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The TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship is sponsored by the Type Directors Club and Monotype in the amount of $5,000 and will be awarded to a female student currently enrolled in her junior undergraduate year to be applied directly to her senior year tuition, which begins September 2015 and concludes in May 2016.

“A majestic typeface uses digital means to achieve traditional ends.” From Hoefler & Co.

The newest version 1.7 of the OpenType spec is fully equivalent to the ISO/IEC 14496-22:2015 (3rd edition) “Open Font Format” standard. The standard will be published in June 2015 and at that time will be freely available for download from the ISO website.

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

Weingut Script Flourish is a decorative display font with high contrasts, perfectly drawn to the tiniest details. It’s currently 90% off.

By Michael Twyman British Library £75 / Oak Knoll Press $130, hardback

A font family by Stuart de Rozario specifically made for wayfinding.

Calligraphy class with Vika and Vita Lopukhiny

A conference for people who use type. Hosted by CooperType & LubalinCenter

John Boardley with some notes on the relationship between Francesco Griffo and Aldus Manutius.

The Sign Painters movie is now available on DVD.

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.

A typeface that pays tribute to all letterers that created amazing signs in magazines, walls and windows through the brush lettering during many years, especially in the 50s and 60s. This font is 100% based on the brush traces, it has 2100 glyphs, contextual ligatures from two to four characters …

Printing blocks for a typeface called Doves Type has been discovered in the river Thames. The font has not been used for nearly a century as the printing type-blocks, used to print letters, were thrown into the river in 1917.

A Reliable Guide to Media, Press Advertising, Mail Orer, Sales Letters, Folders, Layouts, Production Methods, etc.