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Better typography with text-wrap pretty

“Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.”

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Inside Emigre Fonts, Type Specimens, 1986–2024

With 40 complete type specimens packed into 5 pounds, this compendium documents the output of one of the earliest (and most prolific) digital type foundries.

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Grid Type: online font editor

Grid-type.com is an experimental type tool. It’s inspired by historical grid-based type design with stencils, such as the Plaque Découpée Universelle from the 1870s – a single stencil that allows you to draw all the letters of the alphabet.

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Inside the Type By series: Bernhard, Excoffon, and Novarese

Three volumes of rare specimen facsimiles lift the curtain on twentieth-century type, gathering essential documents of trendsetting faces as they were first meant to be seen.

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On Kickstarter: Six Centuries of Type & Printing

A new edition of the book by Glenn Fleishman.
“The book […] briskly tells the story of the evolution of type and printing, starting with early documented efforts and surviving artifacts from China and Korea, and introducing Gutenberg and his innovations. It then takes you through each generation of increasing sophistication in metal and relief printing until the abrupt 20th century shift into flat offset printing.”

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Videos from the Automatic Type Design 3 conference available

Automatic Type Design is an international symposium focused on digital font technologies, from design to production. The videos of the talks have now been published on the conference website.

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The Game Font Library

Game Font Library by Charlotte Couderc is a platform created to showcase and share the official interface fonts used in video games. As a Lead UI Artist for AAA games and a typography enthusiast, her goal is to collect and highlight the original typefaces that define the visual identity of games.

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The hardest working font in Manhattan

“Last year in New York, I walked over 100 miles and took thousands of photos of one and one font only. The font’s name is Gorton.”

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Book release: Impact Type, Manufacturing Type for Typewriters in Switzerland, 1941–1997

This volume, with its detailed portraits of Caractères SA, Setag and Novatype, explores the history behind the Swiss typewriter typefaces and the historical context in which they were produced.

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Ellis Carson Jones launches Prologue Type

Prologue Type is a Bay Area-based independent type foundry.

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Cheetos Other Hand Font

A “groundbreaking” new Cheetos font.

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Erik van Blokland: Drawing is thinking

Ilya Ruderman spoke with the type designer and TypeMedia head about moving beyond Bézier curves, capitalism, and the many ways type designers can support one another