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AI can now set (almost) perfect typography

AI can now set (almost) perfect typography

Stability.ai announced Deep Floyd, a generative AI capable of setting perfect typography in any setting made of any material under any conditions imaginable.

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How to design fonts. A new book from Blaze Type

How to design fonts. A new book from Blaze Type

A 140 page PDF (or print-on-demand book) containing all our knowledge to kickstart you into font design and become a typeface designer

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Legibility: how and why typography affects ease of reading

Legibility: how and why typography affects ease of reading

A new, digital edition, in English and Spanish of Mary Dyson’s book is available free of charge, like the other texts on Design Regression.

The book is a comprehensive attempt to make descriptions of legibility research more accessible to those who can benefit: practitioners, students, enthusiasts.

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Fonts In Use: Multiscript

Fonts In Use: Multiscript

Matthijs Sluiter highlights four design projects where two scripts are each used as equal partners in the work.

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Gerard Unger Scholarship 2023

Gerard Unger Scholarship 2023

TypeTogether’s Gerard Unger Scholarship is now open for submissions. All current and graduated students from 2022 and 2023 may submit their type families for an opportunity at this mentorship.

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Letteres: new online shop for typography products

Letteres: new online shop for typography products

LETTERES is a brand new line of limited edition products by Parachute for design enthusiasts.

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Proof&Co. 2022 Annual Report/Almanac for independent type

Proof&Co. 2022 Annual Report/Almanac for independent type

The 2022 Annual Report lays out the facts, figures, stats, and analysis behind the world of independent typography in 2022. The 2022 Almanac is the ultimate reference guide and index to the over 270 font families and collections released in 2022.

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Monotype acquires fonts from Milieu Grotesque and Paulo Goode

Monotype acquires fonts from Milieu Grotesque and Paulo Goode

Monotype announced its acquisition of five premium typeface families from the Milieu Grotesque catalogue and Paulo Goode’s current type catalogue.

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An end to typographic widows on the web

An end to typographic widows on the web

Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration which promises to virtually end typographic widows.

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Why Did Adobe Discontinue Font Chameleon in the 1990s?

Why Did Adobe Discontinue Font Chameleon in the 1990s?

There is a popular myth that Adobe bought Font Chameleon to kill a threatening technology. Actually, no, removing it from the market was not a motivation for the acquisition …

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Font label Faire Type launched

Font label Faire Type launched

Based in Brooklyn, Faire Type is an independent type foundry run by French-American designers Sabrina Nacmias and Maxime Gau.

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Adobe Fonts now with variable fonts

Adobe Fonts now with variable fonts

Over 100 fonts were made available including a new website interface to see the design space of the variable fonts.

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Stop stealing Sheep as free PDF

Stop stealing Sheep as free PDF

“Stop Stealing Sheep and find out how type works, 4th edition” (PDF, 23 Mb) is published and open to all under a Creative Commons license on Google Fonts.

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State department bans Times New Roman, adopts Calibri in bid for accessibility

State department bans Times New Roman, adopts Calibri in bid for accessibility

‘The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,’ read the subject line of a cable from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to U.S. embassies as part of an accessibility push.

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Garage Fonts is under new ownership

Garage Fonts is under new ownership

Jon Young (Tiotype) is the new owner of GarageFonts. Going forward, the new GarageFonts aims to be a steward of the library and to build on its legacy by releasing new typefaces that are relevant, significant, purposive, and beautiful.

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