Typography Weekly #87

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92 IN ONE, Exclusive Fonts Bundle

“92 fonts for $15. You'll get a wide range of styles from script to sans to display, as well as OpenType Features and a slew of bonuses such as vector illustrations and texture images.”

www.mightydeals.com

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New book lettering Skillshare class with Jessica Hische

“Love lettering, illustration, and the wide world of books? Join lettering and illustration icon Jessica Hische for a stunning, in-depth class all about creating lettered book covers in Procreate!”

www.skillshare.com

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RoboFont 3.2 was released

Support for Mac OS 10.14, work on the Extensions infrastructure, the Glyph Editor is faster and includes many small improvements, …

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DSType releases Jornada with 9 subfamilies

“A super type family that is also a journey through the world of type classifications.”

www.dstype.com

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Designing the new Doctor Who brand

João Miranda shares details about the current Doctor Who design that was created with the agency LittleHaw for BBC.

walkingfearless.com

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Microsoft’s fonts catch out another fraudster

“You'd think that people forging documents would have learned by now.”

arstechnica.com

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Type design science: Horizontal Is Perceived as Thicker than Vertical

“We report two psychophysical experiments that investigate a visual illusion that is considered common knowledge among type designers, but has never been studied scientifically. Specifically, the thickness of a horizontal line is overestimated in relation to that of a vertical line.”

www.mdpi.com

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Support Letterink on Kickstarter

Drawing strokes with outlines might be tedious. Draw strokes with brush and Letterink will translate it to clear well-plotted outlines.
In addition, it comes with extra features like various brush shapes, smart skeleton components and stroke styles that makes complex font making much faster.

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