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“I have built a new Font and in order to develop looking for backers on kickstarter to take this project to a finalised typeface.”

“A tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour who came to town with a story in lieu of a song — an itinerant scholar and a master of the typecase. Carrying a union journeyman’s card and little else, these train-hopping typographers criss-crossed the continent by foot and rail for more than a century. To the tramp printers, freedom and the open road were far more valuable than material possessions.”

A comprehensive compendium of typographic wonders from Rian Hughes! Device Fonts, his type foundry, is turning 30. To mark this occasion, we’re launching Typeractive – a book collecting every font Device has ever released, and more besides.

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.

“Patrick Slack focuses on design influenced by art and technology. To showcase his work we chose to feature a collaboration that speaks volumes. “Fringe Intermission is an exploration of space using the city as medium” writes Slack.”

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

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

The Sign Painters movie is now available on DVD.

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

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

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

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 new, free, online-only type conference for those who see, draw, make, study, and sell type. Registrations are open.