Typography Weekly: Typography Weekly #117

Best Fonts of 2021 at Fontspring

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:45:19 +0000

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

Free lettering master class with Martina Flor

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:37:58 +0000

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 has been released

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:33:21 +0000

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.

Safari 15.4 adds support for color font palettes

Sat, 19 Mar 2022 07:38:05 +0000

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.

Type Trends Report 2022, by the Monotype Studio

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:09:21 +0000

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

ILT Font Fashion Week

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:42:56 +0000

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

Fontspring has been sold

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 18:34:35 +0000

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.

Variable Fonts: Variations on a theme

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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.