Typography Weekly #19

“The act of writing has always been an art. Now, it can also be an act of music. Each letter you type correspondes to a specific musical note putting a new spin to your composition …”

“It’s safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty price tag, and they are uncommonly vulnerable to unjust adaptation and outright theft.”

“The Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) has accepted 67 characters as candidates for emoji. At the May 2016 UTC meeting, a final determination will be made for ones to be added to Unicode 9.0, for release in June 2016.”

“Project Faces — a whole new way to think about tweaking, adapting, and creating fonts that perfectly reflect your message.”

Coming in with a staggering 90 different weights and styles, the Acumin family is the latest typeface from Robert Slimbach, the principal designer at Adobe Type.

The early pre-​​release builds of FontLab VI are avail­able for free.