Typography Weekly #135

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The Box at the Mergenthaler Museum

Dough Wilson discovering images hidden for over 75 years in Germany.

realdougwilson.com

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Adobe InDesign now supports MathML

“Design math equations as beautifully as the rest of your text with accessibility-friendly MathML. Input equations as text that can be read by assistive technology and scales for visibility.”

www.adobe.com

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Browse the bibles from the Gutenberg-Museum online

Among the Gutenberg-Museum’s greatest treasures are two Gutenberg Bibles. The digital copies which were created in close cooperation with Mainz University Library are now available through Gutenberg Capture.

gutenberg-capture.ub.uni-mainz.de

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New P22 website launched

Home to an extensive array of digital typefaces, ranging from historic revivals to contemporary original designs. Now maintained by The Type Founders, LLC.

p22.com

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Latin One: 6-week online Type Design course

Latin One: Mechanics is Practica's 6-week, online type design course that offers in-depth coverage of foundational concepts like spacing, drawing, proofing, optical corrections and workflow. Oct 23 is the start date of class.

10/23/2024 until 11/27/2024

practicaprogram.com

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TDC71 open for submissions

Building upon its expanded disciplines and categories, the TDC's 71st annual competition provided an unparalleled platform for typographic excellence to shine.

enter.tdc.org

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The Virgin Wood Type Bible

A guide to historic Virgin WT fonts, including those originally made by Empire, American, Acme, and Allied wood type companies.

until 10/23/2024

www.kickstarter.com

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TODS: A typographic and OpenType default stylesheet

The idea is to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose (a column of text), making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType.

clagnut.com

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Timothy Donaldson starts foundry Shapes for Cash

“I was always producing ideas for typefaces, I wasn’t finishing them off. I have stopped full-time teaching now, and although I occasionally get asked to visit universities to do lectures, workshops, performances and suchlike, most of my time is spent tending the lettershapes.”

www.shapesforcash.com