Typography Weekly #137

Automatic Type Design is an international symposium focused on digital font technologies, from design to production. The videos of the talks have now been published on the conference website.

Game Font Library by Charlotte Couderc is a platform created to showcase and share the official interface fonts used in video games. As a Lead UI Artist for AAA games and a typography enthusiast, her goal is to collect and highlight the original typefaces that define the visual identity of games.

“Last year in New York, I walked over 100 miles and took thousands of photos of one and one font only. The font’s name is Gorton.”

This volume, with its detailed portraits of Caractères SA, Setag and Novatype, explores the history behind the Swiss typewriter typefaces and the historical context in which they were produced.

Prologue Type is a Bay Area-based independent type foundry.

A “groundbreaking” new Cheetos font.

Ilya Ruderman spoke with the type designer and TypeMedia head about moving beyond Bézier curves, capitalism, and the many ways type designers can support one another

“Our program, co-curated with type designer Petra Dočekalová, shows how smart typography drives business success.”