Typography Weekly #49

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Mark Simonson released Proxima Soft

A rounded version of Proxima Nova with the same 48 styles and the same language coverage (including Greek and Cyrillic).

www.fontspring.com

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Town – a geometric Sans with 124 styles

“Town is a display collection inspired by art deco and contemporary lettering.” Introductory offer: 85% off.

www.myfonts.com

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Fit by David Jonathan Ross released

FIT is a hyper-stylized series of caps designed with one thing in mind: filling up space with maximum impact.

djr.com

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Beatrice Warde Scholarship 2017

The TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship is sponsored by the Type Directors Club and Monotype in the amount of $5,000. It will be awarded to a female student currently enrolled in her junior undergraduate year and will be applied directly to her senior year tuition, which begins September 2017 and concludes in May 2018.

www.tdc.org

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Luc Devroye’s best commercial typefaces of 2016

A selection of commercial typefaces published in 2016, grouped by category.

luc.devroye.org

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FF Quixo 80% off

A playful, organic-looking typeface, but also designed for precision.

www.fontshop.com

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Introducing Source Serif 2.0

“The work on this release has been a long time coming, and represents a major step forward.”

blog.typekit.com

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New Monotype Office by Ben Adams Architects

“Monotype needed an agile and inspiring workplace for now, and for its future needs,” stated Ben Adams, director of Ben Adams Architects. “Our scheme provides designed-in scope for expansion and picks up inspiring cues from their amazing archive of typefaces.”

www.dexigner.com

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Flawless Typography Checklist

“Invest in your career as a designer—become a true typography expert and get guaranteed flawless typography on every design project.”

www.typewolf.com

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Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?

Glenn Fleishman: “The trouble with being a former typesetter is that every day online is a new adventure in torture. Take the shape of quotation marks. These humble symbols are a dagger in my eye when a straight, or typewriter-style, pair appears in the midst of what is often otherwise typographic beauty.”

www.theatlantic.com