Typography Weekly

New from Robert Slimbach: Ten Oldstyle

New from Robert Slimbach: Ten Oldstyle

“With the Ten Oldstyle project I was being called upon to develop a Latin roman design to accompany the new Ten Mincho font that was being developed by Adobe type designer Ryoko Nishizuka and the rest of Adobe’s Japan-based type team.”

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Happy 100th birthday, Helmut Matheis!

Happy 100th birthday, Helmut Matheis!

Hans Helmut Matheis celebrates his 100th birthday, which might very well make him the oldest living type designer. In honor of the centenarian, Fust & Friends shows a selection of his work as lettering artist and designer of logos and typefaces.

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Apply now for Type@Paris Summer 2018

Apply now for Type@Paris Summer 2018

The #typeparis18 programme will take place between 11 June 2018 and 13 July 2018. Apply before the March 14 2018 to learn from renowned professionals and experienced instructors!

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Creative Characters #113: Martin Majoor

Creative Characters #113: Martin Majoor

Born in 1960, Martin has divided his time between his native Arnhem and Warsaw, Poland since 1997. His most recent-typefaces are all part of The Questa Project, a large superfamily of four interrelated designs Martin co-developed with fellow Arnhem-based designer Jos Buivenga.

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Paciencia type family

Paciencia type family

A text family based on calligraphic sketches, developed during 8 years. The regular weight is free!

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Typeverything Fonts

Typeverything Fonts

New site for Typeverything.com.
Well known platform for promoting type lettering related projects launches it's new website with a brand new fonts shop.

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Lussu file #1: And what about Gutenberg?

Lussu file #1: And what about Gutenberg?

Giovanni Lussu questions whether movable types were strictly necessary for the spread of books.

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Registration for TYPO Labs 2018 is now open

Registration for TYPO Labs 2018 is now open

“Created for developers by developers, the third TYPO Labs will cover the full stack of font developments, including OpenType Variation, CJK deployment and type challenges in the field of VR and AR.”

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Neue Helvetica World

Neue Helvetica World

Neue Helvetica World covers the pan-European area (extended Latin alphabet, Cyrillic and Greek) as well as Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Thai and Vietnamese.

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Teddy by Fust & Friends is on Fontspring and 66% off

Teddy by Fust & Friends is on Fontspring and 66% off

Teddy by Minjoo Ham is a script-style display font in three layers, plus a stand-alone “Open” variety and a set of multi-language catchwords.

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What’s in a name? The perception of “Pro”

What’s in a name? The perception of “Pro”

What does it mean to you when you see a font with “Pro” in the name? A Medium article by Mary Catherine Pflug.

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IBM has a new corporate type family and you can get it for free

IBM has a new corporate type family and you can get it for free

A super family (sans, serif, mono) with 16 styles each, designed by Bold Monday with Michael Abbink. Available under the Open Font License.

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Adobe #ColorFontWeek

Adobe #ColorFontWeek

Beginning this week, Adobe is partnering with Fontself to showcase the possibilities of color fonts.

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An introduction to software for type design

An introduction to software for type design

“An influx of new tools has given rise to a wider enthusiasm for type-creation from designers of all backgrounds, making font development as simple or as complex as you would like it to be.”

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The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces

The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces

Florian Schulz: “The seemingly mindless choice of a font is a general problem with font menus: there are either too few or too many options.
On one hand, a limitation to system fonts, as seen in the video, can lead to a bad choice because there simply isn’t something better installed.
On the other hand, web font libraries with hundreds or thousands of fonts can be quite overwhelming and lead to a paradox of choice.”

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