Typography Weekly

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Registration for Typewknd 2021 is open

We’re an online-only type conference for everyone who sees, draws, makes, studies, and sells type.

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Advance registration for TypeCon2021 is open

Advance registration for TypeCon2021: Together is now open while the program schedule is being finalised.
The virtual event organised by SOTA will take place October 21st–24th, while the discounted pricing will be available only until September 6th.

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RoboFont version 4 released

“After an intensive rewrite the RoboFont Team is happy to present your RoboFont 4!”

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Online Course: Understanding Kerning & Tracking

A new free course in the Typography.Guru Academy.

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Introducing Fontstand News

Fontstand News wants to promote in-depth debate about type.

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Nothing Impresses Like Letterpress

West Coast craftspeople keep this 500-year-old printing method vibrant and vital in the digital age.

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I Love Typography is now a font reseller

Run by John Boardley, Nadine Chahine and Julia Hiles, the I Love Typography website is now an online shop for fonts, starting out with around 600 font families by 40 foundries.

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AI Can Now Copy Text Style in Images Using Just a Single Word

Facebook is introducing TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo using just a single word. With this AI model, you can edit and replace text in images.

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Arabic Calligraphy Online Course: Learn Kufic Script

A course by Joumana Medlej. Explore the ancient Arabic script style of Kufic by learning to write a short text using traditional artistic practices

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Size-Specific Spacing of Fonts

“Type design must consider not only the shape of the letters, but also the white space around them, which is essential for the ease of reading.”

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Windows font manager MainType 11 released

MainType 11 now comes with axis sliders for your variable fonts.

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Design Regression, a journalette by Rosetta

“Design Regression is a journalette (mini journal) publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research. It aims for the hard-to-get blend of approachability with seriousness and relevance to practice.”

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Understanding diacritics

“TypeTogether cofounder Veronika Burian discusses the major Latin-based information you should know about diacritics: those accented characters we include in all our font families.”