Typography Weekly #40

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New at FontShop: Kobenhavn from Fontpartners

“A wide-set, occasionally-seriffed design made to offer a sense of Denmark’s sprawling capital city and visual culture.”

www.fontshop.com

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Nina Stössinger’s Nordvest released at Monokrom

“A versatile type family in four weights and eight styles, it takes on a friendly, approachable appearance in the heavier weights, while the lighter text styles embody all the marks of a workhorse text face.”

monokrom.no

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type.today interview with Christian Schwartz

A conversation with Christian Schwartz, in which he rejects celebrity status, notes several important tendencies in contemporary type design …

type.today

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The Prints and the Pauper

Did Gutenberg really invent moveable type? Keith Houston explains.

ilovetypography.com

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Learn typographic terminology with Type Terms

Type Terms is the perfect tool for designers to learn the basics of typographic terminology. If you are new to typography or here to refresh your memory, then Type Terms is perfect for you.

www.supremo.tv

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Isidora by Latinotype 88% off

“Isidora is a modern geometric font based on the classic typefaces of the early 21st Century yet with a contemporary and functional touch.”

www.myfonts.com

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The mysterious ancient origins of the book

The debate about ebooks v paper books is nothing new. Keith Houston explains how a very similar debate raged as the first books came to be in ancient Rome.

www.bbc.com

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SamsungOne, the New Universal Typeface for Samsung

“It is a family of scripts covering 26 writing systems, more than 400 languages, and over 25,000 glyphs, creating a truly global typeface.”

news.samsung.com

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All Desktop Fonts from Northern Block 70% off

All font families (desktop licenses only) 70% off.

www.fontspring.com