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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. 

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 …

“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.

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

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.

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

30 fonts, currently $99.00 instead of $499.00

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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