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      The Curly Letter of Amsterdam (issuu preview)

      What are the origins of the exurberant swash letters that can be found on the windows of Amsterdam’s most traditional bars? This English/Dutch book by Ramiro Espinoza and Rob Becker tells the story.

      www.lecturisbooks.nl

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      OpenType spec 1.7 now with MATH and color font tables

      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.

      www.microsoft.com

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      Strangelove NextSlab 50% off

      Strangelove NextSlab is a serif version of our bestseller Strangelove Next. It contains 3 styles with two weights each.

      www.myfonts.com

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      Women in Design: Slávka Pauliková

      After graduating at the KABK Slávka Pauliková had the typeface she created at Type & Media quickly picked up by FontFont and released as FF Dora. She took some time out of her busy schedule to speak to us about eBooks and living all over the world.

      www.fontshop.com

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      Interview: Gerry Leonidas talks about the type design courses at Reading

      Typejournal.ru in­ter­viewed Uni­versity of Read­ing pro­fess­or and MATD course dir­ect­or Gerry Le­oni­das to find out how they were able to reach such a high level and what is hap­pen­ing on the course today.

      typejournal.ru

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      Jean François Porchez about Type@Paris

      Jean François Porchez explains the new type design program in Paris, which starts this summer.

      porchez.com

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      Americane – a new wood type revival

      Americane Condensed & Americane by HvD fonts is a super family of 24 fonts in total – a normal and a condensed width in six weights with matching italics.

      www.myfonts.com

      R::bert

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      Freight Sans now in compressed

      Phil’s Fonts and GarageFonts are pleased to announce the release of Freight Sans Compressed, the slimmer, taller brother of Freight Sans.

      www.myfonts.com

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      ITC New Veljovic Pro

      30 fonts, currently $99.00 instead of $499.00

      www.myfonts.com

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      Blesk

      Blesk—a chromatic typeface inspired by vintage book covers. By Ksenya Samarskaya and
      James Todd.

      blesktype.com

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      FontYou cloud-based font manager

      Access to your favorite fonts, instantly, anywhere.And guess what? It’s free.

      www.fontyou.com

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      The Ad-Man’s Desk Book

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

      imgur.com

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      Lost typeface printing blocks found in river Thames

      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.

      www.bbc.com

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      Hollie Script Pro

      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 …

      www.myfonts.com

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      Sign Painters Limited Edition DVD

      The Sign Painters movie is now available on DVD.

      www.signpaintersfilm.com

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      Murder in Italic

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

      ilovetypography.com

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      Typographics New York

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

      typographics.com

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      Calligraphy Master Class in Kiew

      Calligraphy class with Vika and Vita Lopukhiny

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      Obsidian

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

      www.typography.com

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      Fontsmith releases signage font FS Millbank

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

      www.fsmillbank.com

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      New Book: A History of Chromolithography: printed colour for all

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

      www.eyemagazine.com

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      Weingut 90% off

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

      www.myfonts.com

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      TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship

      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.

      www.tdc.org

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