Typography Weekly #113

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Online Course: Understanding Kerning & Tracking

A new free course in the Typography.Guru Academy.

typography.guru

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Introducing Fontstand News

Fontstand News wants to promote in-depth debate about type.

fontstand.com

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Nothing Impresses Like Letterpress

West Coast craftspeople keep this 500-year-old printing method vibrant and vital in the digital age.

www.altaonline.com

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I Love Typography is now a font reseller

Run by John Boardley, Nadine Chahine and Julia Hiles, the I Love Typography website is now an online shop for fonts, starting out with around 600 font families by 40 foundries.

fonts.ilovetypography.com

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AI Can Now Copy Text Style in Images Using Just a Single Word

Facebook is introducing TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word. With this AI model, you can edit and replace text in images.

about.fb.com

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Arabic Calligraphy Online Course: Learn Kufic Script

A course by Joumana Medlej. Explore the ancient Arabic script style of Kufic by learning to write a short text using traditional artistic practices

www.domestika.org

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Size-Specific Spacing of Fonts

“Type design must consider not only the shape of the letters, but also the white space around them, which is essential for the ease of reading.”

www.typotheque.com