Typography Weekly #57

Khoi Vinh interviews the senior manager for Adobe Type and veteran of the industry.

“Typography is undergoing a public renaissance. Typography usually strives to be invisible, but recently it’s become a mark of sophistication for readers to notice it and have an opinion.”

Bibliophile comes in 2 weights, each of them with over 900 glyphs covering all the latin languages.

“Get the complete Between font family with all 48 styles in OpenType Pro format for only EUR/$ 49 by June 15. You save $150 (75%) off the normal price.”

P22 Type Foundry and The Hamilton Wood Type Museum have announced the newest addition to the Hamilton Wood Type Legacy Project: Brylski by Nick Sherman, named for retired wood type cutter Norb Brylski and designed to be cut as wood type at the museum in Two Rivers, WI.

This year International Letterheads Meet will happen in Oslo, Norway. A weekend for sign painters, designers, typography lovers, artists and craftsmen, loaded with workshops, demos, talks and lots of fun. Letterheads are all about "keeping the craft alive", in a light and cool atmosphere with over a hundred people from all over the world sharing their knowledge and experience.

Florian Hardwig and Thomas Maier highlight some major steps in the historical development of lettering tools for drafting.

David Březina is conducting a study that looks at shape resemblance between letters of the Latin alphabet.