Typography Weekly #119

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Handwriting across ages and regions: Latin survey

As a company that develops fonts, we’re interested in learning how people write. In particular, we want to know more about how people around the world write by hand and how they perceive handwriting by others, a topic on which we have found no current literature.

www.typotheque.com

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GRANSHAN conference: Signs of the times

The GRANSHAN Two-Day-Hybrid-Conference under the title Signs of the times explores the big and small questions that concern the typographic community and type users alike – daily matters and global concerns.

signs-of-the-times.net

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Typefaces Inspired by the Bauhaus

From Futura to ITC Bauhaus, our survey of Bauhaus type continues with a look at typefaces that adopted the school’s simplified, geometric ideals.

letterformarchive.org

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Fontstand International Typography Conference

The Fontstand conference will be hosting a series of presentations and speakers that have a visible impact on the world around us.

09/09/2022 until 09/10/2022

fontstand.com

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The Power of Print

An online event with lectures by Starshaped Press, The Letterpress Collective and
Kennedy Prints

05/19/2022 until 05/19/2022

sbf.org.uk

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Fontspring Spring Flash Deals

Spring into savings with incredible font deals available for a short time!

until 05/28/2022

www.fontspring.com

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Call for Applications: Frutiger Archive research program

Since 2021, the ANRT is hosting in Nancy an exceptional archive of works by Adrian Frutiger. The candidate will be responsible for the study, inventory and digitization of these documents.

until 06/20/2022

anrt-nancy.fr

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Google introduces icon font Material Symbols using variable font technology

Available in 3 styles: Outlined, Rounded and Sharp. Each provides 4 stylistic attributes: Weight, Fill, Optical size, and Grade.

fonts.google.com