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“Our prompt was that the font had to be an exact replica of the letters in the logo,” says Maag, who knew it would be a challenge due to its reverse creative process. “Usually you make the font and then do the logo,” he notes. Dalton Maag had 3 letters and 4 figures to use as a roadmap.

“Volunteers from our ranks or from outside the group will offer informal help to anyone who is looking for career, industry or educational guidance by professionals in the fields of type, typography, or the lettering arts.”

A somewhat simplicistic introduction to the emotional elements conveyed by the visual design of typefaces.

After New York subway’s and NASA’s, here’s another reprint of a classic identity standards manual.

A type diff tool that visually contrasts the differences between two fonts.

The TYPO San Francisco live streams (by Jen Bilik, Tash Wong, Chip Kidd, Sarah Hyndman, Erik Marinovich and Daniel Gjøde) can still be watched online. Other talks are online accessible for participants of the event.

“For our international Font Development Team we are hiring a Font Engineer (m/f) for our Bad Homburg office”.

Neacademia Subhead by Sergei Egorov is the third member of the system of Aldine type revivals from Rosetta.

Reviews of notable font releases from the year 2014.

Type.js allows you to write new CSS properties to take finer typographic control of type styles on the web. Created by Nathan Ford

A display typeface by Neil Summerour. Microsite: http://lust.positype.com/Lust-Hedonist/

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.

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.

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