Typography Weekly: Typography Weekly #141

Typographer font subscription platform from The Type Founders launched

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:36:21 +0000

“Discover, sync, and try thousands of fonts from your favorite foundries. Design purposefully. Stay in sync.”

Font editor Glyphs 3.4 released

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:37:23 +0000

This update brings macOS 26 compatibility, a new crash reporter, additions to Font Info and improvements for variable fonts and smart components.

ILT Fonts and AI online conference

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:02:27 +0000

We will spend 2 days looking at how AI can impact the world of type, from theory to AI models to practical implementations. We will hear about community concerns, discuss the legality and ethics of AI training models, and examine the threats and opportunities that AI represents.

Digital Version of Printing Types

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:53:30 +0000

Based on Updike’s Printing Types books. All text for this project was manually retyped and formatted and tens of thousands of pages of antique books were consulted to find as many original source materials as possible.

Unicode 17.0 Release Announcement

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:49:59 +0000

This version adds 4,803 new characters, including four new scripts, eight new emoji characters, as well as many other characters and symbols, bringing the total of encoded characters to 159,801.

James Mosley 1935-2025

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:25:46 +0000

Catherine Dixon pays tribute to printing librarian, teacher and scholar James Mosley

Font Manager Typeface 4.1 released

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:15:12 +0000

“Typeface 4.1 is all about characters! 🦊 Find the character you need using the new character categories, character search and character ordering. Then drag and drop glyphs to export them as editable vector in your design or as SVG.”