the release of Palm's ... -
Greteman Group Work Featured in National Publications - Newswiretoday.com
30 Jun 2009 | 1:26 pmNewswireToday - /newswire/ - Wichita, KS, United States, 06/30/2009 - Greteman Group work was recently selected for inclusion in two creative publications, Growing Graphics - Design for kids and LogoLounge’s Initials & Crests . The Growing Graphics ... -
Rob Thomas - Starpulse.com
29 Jun 2009 | 12:08 pmListening to cradlesong, the second album from Matchbox Twenty singer/songwriter Rob Thomas, it's hard not to think of him as a man out of time, making big music for a world of miniature niches. Thomas makes music as if it was the turn of the ... -
Business Journal places in two categories in excellence in journalism ... - Charleston Regional Business Journal
29 Jun 2009 | 9:09 amThe staff of the Charleston Regional Business Journal was honored in two categories in an industry awards ceremony held in Minneapolis, Minn., over the weekend. The Alliance of Area Business Publications , which has more than 70 members in North ...
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Yahoo! News: Typography
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Top 5 tips for creating an amazing photo book (Carteret County News-Times)
4 Jul 2009 | 5:06 am(ARA) - In today's digital era, it's easy to design and publish your own photography book at an affordable price. In fact, Americans will produce 17 million photo books in 2009, according to a Futuresource Consulting estimate. -
New Web classes planned (MyCentralJersey.com)
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Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography (CNET)
3 Jul 2009 | 10:17 amFirefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along. -
Campaign launched for Siskiyou Crest National Monument (Ashland Daily Tidings)
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Objectified (Hour.ca)
2 Jul 2009 | 7:16 amSome people are just born at the right time, in the right place - how else to explain the success of American documentary director Gary Hustwit's 2007 Helvetica , a film about, of all things, typography. It used to be that only a handful of detail-oriented designers and typesetters even cared.
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I Love Typography
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KLIM Type
22 Jun 2009 | 11:12 amThe Week in Type Welcome to another roundup of what’s new in type. If you missed the interview with French type designer Alice Savoie, then be sure to take a look. Alice’s next typeface, Capucine will be released through the Process Type foundry. Follow them on Twitter, and you’ll be informed the moment it’s released. Not quite sure how I failed to mention this before. Chester Jenkins & Kris Sowersby bring us Galaxie Copernicus: the seriffed sister of Galaxie Polaris. And speaking of Kris Sowersby, I received this stunning KLIM type foundry specimen in the post. KLIM is Kris’… -
An interview with Alice Savoie
12 Jun 2009 | 9:08 amLe Typographe Alice Savoie started out with a foundation course in Applied Arts and then studied graphic design and typography for four years in Paris. She then set sail for the UK to follow the MA in Typeface Design at Reading University. Upon graduating in 2007 she relocated to London to work as a graphic designer. In March 2008 Alice joined Monotype Imaging as a full-time type designer. I think at every stage of my studies I was taught by people who were very fond of type, so it turned out to be quite an obvious path. During my first years of graphic design studies in Paris I had a teacher… -
Genuine imitations
3 Jun 2009 | 2:03 amby Aegir Hallmundur Every year The St Bride Foundation holds a lecture in memory of Justin Howes, a great typographer and historian who was instrumental in supporting the St Bride Printing Library. He re-established the firm of HW Caslon, published books, organised exhibitions, delivered lectures and worked with the Type Museum in Stockwell, finally moving to the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp before his death in 2005, aged 41. Previous lectures have been popular, but demand was so high for this year’s lecture that all the tickets were booked up in two hours and it had to be moved to… -
A short, intensive course in type design
29 May 2009 | 10:23 amBy Dan Rhatigan This July, the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading is offering a week-long, condensed version of the MA Typeface Design course it has been offering for the last ten years. It may only last 5 days, but it promises to give a small group of participants a chance to spend all of that time getting some insight and feedback from the core staff at Reading — Gerry Leonidas, Fiona Ross, and Gerard Unger — along with some brief sessions with a few more of us who work with the department. According to the course description,… -
In space, no one can hear you kern
24 May 2009 | 8:33 amThe Week in Type I will soon announce ILT’s gargantuan give-away. There are 40 prizes, from vouchers to buy type, and books, to posters and Helvetica Moleskines. As soon as ILT hits 40,000 RSS subscribers, I’ll run the competition. Basically, I’ll do it like this: 20 prizes for the best-submitted type tips; the remaining 20 prizes will be distributed randomly to those who follow me on Twitter. If you haven’t already subscribed, then all it takes is a mere click. Let’s get started with something free — a free font. A product of the inspired FontStruct, Sessions, by John Skelton, is…
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Made With H&FJ
29 Jun 2009 | 6:30 amAn optometrist's business card, the packaging for a rubber band gun, a basketball court, a scented candle, the concrete signage markers for subtropical hiking trails: these are just a few of the marvelous projects for which designers have chosen fonts from H&FJ. They’re sharing their work over on our Facebook photo page, where more than 3,800 fans are currently perusing the collection. If you’re a Facebook user and an H&FJ enthusiast, come by and share the typographic masterpieces that you’ve made with our fonts. New on the blog this morning, the tag “Made with H&FJ” marks some of… -
What Was Next
24 Jun 2009 | 12:30 pmMost of the talks that we've given are lost to the sands of time, but this afternoon I was happy to discover that one of our favorite presentations lives on. For the AIGA Design Conference in Denver, we were asked to meditate on the topic of “What’s Next,” for which we presented a study of typographic history — and why the ‘historical revival’ might be a twentieth century idea whose time has passed. The AIGA has posted the audio of our talk, which tracks with the images above; it runs about 45 minutes, including some questions from the audience, in which Tobias reveals some of the… -
Don’t Believe the Type!
6 Jun 2009 | 5:00 pmWe will, we will Rockwell. Rock the Caslon. I Meta Girl. ITC Clearly Now. Tempted by the Frutiger ’nother. Weiss Do Fools Fall in Love? Rockwell Amadeus. Dax The Way (uh huh, uh huh) I Like It. Please Mistral Postman. If I Could Turn Back Times. Gill Sans in a Coma. Get Down Onyx. Myriad a Little Lamb. Clarendon (I Know This World is Killing You.) On the Wingdings of Love. I Wanna Bold Your Sans. Some Like it Haettenschweiler. Janson Queen. I Do Not Want I Avant Garde. Scenes From an Italic Restaurant. Hang On to Your Eagle. Take a Janson Me. My Name is DIN (and I am Fonty.) Font Like an… -
House of Flying Reference Marks, or Quillon & Choil
4 Jun 2009 | 11:03 amLast spring, when answering a reader’s question about our favorite characters to draw, I got to spend some time with some of our beloveds: the ¶ and ß that rarely see the light of day, as well as H&FJ’s middle name, &. It took great self-control not to spill the beans about another pair of favorites, the dagger and double dagger, for already waiting in the wings were my favorite daggers to ever come out of H&FJ. They’re the ones in our just-released Sentinel family, seen here. Daggers come from that archipelago of typographic symbols known as reference marks, which refer readers… -
SENTINEL: A New Font Family from H&FJ.
13 May 2009 | 3:41 amTypeface: Sentinel Is any typeface more in-the-know than a Clarendon? These smart looking slab serifs have the timeless style of a charcoal gray suit, or a well-chosen pair of horn-rimmed glasses: they’re approachable, welcoming, and effortlessly persuasive. Yet they’re tough to use — out of the question for setting text — because they lack italics. Enter Sentinel®, a new slab serif from H&FJ. A new take on this lovely and useful style, Sentinel is a refreshingly complete family in twelve weights (Light through Black, with italics throughout) that’s designed to shine in sizes both…
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BD Mother Font
3 Jul 2009 | 8:30 pmBD Mothers's Font main characteristic is the humorous blend of fat serifs, knobbly curves and the thin square inner shapes, perfect for the use on posters, cd-jackets, titles in the range of cartoon, games and music (mainly jazz and black-music). -
Typography Mix
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Typography That Talks Back
3 Jul 2009 | 4:30 amMerging the concept of typographic narrative with the dimensionality of paper, “Explode” and “Erode” are two contrasting multi-dimensional sculptures described by their definition and action. Created with a typeface crafted by yours truly using only Fabriano Tiziano 40% acid free pastel paper and white map tacks. -
Lékárna (Pharmacy) : Type design
2 Jul 2009 | 8:30 pmCustom type design. Based on neon pharmacy sign.
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Design Observer: Main Posts
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Take Me Out to the Old Yankee Stadium
2 Jul 2009 | 4:32 amThe new Yankee stadium, like most retro stadiums, bears the burden of being faux, a recreation, like a Disney version of reality. It works and it doesn’t. -
Alan Rapp: Personal Space
29 Jun 2009 | 1:41 amRobert Sommer’s Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design was published in forty years ago, and its compact title concept — an invisible but perceptible security zone surrounding an individual — caught on. But where is Sommer now? A recent study in Perception finds that listening to music on headphones alters our sense of sociospatial relations. Until these more contemporary strands of inquiry result in a truly new analysis of how we perceive our interpersonal zones today, Personal Space is now available in a new edition, with some additional commentary by Dr. Sommer, from Bosko… -
Today, 06.27.09
27 Jun 2009 | 4:52 amEach morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today. -
Angela Riechers: Hot Ticket
25 Jun 2009 | 2:34 amTo see a play or movie, or ride the Twentieth Century Limited, you needed a ticket, and the development of ticket-dispensing machines paralleled the growth of popular culture. -
Mad Music
23 Jun 2009 | 3:23 amIn 1962, I spent hours listening to Mad magazine’s first LP (Big Top Records), Mad “Twists” Rock ‘N’ Roll. Owning the record made me feel like I was part of a club, which latter evolved into the sardonic, ironic sixties youth culture. It brings me back to a time before art, design, and humor had to be sophisticated to be good.
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Design is Kinky
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KDU2009
3 Jul 2009 | 11:14 amThe KDU has launched a beautiful new site. Tons of super-inspiring work to be seen. Check it out… -
Edwin Tse
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Rik Lee
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Karan Singh
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Empty Magazine Issue 16
29 Jun 2009 | 6:44 pmWe’ve released the new issue, Issue 16, of Empty magazine. Can be bought here.
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Typographer.org News
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Typekit gets some backing
25 Jun 2009 | 1:33 pmTypekit, hmmm, I was pretty harsh on it on Twitter. But when a venture capital company who have put money into the likes of Meebo and Automattic gets involved and throws some cash about, you have to wonder if they know something about how the foundries are reacting behind the scenes. The press release is a little bit weasly-worded (in fairness, it’s a press release), and I can’t quite work out if it’s just True Ventures that is the investor, or a set of investors of which True Ventures happens to be the largest, but it’s namedropping like crazy.Will the foundries support it? Will… -
Carter on revivals tonight
28 May 2009 | 4:56 amQuick little reminder to anyone attending the Justin Howes Memorial Lecture (to given by Matthew Carter) tonight in London, that the location has been changed to Conway Hall. The event may be free, but bring some cash anyhow, as hosts St Bridge Library will benefit from book sales during the evening. -
Neutraface Slab released
12 May 2009 | 1:25 pmI’m not sure I am quite ready to be bored of the slab serif craze, especially when the better foundries are doing such wonderfully creative and diverse things with what one might initially think is a limited palette. The latest? From House Industries, welcome to Neutraface Slab. Five display weights, four text weights, and, of all things, a stencil. The latter is disappointing, the rest you should go explore. -
Home and dry
25 Apr 2009 | 4:24 amUKTV, a series of channels broadcast on digital terrestrial and cable television here in Britain, is going through a full set of rebrands. Before, a selection of channels bearing self-explanatory names such as UKTV Gardens, UKTV Home, UKTV Living, UKTV Drama etc, all lived under the unifying UKTV brand. However, the last couple of years has seen a steady series of relaunches, which still continues, with the channels slowly losing their UKTV brand and taking on new names. First was UKTV G2, which became Dave, followed by other examples such as UKTV History becoming Yesterday, UKTV Gold… -
Typographica relaunches
22 Apr 2009 | 10:56 amOne of the longest running typography blogs out there, with a posting history nearly as checkered as the one you are reading now, has relaunched today. But no longer as a blog, oh no. A fresh new look and a renewed focus, on type reviews, and kicking off as it means to continue with a bumper review of notable typeface releases from 2008 (including reviews from Yves and myself) – you should go visit now before the IP queues form. Congratulations to Stephen and everyone else involved!
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Betatype
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Wedding script caps, OpenType goodness
3 Jul 2009 | 5:18 pmI've added some script caps, along with some swashiness to the wedding types. We're still ironing out some lumps in the caps. -
Betatype on MyFonts
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Display type inspired by Main Street
11 Mar 2009 | 5:07 pmAfter putting the kids to bed at a well known southern California tourist destination, I drew up an alphabet inspired by a storefront in the park.
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Chez Porchez
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Fac-similé des Monotype Ornaments
29 Jun 2009 | 6:03 amJacques André vient de mettre en ligne un fac-similé de l’ouvrage de Frederic Warde à propos des vignettes de la Monotype et leur usage. -
Une fonte custom pour économiser
22 Jun 2009 | 2:44 pmFast Company note que l’introduction d’une fonte custom permet de faire des économies: Lyon. -
Numéros utiles 2009 [3]
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Find the right typeface? [1]
2 Jun 2009 | 11:51 pm1. A british pound designed in 1993. 2. A british pound designed in 2009. The new game is to find it out what are theses two typefaces. -
Font Discoveries program: in use samples
19 May 2009 | 9:02 amLogotype: Parisine Plus PTF Sombre. Additional texts: Le Monde Livre Classic. External text: Angie Sans. Design Mathieu Réguer. Yesterday, I have launched the Font Discoveries program. There is an extensive pdf available for which Mathieu Réguer and myself having designed several fake uses of the various fonts proposed into this first Font Discoveries May 2009.
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CreativePro: Fonts
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Make an Image Sandwich in InDesign
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TypeTalk: Creative Indents
Some layouts call for traditional ways to separate paragraphs. Other times, you can add a little visual interest with something more unusual. Here's how.read more -
New Script Face Almost As Individual as Hand-Lettering
Underware's Liza Pro includes 4,000 hand-crafted characters. The OpenType type family analyzes the text to find the optimal combination of those characters.read more -
At Last! GridIron Flow Ships
This visual workflow application has been making waves since an alpha version appeared at Macworld Expo in January 2008. After going through a lengthy beta period, it has at last reached version 1.0.read more -
Free iPhone and Desktop Wallpapers for Type Lovers
I Love Typography has spun off a new site, typenuts, that accepts and distributes free type-themed backgrounds for iPhones and computer desktops.read more
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Carefully Descending
16 Jun 2009 | 3:48 pmThis latest work – Carefully Descending – was created in three days for the second Go Font Urself* exhibition. It was inspired by an E.E. Cummings poem titled Somewhere I have never travelled and by textures and detailing of hand-drawn maps I found in some cute little books in Berlin. After mapping out the initial lettering the time spent illustrating the individual characters was made more entertaining by watching around 17 consecutive episodes of Seinfeld! The work has been at Peer Gallery, Sydney this week and will be at Dont Come gallery in Melbourne until June 25th. -
Go Font Urself* 2
16 Jun 2009 | 8:52 amGo Font Urself* 2 is back for its second show after its popular debut earlier this year. The exhibition, curated by Marty Routledge, kicked off at Peer Gallery in Sydney last Wednesday night and will open tomorrow night in Melbourne at Don't ComeThis time round the fish tank was filled with floating letters and the giant foam Gotham characters survived the last show and were back again to be joined by silver helium alphabet balloons. There was definitely a greater focus on type and lettering compared to the last show with a cohesive collection of both digital, video and hand-generated works… -
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TYPO Berlin Body Setting
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House Industries Show and Tell
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Unstealable?
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How Much for a Rib?
26 Jun 2009 | 8:46 amI had a little mishap last Friday while pushing my sweathog scooter a little too hard through a gravely right-hander in western North Carolina. A separated AC joint as well as a bruised rib or two was the result. Things moved a little slow for me this week, but I was cheered today by our concerned colleagues to the north. Dinner is served. Thanks guys! -
No Reserve!
23 Jun 2009 | 7:45 pmI remember driving Ed Roth back to his hotel room one night and asking him if he had regret getting rid of any of his cars. “Andy, you never really own anything until you give it away” was all he said. I doubt they’re giving this one away… -
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More options
12 Jun 2009 | 1:13 pmNow that the upcoming PLINC site is getting some press, I realized that we didn’t highlight an important part of the House Industries site redesign. If you’ve ever wondered which OpenType features a font has or what those features do, click on the “More Options” part of the type tester for each font. You’ll get to play will all those cultural sets in Studio Lettering or see Ed Interlock in action. See something you like? You can email it to that client holding your project’s purse strings to persuade them to open said strings. Liked what you set before? Just click on…
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LetterCult
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CUSTOM LETTERS - FIRST HALF 2009
14 Jun 2009 | 11:21 pmSO MUCH GOOD STUFF SO FAR. As we approach the halfway point of 2009, we’ve begun seeking out the best and brightest in the ol’ Custom Letters Dept. And we are asking for submissions—if you see something we’ve missed, please send us a link. Custom Letters is an evolving category that includes calligraphy, sign painting, graffiti, stone carving, digital lettering, hand lettering, paper sculpture, and type design (we’d prefer to feature new/original type over, say, revivals). Custom, in this instance, means built from scratch; we aren’t looking for… -
THE MAKING OF KANDAL
7 Jun 2009 | 11:13 amPENCIL. RULER. FRENCH CURVE. RAPIDOGRAPH. VELLUM. X-ACTO KNIFE. If you were an independent type designer, circa 1977, these are the tools you might use to create a typeface. These were the tools that Mark Simonson used to create Kandal, a wedge serif typeface with an intriguing backstory. The Making of Kandal spanned three decades, four Presidents, and a move from ink to digital. Simonson began the typeface in the 70s, and called it Excalibur; it was tweaked in the 80s; and it was finally released in the 90s as Kandal. Simonson, whom we interviewed last fall, agreed to an in-depth discussion… -
MICHAEL DORET
31 May 2009 | 8:14 pmMICHAEL DORET’S WORK SEEMS familiar. Bold and colorful lettering with complementary graphics evoke memories of roadhouse signs on Route 66 or the bright marquees of the Great White Way. Growing up in New York City, Doret was surrounded by classic mid-century American icons. He lived in Brooklyn, near Coney Island, where he came face-to-face with bold and freaky graphics and signs. Those influences shaped him and his work, as Doret reveals in this interview, conducted at his Los Angeles studio. You grew up near Coney Island. When did Coney Island transform from an amusement park to a… -
COREY HOLMS
4 Mar 2009 | 1:04 amCOREY HOLMS IS THAT GUY WHOSE work you might have seen, but maybe you never put a name to the work, or a face to the name. We correct that today. If you follow pop culture, you’ve probably seen his Sopranos logo, some of his fonts, or his movie posters, most recently, his work on Watchmen, which opens everywhere at midnight on Thursday. Indeed, Watchmen, based on the celebrated graphic novel, gave Holms an opportunity to do a lot of highly visible poster work. But it’s the relatively invisible details that we’ll talk about here. Like many typophiles, Holms noticed that… -
JOHN SOLIMINE
22 Feb 2009 | 1:01 pmMISS GARVEY, THIRD GRADE TEACHER, was the first to notice his gifts. John Solimine would shift uncomfortably in math or science, but when it came to art or penmanship, he was Miss Garvey’s prize pupil. He could draw better than most kids, but he also really cared about his penmanship. He was a cursive freak. Every curve had to be perfect. “I wanted my handwriting to look exactly like the letters in the book,” Solimine says. Fast forward 20 years. Solimine now sits uncomfortably in his cubicle at a large Chicago agency. He’s doing mostly web work. Long hours in a…
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Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook
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Anonymous Pro Now Available
11 Jun 2009 | 6:51 amI announced back in April that a new version of my popular free font Anonymous™ would be available soon. That would be today. Anonymous Pro is now available. -
The Making of Kandal on LetterCult
8 Jun 2009 | 7:18 pmProbably more than you ever wanted to know, but it was fun rummaging through my old stuff to piece the story together. The Making of Kandal (Thanks, Brian!) -
Changeling Cast in Star Trek
11 May 2009 | 10:29 amI saw the new Star Trek movie this last night and was thrilled to spot one of my fonts, Changeling, in a supporting role…. -
Veer Premieres "F is for Fail"
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Lakeside and Filmotype Zanzibar Favorited
23 Apr 2009 | 3:31 pmI’m really honored to have my Lakeside and Filmotype Zanzibar among the 40 typefaces chosen in Typographica’s “Our Favorite Typefaces of 2008”. Thanks so much, Dyana and J.F. I participate in this annual tradition from the other side of the fence as well. I chose Nick Shinn’s Modern Suite, which blew me away when I saw the specimen book for it at last year’s TypeCon in Buffalo.
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MyFonts Special Offers
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News from Fontlab Ltd.
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TypeTool 3 ahora en español
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P22 Blog
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Gerald Giampa R.I.P.
22 Jun 2009 | 2:18 pmMaster printer Gerald Giampa (b.1950) died of a stroke on Saturday June 20, 2009. Gerald was the owner of Lanston Type Co. from 1988 to 2004. We offer our deepest sympathies to his family and friends. His personal website has been kept intact since the acquisition of Lanston by P22 and will be kept as a memorial to one of the more colorful characters in the world of typography. -
Caffe
2 Jun 2009 | 11:26 amCaffe by Gabor Kothay was originally designed for the Artz Gallery Cafe in Budapest Hungary. The design is a contemporary handwriting style adapted from examples in lettering exercise books. It has been redrawn and expanded into six styles. The four weights were created by drawing the style using different mediums: Cappuccino in pen, Pastry in felt-tip, Lemonade in brush and Tobacco, the original, in pencil. Poster and Poster Inline are well suited for display purposes and round out the family. This font family is perfect for bistro menus or other European-flavored poster & print design. -
Festiva and Fleurons!
5 May 2009 | 6:19 amIHOF Festiva by Terry Wudenbachs Festiva is a new font by Terry Wudenbachs. It is based on lettering found on a 1960s kitchen appliance catalog. It evokes 1960s TV and pop culture while still having a contemporary feel. The fun exuberant flavor of this face is perfect for parties and celebrations. The letters dance across the baseline and the lower case wants to be an upper case but just can't quite make it. P22 Festiva Regular includes a full unicode European Character set (Western, CE, Turkish, Romanian etc). It is specially priced at only $19.95. Extra special introductory price: 50% off -… -
London for Tea?
7 Apr 2009 | 5:05 amTt Tea MugMind The Gap! We have just received shipment of the longtime out of stockand very popular London Tea mugs. The mug is officially licensed through the London Transport Museum and features the P22 London Underground font, also licensed through the museum. The mug contains a sample of the famous Johnston Underground type design, an alphanumeric showing and a quote by the original designer, Edward Johnston: "... The essential virtues of good lettering are readableness, beauty, and character."The retail price for the mug is $6.95 plus shipping. Or, you can order a set of 4 mugs for… -
Kelly Pro
6 Apr 2009 | 12:12 pmOur Blogging duties have been somehow neglected. P22 Kelly Pro was introduced for St Patrick's day as you might have guessed. Another fine font from Ted Staunton.
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Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog
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The Potential of Web Typography
Firefox 3.5 with support for webfonts is out. This demo page by Ian Lynam & Craig Mod shows how commercial webfonts can enrich a website. The demo page uses subsetted versions of fonts from the Dutch foundry Underware and “is intended to show what will be possible once foundries revise their EULAs allowing for high-quality professional level fonts to be referenced in CSS“. -
Folder Type
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Sneak Peek: @font-face in Opera 10
The team of Opera was actually one of the first ones which worked on an @font-face implementation for linked TrueType/OpenType fonts. But this feature never made it in any of the final released. In Opera 10 it should finally happen and you can try it yourself with the public beta. Here is a short test of the webfont features. Rendering The rendering quality of the webfonts is sometimes quite good … … but most of the fonts I tested get a very strange type treatment with overlapping glyphs: … which makes the type in smaller sizes almost unreadable: What about kerning and OpenType… -
Webfonts tweets
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Beautiful webfonts demo
Tim Brown from nicewebtype.com designed a beatiful webfonts demo page using Graublau Sans Web. If you use a browser capable of linking TrueType/OpenType fonts try the demo page – otherwise take a look at the screenshot.
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The Fell Types
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“Jules Destrooper” Biscuterie
28 Jun 2009 | 8:57 amI’ve been contacted by Marc Kino, Brandmanager / Graphic designer of Biscuiterie Jules Destrooper Zwaanhofweg 20 - 8900 Ieper Belgium. He let me know he used one of the Fell Flowers for the design for the Year End collection 2009. Since he was grateful for my work he wanted to send me some samples hoping I like their biscuits as well as he likes my work. I do! What can I say? It seems he knows me! Some of the biscuits I received -
Testamentum - De Trasmutationibus Metallorum
28 Jun 2009 | 8:37 am«In the year of grace 1603, the Scottish follower Sethon Alexander, better known under the pseudonym of Cosmopolite, wrote in Latin a third treaty which completed his testamentary work ”Testamentum, De Transmutationibus Metallorum” - Testament or About the Transmutation of metals, which was enriched by his own hand of eleven emblems or “Clavicle.” According to his last wishes the two treaties, through his disciple Sendivogius were actually offered to the public: The philosopher’s stone in twelve treaties in 1604 and Dialogue of Mercury, the alchemist and… -
The Typographer’s Left Shoe
25 Jan 2009 | 3:23 pmThe Typographer’s Left Shoe is a book written by Richard McGowan in 2008 that you can find on Lulu.com. The year is 1932. The typographer Jacob Brown, aged 51, once dreamed of having sons to carry on his trade, but has never married. Emily Weldon, the cobbler’s daughter of eighteen, meets Mr Brown while delivering a new pair of shoes. Before long, Emily is assisting in the shop, and soon falls hopelessly in love. With such a vast difference in age, they are hardly an appropriate match. Perusing an old book of Ancient Remedies to learn of love potions, Emily prays they can be… -
New Tokyo Terror CD Cover
24 Jan 2009 | 10:16 amThe Adult Storybook, released under the epithet New Tokyo Terror, is one part of Joanna Wang’s second album, the whole being titled Joanna & 王若琳, published by Sony Music Taiwan. The album’s name, Joanna & 王若琳, refers to two Joanna Wang’s, hence the two discs. One displays the creative Joanna Wang who writes her own songs. On the other hand there is the performer Joanna Wang who performs or covers works of other artists. Art graphic by Joanna Wang & S.M. Cumberworth. Set in IM Fell English. -
Thomas Moore’s Utopia set in IM Fell English
9 Jan 2009 | 3:19 pmThe project is not complete but you can find this reconstructed facsimile of an edition of More’s Utopia published in 1684. Book design by Walton Mendelson: “A facsimile edition was impossible from the copy because of the amount of work required to clean the pages to make them easily readable, although the book is in good condition. It was decided to retype the pages. They have been set in IM Fell English. Retyping required fitting each line to the full measure, as in the original, and substituting the appropriate glyphs (for: ct, s, ss, st, sh, si, sl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi,…
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Type 101
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stencils…
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Kerning, Flow, and Music
4 Jun 2009 | 11:41 amAh, kerning. The very thought fills my brain with oxytocin. I don’t recall if I’ve met another typeface designer who likes it—at all. Some seem to tolerate it at the beginning, but they eventually grow to hate it. And yes, there are times I’ve gotten frustrated with it, but overall, kerning brings me a joy like no other. The average designer may not realize that a knowledgeable typeface designer will look at every possible character combination to determine which kerning pairs must be added. Uppercase to uppercase, uppercase to lowercase, lowercase to punctuation, figures to… -
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Oh No! Not More Web Fonts!
18 May 2009 | 8:09 amAbout a month ago I was interviewed by Jeffery Zeldman, from A List Apart, on my early experiences in the type industry. When the interview veered to the topic of web fonts, much to my excitement, I spilled too big an idea. Excitement because we at Font Bureau were beginning to formulate an early proposal for an additional table in our fonts. We’ve now sharpened that to a simpler proposal than what I was discussing with Mr. Zeldman. And of course we are excited because this table, in concert with CSS’s long neglected @fontface recommendation, will bring all kinds of possibilities… -
If It’s May, It Must Be Offsite . . .
6 May 2009 | 8:32 amThis past weekend, May 1st through the 3rd, we gathered for our annual offsite meeting — a chance for the whole FB team to get together in one location. Once again this year, the tribe descended on Martha’s Vineyard, home to our peerless leaders, both David and Sam (for a little while longer, anyway). The gathering consists of FB staff, consultants & “extended family,” and wise counsel (i.e., Matthew Carter ;-). It’s a once-a-year opportunity to get everyone together in the same place at the same time — a time for a little reflection and a little…
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TypeOff.
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The Type Meet-Up Calendar
27 Jun 2009 | 9:15 amDo you like type? Are you German? Perhaps you thinking about visiting Germany soon? Or maybe you are somewhere else, but still want to be informed about all the typographic events that Indra Kupferschmid and Dan Reynolds know about? Large or small, absolutely everything that comes to our ears—or inboxes—needs to make its way along to you. And it will, if you follow Indra’s new type meet-up calendar on Google! This organizational effort is new, but it will surely grow. The biggest benefit to the Type meet-up calendar is that we hope to really catalog all of the upcoming grass-roots… -
First Saarbrücken Typostammtisch
17 Jun 2009 | 1:40 amThe word Typostammtisch is difficult to translate into English, much less settle on a proper plural (Typostammtische?). So I will continue to refer to this concept with its natural moniker. A Stammtisch is a regular meeting at a bar. At a Typostammtisch, one eschews talk of politics or of one’s favorite football club in favor of Typo—not a spelling error, but a short German word that may encompass just about everything relating to typography, type design, and lettering. Last night, a number of students and designers in Saarbrücken inaugurated their own Typostammtisch. By the official… -
Malabar nominated for German Design Prize
3 Jun 2009 | 2:55 amThe German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has nominated my Malabar typeface for the 2010 German Design Prize. The design prize of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country‘s highest distinction in the field of design. No other design award sets such strict criteria on entries. A company can only enter the competition if its product has already been recognized in another national or international competition. The award ceremony takes place in February, 2010. While I doubt that my typeface will take home one of the 25 visual communication prizes, it is an honor just to be… -
Five years of the Typostammtisch
3 Jun 2009 | 12:04 amOne month after TYPO-Berlin 2004, several HfG Offenbach students and alumni met for a Typostammtisch, to keep the momentum going. This peculiar institution has continued to meet more or less every months since; we celebrated a fifth-year anniversary last night. Although most of the designers from the founding instance have moved on to other things, the event has maintained the same feeling. The Offenbach Typostammtisch’s location has moved around quite a bit, too. In fact, most meetings during the first few years were in Frankfurt, not in Offenbach—although the true hub of typographic… -
Typotheque releases Nara
1 Jun 2009 | 12:06 pmBack in 2004, the annual ATypI conference was hosted in Prague. The local Museum of Decorative Arts was hosting a show at the same time: E-A-T, a selection of contemporary Czech and Slovak type design. Several tremendous designs caught my eye, and I wrote up a review of the exhibition for Typotheque. I always remembered one specific design in the back of my mind, too… Adriq, the first PostScript typeface produced in Czechoslovakia, was designed at the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design by Andrej Krátky in 1988. Drawing severe, narrow calligraphic letterforms that all sport an…
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The FontFeed
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FF Seria Arabic, The First Arabic FontFont
3 Jul 2009 | 5:01 pmThe first Arabic type family to be released by FontFont is FF Seria Arabic by Pascal Zoghbi, a companion to Martin Majoor's FF Seria. -
Focus On FontStructors – Paul D. Hunt
2 Jul 2009 | 12:52 pmIn the second of our series of mini-interviews with FontStructors The FontFeed talks to Paul D. Hunt. -
Last hours for the Axel promotion
30 Jun 2009 | 3:56 amThe new Erik Spiekermann font family Axel is an economical, highly legible font family optimized for on-screen use in office apps such as Microsoft Excel. -
Mark Simonson’s Changeling Stars In Star Trek
26 Jun 2009 | 3:59 pmChangeling is the screen font on the monitor displays of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the new Star Trek movie. -
2009 Penguin Design Award Winners
25 Jun 2009 | 1:10 pmThe winning book covers designs for the Penguin Design Awards 2009 are showcased on the Penguin Books website.
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upscale typography
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The Tart Card Project
25 Jun 2009 | 12:57 amUkType and Wallpaper magazine joined forces for some graphic fun but most of all to support the St Bride Library, the world’s foremost printing and graphic arts library. They invited designers –anything from students to superstars– to participate in a design project. The brief was to use a familiar typeface in order to design a typographic [...] -
Drawing with Type
19 Jun 2009 | 3:52 amThis is one of the newest apps for the Apple iphone. The concept is very simple. Drawing with letters. The first release came out late May, but the project started back in 2005 as an online project for the web. You simply type a sentence or word and then you start drawing. You may save it, [...] -
Hype For Type Project
17 Jun 2009 | 11:51 pmAlex Haigh is a 25 year old freelance designer from Nottingham who runs a small design studio under the name ThinkDust. A year ago he started a project with the name HypeForType. The original idea was to bring together the most talented designers from any part of the world. After one year designers like Si [...] -
Video Ads made with Type
11 Jun 2009 | 12:36 amWords are powerful and so is a picture. In advertising, words are mostly used to supplement the picture. Sometimes words become part of the main act, as is the case with the Inligua ad. In this typographic video, you not only see but also hear and read the ad in the most creative way. A [...] -
Live at the Graphica Expo 2009
5 Jun 2009 | 3:32 amGraphica is the leading Graphic Arts Trade Fair event that takes place every 2 years in Athens. Anything from multimedia, creative workshops, publications, visual communication, printing materials, software, paper manufacturers. Companies like Agfa, Canon, Epson, Heidelberg, HP, Kodak, Roland, Xeikon, Xerox and many others, exhibited their products for 4 days at the end of May. This year, the trade fair [...]
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Typophile - News
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Theorem release
1 Jul 2009 | 8:33 amSUDTIPOS. JULY 09. NEW RELEASE. Hello everybody from a really cold Argentina. We are happy to announce the release of Theorem. Its a small breath from the scripts! Theorem is an interesting change from the usual calligraphic work of Koziupa and Paul. An art deco font with a twist in its capitals, Theorem’s lowercase characters were designed to automatically achieve the best optical spacing in typesetting. To accomplish that goal, a variety of alternates were drawn for most letters, and plenty of vowel-focused ligatures were designed. The auto-magic of OpenType ties it all together to a… -
Analog Source: Letterpress in an American Design Education (St Bride Library)
25 Jun 2009 | 12:07 pm* An illustrated talk at St Bride Library * Tuesday 30 June 2009 at 7pm * In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation * Admission £7; concessions £5; Friends of St Bride £3 * Pay on the door Many examples of student work from the Visual Communications Program at the University of Delaware are intended to insight a lively conversation about the value of letterpress in contemporary design education. Ashley John Pigford and William Deering will speak about the Raven Press at the University of Delaware as a place of unbridled experimentation and phenomenological education. Professor Ashley John… -
Rebus Script - a seriously fun OpenType font introduced by Ascender Corp
23 Jun 2009 | 3:54 pmElk Grove Village, IL — June 24, 2009 — Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced their newest OpenType font called Rebus Script to showcase the advanced features available in OpenType fonts for creative applications. Rebus Script is a handwriting style script font that includes a set of pictorial symbols that can automatically replace certain words and syllables. Rebus Script uses the Contextual Alternate feature that is available in many OpenType-savvy applications including Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and Mellel. Rebus Script retails… -
Gerald Giampa R.I.P.
22 Jun 2009 | 2:58 pmI never had the opportunity to meet him in person but we did exchange email from time to time. The person I got to know was both a gentleman and a character. More information about his passing on P22’s blog. -
TypeTogether releases additional weights for Skolar
22 Jun 2009 | 10:10 amThe successful typeface Skolar, by David Březina, has been expanded by 2 more essential weights, Bold Italic and Semibold Italic. We offer an upgrade from the previous bundle for only €30. Please contact TypeTogether for details.
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News from Fontlab Ltd.
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Preview your VFB files in Finder
11 Jun 2009 | 11:56 pmVFB and UFO QuickLook plugins for Mac OS X 10.5 by Georg Seifert -
TypeTool 3 ahora en español
27 Apr 2009 | 5:29 pmUna nueva versión en idioma español de TypeTool 3, el editor de fuentes básico de Fontlab, se encuentra ya disponible en... -
Fontlab Acquires Live Pen
18 Mar 2009 | 7:18 amFontlab is pleased to announce our acquisition of the tools, technology and brand of Live Pen from Zero-One Inc. -
Robothon - a FABulous event!
18 Mar 2009 | 7:01 amYuri Yarmola and Adam Twardoch of Fontlab presented at Robothon 2009 at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague... -
New FontLab forum
27 Jan 2009 | 7:08 pmJan 2009: Register now!
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TypeNEU
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Twstedlogic
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Folch Studio
1 Jul 2009 | 12:56 amFolch Studio updates. -
A+B Studio
30 Jun 2009 | 12:25 amTasty work over at A+B Studio. -
Un.titled
30 Jun 2009 | 12:22 amUn.titled updates with new work. On display their work for Keenpac. -
Font Soup
29 Jun 2009 | 5:03 amFont Soup, a new foundry is looking for submissions.
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Type Specimen Pool
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sneaker720-9
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GramLee wood type poster
3 Jul 2009 | 1:26 pmNick Sherman has added a photo to the pool: 26″ × 40″ poster printed by Nick Sherman in June, 2009, using type from the GramLee collection of wood type at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. -
ugrozabusam
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Theorem
1 Jul 2009 | 6:32 amAle Paul has added a photo to the pool: We are proud to announce the release of Theorem, and yes, is not a script! www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000439#sp... Theorem is an interesting change from the usual calligraphic work of Koziupa and Paul. An art deco font with a twist in its capitals, Theorem's lowercase characters were designed to automatically achieve the best optical spacing in typesetting. To accomplish that goal, a variety of alternates were drawn for most letters, and plenty of vowel-focused ligatures were designed. The auto-magic of OpenType ties it all together… -
FF Dingbats 2.0 – Booklet [Free Download]
1 Jul 2009 | 6:30 amFontFont has added a photo to the pool: The world has changed since 1993. Factor Design tells the story of how FF Dingbats 2.0 evolved from the original release to account for modern styles and technology in a booklet that is now downloadable for free on ffdingbatsfont.com/downloads/index.html.
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Fonts.com
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ITC Legacy™ Complete Family Pack
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ITC Legacy™ Pro Complete Family Pack
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ITC Legacy™ Sans Complete Family Pack
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ITC Legacy™ Sans Pro Complete Family Pack
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Courier PS Pro Italic
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Fonts.com: About Fonts
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Scholtz Fonts
30 Jun 2009 | 2:21 pmThe foundry is based in Durban, -
Discourse Type
30 Jun 2009 | 2:21 pmDiscourse Type is a new foundry setup in 2007 by Jonathan Bennett. The foundries aim is to create modern typefaces that take advantage of advanced OpenType features allowing designers to have more choice and control of their typefaces. Discourse Type hopes to create a library of fonts that advance typeface design. Discourse Type is based in South Wales and all their fonts are designed to meet the bi-lingual needs of Welsh designers. -
Volcano Type
30 Jun 2009 | 2:21 pmVolcano Type is a independent font foundry based in Karlsruhe, Germany. Their font designs are between digital and analogue. -
DynaComware
30 Jun 2009 | 2:21 pmDynaComware has become the leading font developer in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) market, 1987 -
TypeArt
30 Jun 2009 | 2:21 pmThe TypeArt Foundry, Inc. has been creating fonts for over 15 years.
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Ministry of Type
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Alibi
21 Jun 2009 | 6:26 amThe rebranding of UKTV’s channel lineup has been going on for a while now; every couple of months another of their channels gets a new name and identity, and the original, extraordinarily pleasant and consistent network branding (at right) takes another step closer to oblivion. One of the recent rebrands was for UKTV Style, which got a pretty dreadful implementation of a reasonably nice idea - David Earls wrote more about that on Typographer.org. Next to go is UKTV Food, which will get a logo more suited to a free supermarket magazine (it really reminds me of the old Sainsbury’s… -
Textual Textile
21 Jun 2009 | 4:25 amI’ve had this care label sat around on my desk for a couple of weeks, I was going to throw it out but I just like the lettering on it. Care labels are usually just printed bits of scratchy nylon and polyester, so even though this one was just as scratchy, it’s at least embroidered and has nice lettering. I especially love how the reverse looks too, with the lettered parts all tight and neatly stitched and the rest of it all fuzzy and loose. Notice the obvious similarities between this lettering and those tiny pixel fonts you can get. -
Royal Mail’s Royal Insignia
14 Jun 2009 | 3:20 pmI love projects like this, a Flickr group purely for Royal Mail postboxes identified by postcode. There are currently 5679 photos in the group, so is getting to be a pretty good catalogue of the postboxes in the UK - though with 115,000 in total there’s still a way to go. One of the first ones I clicked was pretty close to where I’m from, and lo, a quick search reveals the one very close to where I grew up. Ah, memories. One of the interesting things about all these postboxes is the variety in the emblems of the reigning monarch - from Victoria to Elizabeth, they range from the… -
Austrian Applied Art
7 Jun 2009 | 1:49 pmA while back Jo at Languste Fonts sent me a link to the collection of the Austrian Museum of Applied and Contemporary Arts. Their collections site is pretty huge, with sections for ornamental and woodblock prints, textiles, drawings, and posters. Lots and lots of posters. They’re arranged in categories, but the best thing is just to keep clicking through them and enjoy the variety - there’s some pretty gorgeous lettering, type and illustration in there. I’ve (of course) traced some of it, and I love the blackletter calligraphy below. I’d link to the page, but… -
Genuine Imitations
3 Jun 2009 | 2:28 amThis Thursday just gone, Matthew Carter presented the fourth annual Justin Howes Memorial Lecture for the St Bride Library, Genuine Imitations, a type designer’s view of revivals, and I was lucky enough to get a ticket for it. All the tickets went in two hours, and St Bride moved the event to Conway Hall to allow more people to go, yet even after that there was a waiting list! I’ve written up the talk for I Love Typography, so head on over there to read all about it - it’s quite long, but Carter made some good points that I found rather inspirational, and I hope you will too.
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TypeCulture
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TypeCon2009
19 Jun 2009 | 6:33 amThe TypeCon2009 program, education forum schedule, speakers, workshops, and registration are now online at the TypeCon website. -
Our Newest Article
19 Jun 2009 | 6:32 amEmma Williams’ vast dissertation on the Gurmukhi script represents TypeCulture’s first extensive foray into the wide world of non-latin scripts. -
Are you on Facebook?
19 Jun 2009 | 6:31 amWe are. TypeCulture’s new Facebook page went online recently. It’s a modest beginning, to be sure, but more content and commentary are on the way. -
Font And License Upgrades
6 Jun 2009 | 9:02 amYes, we can . . . upgrade your TypeCulture fonts and licenses. Details are here. -
Jamille Gets An Upgrade
26 May 2009 | 7:51 pmOur classic type family is ready to take on the world. Jamille Pro has been given huge character sets, more OpenType features, ornaments, and lively swash caps all around. There’s a new specimen PDF, too.
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Swiss Legacy
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Why Not Associates – Recent Work
3 Jul 2009 | 11:06 amSome very interesting recent work from Why Not Associates. Image 1: Pigeons & Peacocks 2, second issue of the magazine created for the london college of fashion. Image 2: v&a retail identity, gift packaging and navigation elements. a creative collaboration with aboud creative. -
Counter Print Giveaway Bag
3 Jul 2009 | 8:46 amSpend £40 or more at Counter Print and get this sexy bag for free… -
Typografische Monatsblätter
2 Jul 2009 | 9:45 amTypografische Monatsblätter is a Swiss business magazine, dealing with questions of printing and typography. Its frequency was monthly formerly (hence the name!) and it is still in print up to date – now on a bimonthly basis. “Typografische Monatsblätter” were founded 1933. Since 1952 they are published together with “Schweizer Grafische Mitteilungen” and “Revue Suisse de l’Imprimerie”. TM discusses questions of the developping printing technology, also – and for designers all over the world even more interesting: Swiss designers and especially Swiss type designers were… -
Acne Art Department
30 Jun 2009 | 11:51 amAcne, mostly known for their jeans brand, also have an amazing creative studio: Acne Art Department. -
Type Camp
29 Jun 2009 | 12:41 pmNew openings for Type Camp summer 2009: - Type Camp Galiano Island British Columbia, Canada - Type Camp India Chennai, Tamil Nadu See pictures of the previous workshops here.
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GEOTYPOGRAFIKA
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Adria Chilcote / Don’t Give Up!
2 Jul 2009 | 9:22 amNew profile photo echoes cherished old work. Above: Adria Chilcote’s latest profile photo in support of the Iranian Green movement, adapted from a lovely project she undertook while traveling in Berlin last year. See this link. Now Adria is venturing into the Indian design market, setting up shop in India! Can’t wait to hear more. Bon voyage and bon chance, Adria! Related posts:Adria Chilcote / Hrvatska CroatiaReza Abedini / IranianUPDATED: Iran Facebook Protests -
Greg Chadwick / For Neda.
2 Jul 2009 | 7:29 amA California artist manifests the world’s collective mourning. Above: Greg Chadwick, The Call - ندا - Neda, 2009. See also his blog, Speed of Life. Mamnoon am, for sharing this work here, Greg. Related posts:For Neda.Aktuell / Greg MillsMehdi Davaei / New Posters -
Dr. Massoud Pezeshkian
2 Jul 2009 | 6:46 amA brave man implores the Iranian Parliament to act with fairness. Above: A recent speech to the Iranian parliament by a very brave an impassioned Dr. Massoud Pezeshkian. He warns of dictatorship and reminds the members of the just actions of the Imam Ali and his proscriptions for benevolent government. Quoting the martyr Beheshti, “…I prefer the bitterness of honesty over the sweetness of deceit.” Related posts:MRS / VIVA IranReza Abedini / IranianHow to fight. -
It’s about franken time.
30 Jun 2009 | 8:50 pmMinnesota’s junior senator is finally confirmed. Above: Our man in Washington D.C., Al Franken. ¡Que Viva! St. Louis Park in da house… er, Senate. Related posts:Obama: Feb. 9, 2009 Press ConferenceLiveGeo: Avanti popolo, ‘Khas o Khashaak’!Geotypografika Interview 006: David Berman -
Rietveld for Rietveld
30 Jun 2009 | 5:55 pmProtest in full spectra color! Above: The latest on the Rietveld for Rietveld’s efforts to prevent the closing of their beloved building. A new Flickr set celebrates color and humanity all at once. Check the full R for R set here and consider signing the petition here. By the way, guess who designed this T-Shirt? Related posts:Rietveld / Bas OudtGerrit Rietveld AcademieMehdi Davaei / Tehran: We these days.
