Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr. Rubio called a “wasteful” sop to diversity.
Amsterdam Typography has published 1500 historical photos with lettering and typography from Amsterdam. It was made possible by the digital image bank of the Amsterdam City Archives, practical support from the city archives’ staff, and additional permission from the heirs of some of the photographers.
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.
We’re pleased to announce — after Board nominations were open from August 14 to August 30, and a vote by Members took place from September 26 to October 3 — that ATypI has seven new Board members.
We will spend 2 days looking at how AI can impact the world of type, from theory to AI models to practical implementations. We will hear about community concerns, discuss the legality and ethics of AI training models, and examine the threats and opportunities that AI represents.
Based on Updike’s Printing Types books. All text for this project was manually retyped and formatted and tens of thousands of pages of antique books were consulted to find as many original source materials as possible.
This version adds 4,803 new characters, including four new scripts, eight new emoji characters, as well as many other characters and symbols, bringing the total of encoded characters to 159,801.
“Typeface 4.1 is all about characters! 🦊 Find the character you need using the new character categories, character search and character ordering. Then drag and drop glyphs to export them as editable vector in your design or as SVG.”
ATypI invites proposals for talks, workshops, panels, and experimental presentations for its two 2026 conferences: 1) Stanford, California — Homescreen, 2) Sharjah, UAE — Between
“A brand new design tool made for creating beautiful, custom typography designs. Typogram Studio gives you the power to make polished, typographic visuals without needing complex software.”
Amsterdam had its own, rational Art Nouveau variant. Mathieu Lauweriks was a leading representative. Klaas van Leeuwen also moved in these circles and Mathieu Lommen wrote an article about one of his books.
