Typography Weekly: Link suggestions

Fontlab introduces Vexy Lines and offers discounts for all products

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:14:02 +0000

Until December 1st: With coupon VEXYFONT25 at fontlab.shop get FONTLAB 8 at $299, EDU version at $250, our brand-new VEXY LINES app at $75 …

On Kickstarter: Thirty Years of Device Fonts

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:14:47 +0000

A comprehensive compendium of typographic wonders from Rian Hughes! Device Fonts, his type foundry, is turning 30. To mark this occasion, we’re launching Typeractive – a book collecting every font Device has ever released, and more besides.

ATypI Tech Talks

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:15:21 +0000

ATypI Tech Talks is an event devoted to advances and innovation in technology, engineering, standards, formats, experimentation, tools, and other essential subjects related to type design, typography, font production, font formats, browsers, apps, web development, multiscript design, type education, type business, and more. ATypI Tech Talks will feature three days filled with presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and conversation.

Seasonal gift: LL Shatter77

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:20:29 +0000

For a limited time, Swiss foundry Lineto is offering a free download of Shatter77, a design that applies the Shatter treatment to their Unica77.

On Kickstarter: The Tramp Printers

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:43:33 +0000

“A tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour who came to town with a story in lieu of a song — an itinerant scholar and a master of the typecase. Carrying a union journeyman’s card and little else, these train-hopping typographers criss-crossed the continent by foot and rail for more than a century. To the tramp printers, freedom and the open road were far more valuable than material possessions.”

Design Cuts Live 2020 with free typography and lettering sessions

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 08:57:48 +0000

The online event runs from October 5th to October 19th

TypeWknd

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:50:13 +0000

A new, free, online-only type conference for those who see, draw, make, study, and sell type. Registrations are open.

It’s time to act

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

We ask the type and design industry • to actively include more BIPOC • to stop using the term Non-Latin • to diversify education • to challenge the practice of designing for scripts we did not grow up reading and writing

Cymru Wales typefaces

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:06:13 +0000

“A contemporary font family designed to represent Wales to the world [...]. Whilst the bespoke typefaces take cues from the Welsh typographical heritage, special care was taken not to wander into the territory of pastiche or parody. All three commissions were developed in close collaboration with the Colophon Foundry with additional consultancy from Joseph Burrin.”

Letterform Archive on The Archive

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:55:51 +0000

Archive of typography related magazines and other graphic design resources. The Letterform Archive is a non-profit library, museum, and educational institution dedicated to serving existing and potential practitioners, students, and admirers of the letter arts. Founded in 2014 and opened to the public in 2015, the San Francisco-based organization holds an extensive collection of 30,000 items ranging in age over 2,000 years.

On Kickstarter: Neuhaus font

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:48:39 +0000

“I have built a new Font and in order to develop looking for backers on kickstarter to take this project to a finalised typeface.”

DR Publik — Type family for The Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:57:09 +0000

The bespoke type family DR Publik is designed to strengthen legibility and ensure visual consistency on all platforms for millions of users. DR Publik will be used on TV channels, streaming platforms, news services, radio channels, websites, apps, concert hall, symphony orchestra, big band, choirs etc.

Communication Arts’ 2019 Typography Competition

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:02:50 +0000

“Our juried competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and hand lettering. Any typographic project first published or produced from September 2017 through September 2018 is eligible.”

Globotipo - Rede Globo new custom type family designed by Plau

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Making a typeface that one hundred million people see every day is no small task. Plau partnered with Rede Globo’s creative team to do just that. The result is Globotipo, a 3-style, 30-font super family created to refreshed and expand the typographic voice for Brazil’s ultimate broadcaster. Check out the video case above or scroll to learn more.

Patrick Slack and Jena Myung explore the art of type with accuracy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Patrick Slack focuses on design influenced by art and technology. To showcase his work we chose to feature a collaboration that speaks volumes. “Fringe Intermission is an exploration of space using the city as medium” writes Slack.”