Typography Weekly #117

“We’ve searched through the font families that debuted on Fontspring in 2021 and we’ve chosen 50 of our favorites.”

This free masterclass cuts right to the chase and reveals exactly how Martina was able to learn and master the art of hand-lettering, showing you how you can do the same right now.

Unicode 14.0 adds 838 characters, for a total of 144,697 characters. These additions include 5 new scripts, for a total of 159 scripts, as well as 37 new emoji characters.

WebKit added support for the font-palette CSS property and @font-palette-values rule. The font-palette property provides a way for web developers to select one of several different pre-defined color palettes contained inside a color font.

The type trends for 2022 according to Monotype. Also available as a webinar and downloadable report.

Font Fashion Week is a series of free online events organized by I Love Typography to celebrate the latest trends in international type design.

Creative Market Labs, Inc., running Creative Market, purchased the Fontspring assets on 2022-01-28. Creative Market itself was bought by Dribbble (Dribbble Holdings Ltd.), which itself belongs to Tiny Capital.

For the next few months, Type Network is going to take some in-depth looks at the still-developing world of variable fonts from a number of different perspectives, from the technical to the creative.