Typography Weekly

Over 600 fonts added to Creative Cloud subscriptions

Over 600 fonts added to Creative Cloud subscriptions

“Creative Cloud customers now have access to 665 new fonts from 41 different type families, thanks to new additions from Monotype.”

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Communication Arts’ 2019 Typography Competition

Communication Arts’ 2019 Typography Competition

“Our juried competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and hand lettering. Any typographic project first published or produced from September 2017 through September 2018 is eligible.”

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TDC launches Typegeist

TDC launches Typegeist

“We tell stories of the letters which give form to the narratives of our time. We discuss the zeitgeist in typography, within its background and context. We meet the faces behind the fonts, across geographies, cultures, and scripts.”

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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

“Several of the added characters had no obvious sources, and nobody could tell what they meant or how they should be pronounced. Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters.”

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The Grammar of Arabic

The Grammar of Arabic

“How do you adapt a latin type design into Arabic? TypeThursday spoke with Arabic typeface designer Kourish Beigpour to find out how he interpreted the font Faction from Lost Type Co-op.”

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Registration for ATypI 2018 Antwerp is now open

Registration for ATypI 2018 Antwerp is now open

“You’re invited to a celebration of all things typographic! Join us 11–15 September in Antwerp for ATypI 2018, the sixty-second annual conference of the non-profit Association Typographique Internationale. Five type-filled days and nights in this historic city will engage, entertain, and inspire you.”

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T-shirts from I Love Typography

T-shirts from I Love Typography

“100% organic, typographically tasteful Tees available now!”

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Call for papers for ICTVC 7

Call for papers for ICTVC 7

“In 2019 the 7th International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication – titled ‘Challenging design paths’ – travels to Patras, Greece. In collaboration with the Library & Information Centre of the University of Patras the conference will examine the value of design for visual communication and provoke participants to challenge current assumptions.”

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Font scandal at FIFA World Cup

Font scandal at FIFA World Cup

“While millions of people are enjoying the excitement and drama of the World Cup matches, the type design community is outraged at the low level of the event’s typography. We have undertaken to shed light on the situation, adopting a broader approach to the issue …”

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The state of underlines and strikethroughs

The state of underlines and strikethroughs

“OpenType has 4 parameters we can customize. However, are these values really enforced outside our font editors? The specs for underlines and strikethroughs treat them as suggestions, so it is up to the software to use them or not. On the other hand, if a type designer bothered to set values for these parameters, I strongly believe the software should honor them.”

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Morisawa Type Design Competition 2019

Morisawa Type Design Competition 2019

“Morisawa Type Design Competition has been giving birth to new typeface designs for decades since the first competition held in 1984. Through entries with bold ideas and new attempts in anticipation with unprecedented expressive capacity, the last competition in 2016 received more than 700 entries from 49 countries and regions, including both Kanji and Latin categories.”

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Lost & Foundry

Lost & Foundry

This collection of 7 typefaces is based on the disappearing signs of Soho, at risk of being lost forever due to the ever changing landscape of the area.
Fontsmith partnered with The House of St. Barnabas, whose work as a not for profit charity aims to break the cycle of homelessness in London.
Each purchase comes with a one month membership to The House and 100% of the proceeds from sales of fonts go directly to the charity.

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Keyman 10 was released and it is now open source

Keyman 10 was released and it is now open source

Keyman makes it possible to type in over 1,000 languages on Windows, macOS, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, and in a web browser.

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Underware: Very able fonts

Underware: Very able fonts

“Instead of wrapping old ideas into new techologies, maybe variable fonts require new ideas?”
Underware’s new playground for variable fonts works in the latest versions of Chrome, Edge, and Safari.

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The Berlin locations of the Eduard Haenel and Wilhelm Gronau typefoundries (1838–1918)

The Berlin locations of the Eduard Haenel and Wilhelm Gronau typefoundries (1838–1918)

“The Haenel printing house’s roots went back to 1731. It was founded in Magdeburg – where it was a court establishment (Hofbuchdruckerei) …”

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