Typography Weekly #66

“Photoshop and Illustrator announced plenty of new features at Adobe MAX this week, include some exciting typographic features we’ve been anticipating: support for OpenType variable fonts.”

An article by Peter Bil'ak on I Love Typography

“Francesco Simoncini was a type designer and an innovator. An exhibition and a catalogue mark his re-discovery”

“Quinoa is display typeface by Catharsis Fonts that unites the seemingly opposed concepts of clean geometric architecture and organic humanist warmth. Quinoa covers multilingual Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Armenian.”

The TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship is sponsored by the Type Directors Club and Monotype in the amount of $5,000. The scholarship is open to matriculating female (by birth or identified as such) bachelor’s degree students currently enrolled in their junior undergraduate year.

A comprehensive package of typographic history, theory, typeface design, technology, design practice, and commerce. Instructors: Steven Heller, Angela Riechers, Yomar Augusto, Victoria Rushton, Tobias Frere-Jones, Claudia de Almeida, Richard Kegler.

Microsoft has had big impact on type, in the office, on the desktop, online. Here’s how it happened. By John D. Berry.

We are all shocked in Latinotype that Mexico was hit by a massive earthquake and want to help out! That is why we have joined forces with some fellow Latin American foundries to support those affected by the earthquake and we are offering a superb font bundle for just $29 (available for 30 days). 100% of all the money raised from the bundle sales will go to the victims. The bundle includes 29 fonts and 75 styles, by 9 different foundries, that provide you with a wide range of choices to customiz