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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

“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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

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