Typography Weekly #113

A new free course in the Typography.Guru Academy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

“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.”