“Filmmaker Gary Hustwit is streaming his documentaries free worldwide during the global COVID crisis. Each week we’ll be posting another film here.”
March 17 to 24: Helvetica
“One of the new typography features in CorelDRAW 2020 is support for variable fonts. Variable fonts allow you to modify font properties such as width, slant, weight and more, resulting in a wide variety of looks from just one font. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to access these features and experiment with different properties to fine-tune the look of text in your designs.”
Glyphfinder is a character search for designers, developers and writers. It gives easy access to (currently) 34,306 manually tagged Unicode characters.
Fontsmith was recently acquired by Monotype. As a result, the Fontsmith library has now been made available on myfonts.com, fonts.com, linotype.com and fontshop.com.
“MAC Rhino Fonts have a redesigned website full of new content. Most important... the MRF typefaces are finally available to buy from its source. Secondly, the custom type section is now full of new examples. Along with this there are other stuff related to typography such as "found type"etc. Welcome!”
Archive of typography related magazines and other graphic design resources. The Letterform Archive is a non-profit library, museum, and educational institution dedicated to serving existing and potential practitioners, students, and admirers of the letter arts. Founded in 2014 and opened to the public in 2015, the San Francisco-based organization holds an extensive collection of 30,000 items ranging in age over 2,000 years.
“FontGoggles is a font viewer for various font formats. It is a desktop application for macOS. It is free and open source. The main focus is text behavior, specifically text shaping and variation behavior.”
“This tutorial explains how to add Polytonic characters to an existing Monotonic Greek typeface. In terms of the Google Fonts Glyph Sets/Greek/defined in 2017, we explain how to extend a Greek Core set into Greek Plus set.”
“Learn the history and techniques of hand lettering from a renowned design studio. This practical and visual guide features exercises, case studies, and typographic models for letter styles such as serif, sans serif, brush, and script.”
“Mass-Driver™ is an independent type foundry and design studio, established in 2020 by UK-born type designer Rutherford Craze. We produce high quality retail fonts.”
“MyFonts’ new iOS App gives you easy access to more than 50 free, high-quality fonts on any iOS device running iOS 13 or higher. Installing fonts is simple and quick, and they can be used within design and creative programs to enhance your creativity and produce beautiful documents right from your iOS device.”
“The 2019 Font Purchasing Habits Survey ran for 45 days and contained 82 questions. The survey results have now been released to the public to support the type industry.”
