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Typography Weekly #69
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Suggested By frodebo
Put a ring on it, part I – on the origins of the letter Å
The origins of Å can be traced back almost 500 years to a Hanseatic printer caught in the midst of major political, theological, technological, and phonological turmoil.
medium.com
Fontstand: An interview with TypeTogether
TypeTogether might not seem an obvious name for a business partnership founded by two people living nearly 6,000 miles apart. Yet when Veronika Burian and José Scaglione started their type foundry, Veronika (originally from the Czech Republic) was living in the US and José in his native Argentina …
fontstand.com
Trade Gothic gets the color font treatment
“Based on the powerful Trade Gothic Condensed Heavy typeface, Monotype Studio designer Lynne Yun, created the fonts necessary to set both “beveled” and “embossed” characters in any color.”
www.myfonts.com
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Introducing A2-Mazarin
Originally designed as a Garamond-inspired metal typeface by Robert Girard c. 1921–23, and published under the name Astrée by esteemed French foundry Deberny Peignot, the typeface was soon recut and renamed Mazarin by renowned English foundry Stephenson Blake in 1926.
www.a2-type.co.uk
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