Typography Weekly #135

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

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.

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

A guide to historic Virgin WT fonts, including those originally made by Empire, American, Acme, and Allied wood type companies.

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.

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.