Typography Weekly #107

The ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, and Chinese, to name just a few, used rebuses thousands of years before emoji appeared on our screens.

“Gift Ideas for Designers & Font People is my annual list of presents you might want to buy in December or any other month, for that matter.”

A new collection of 7 Arabic typefaces from Nadine Chahine’s ArabicType, accompanied by a virtual exhibition.

See the fonts used in popular culture—featuring Bacurau, The Politician, Body at Brighton Rock, Trick Mirror and more.

Refine your craft with Practica, a 14-week online type design program starting in January 2021.

A book about one of the important figures in the history of Czech Republic – English edition 2021.

“There is no definitive form of the alphabet. The alphabet is a concept made concrete through countless written and designed letterforms; the alphabet is not defined by a single typeface but expressed through all of them. There’s sets of rules, largely unwritten rules, of how a typeface is put together, about relationships between letterforms and between styles. It’s a balance between a hard system and flexibility.”

Go beyond and upgrade your Glyphs experience. Enjoy new ways of selecting, editing, reusing, managing and sorting your shapes.