Typography Weekly: Typography Weekly #137

Videos from the Automatic Type Design 3 conference available

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:27:00 +0000

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.

The Game Font Library

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:47:56 +0000

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.

The hardest working font in Manhattan

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:50:14 +0000

“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.”

Book release: Impact Type, Manufacturing Type for Typewriters in Switzerland, 1941–1997

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:06:14 +0000

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.

Ellis Carson Jones launches Prologue Type

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 06:15:54 +0000

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

Cheetos Other Hand Font

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:35:55 +0000

A “groundbreaking” new Cheetos font.

Erik van Blokland: Drawing is thinking

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 06:02:51 +0000

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

Brno Typo 2: typography and type design conference

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:14:43 +0000

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