Typography Weekly #134

Discover how a pioneering company called The Monotype Corporation made the printed word far easier to produce by mechanising the process of casting and preparing metal type for printing.

Explore the latest updates to SF Symbols, Apple’s library of iconography designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco, the system font for all Apple platforms

A collection of artifacts and publications relating to Letraset and other brands of dry transfer type.

Incremental transfer allows web clients to load only the portions of the font they actually need which speeds up font loads and reduces data transfer needed to load the fonts.

The first comprehensive biography of one of the most important designers of the 20th century.

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The latest issue of Footnotes was released this summer. La Police — the publisher — launched a new website where you can purchase back issues as well as a subscription for 3 issues (highly recommended to support this independent publication). Under Stories, you’ll find a selection of online articles from out-of-print issues, free access.

“FontCreator for Windows has been downloaded over 5 million times since 1997. After years of requests from Mac users, we are excited to announce that this popular font editor is now finally available for macOS.“