Typography Weekly

New variable fonts from Adobe Originals

New variable fonts from Adobe Originals

“Photoshop and Illustrator announced plenty of new features at Adobe MAX this week, include some exciting typographic features we’ve been anticipating: support for OpenType variable fonts.”

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Designing Hebrew Type

Designing Hebrew Type

An article by Peter Bil'ak on I Love Typography

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Behind Simoncini’s Glasses

Behind Simoncini’s Glasses

“Francesco Simoncini was a type designer and an innovator. An exhibition and a catalogue mark his re-discovery”

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Quinoa by Catharsis Fonts now has 90 styles and is 33% off

Quinoa by Catharsis Fonts now has 90 styles and is 33% off

“Quinoa is display typeface by Catharsis Fonts that unites the seemingly opposed concepts of clean geometric architecture and organic humanist warmth. Quinoa covers multilingual Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Armenian.”

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Apply for the next TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship

Apply for the next TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship

The TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship is sponsored by the Type Directors Club and Monotype in the amount of $5,000. The scholarship is open to matriculating female (by birth or identified as such) bachelor’s degree students currently enrolled in their junior undergraduate year.

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Online course: The Complete Typographer

Online course: The Complete Typographer

A comprehensive package of typographic history, theory, typeface design, technology, design practice, and commerce. Instructors: Steven Heller, Angela Riechers, Yomar Augusto, Victoria Rushton, Tobias Frere-Jones, Claudia de Almeida, Richard Kegler.

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The Faces of Microsoft

The Faces of Microsoft

Microsoft has had big impact on type, in the office, on the desktop, online. Here’s how it happened. By John D. Berry.

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Mexico Earthquake Relief Font Bundle

Mexico Earthquake Relief Font Bundle

We are all shocked in Latinotype that Mexico was hit by a massive earthquake and want to help out! That is why we have joined forces with some fellow Latin American foundries to support those affected by the earthquake and we are offering a superb font bundle for just $29 (available for 30 days). 100% of all the money raised from the bundle sales will go to the victims. The bundle includes 29 fonts and 75 styles, by 9 different foundries, that provide you with a wide range of choices to customiz

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New from Hoftype and 90% off: Urania

New from Hoftype and 90% off: Urania

“Urania is a new aproach to early sans serif typefaces, in particular Ferdinand Theinhardt’s types which came out at the beginning of the 20th century. Urania is not an adaption, but a new interpretation of familiar and successful formal features, transformed into a contemporary look.”

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Fifty Type Specimens: From the Collection of Tobias Frere-Jones

Fifty Type Specimens: From the Collection of Tobias Frere-Jones

“Fifty Type Specimens is a collection of postcards with stunning images of typography, for inspiration, correspondence, or display. Cards feature classic letterforms, pages from specimen books, and crops of gorgeous letters presented in a box with the feel of an old specimen book.”

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Fontstand 2.0 for MacOS released

Fontstand 2.0 for MacOS released

“Version 2.0 makes browsing of 1,200 font families much faster & let you type your own text. See also parametric filtering, fonts in use…”

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London Type Foundry launches

London Type Foundry launches

INTRODUCING THE LONDON TYPE FOUNDRY: FONTS WITH A LONDON AXIS

London Type is a brand new foundry releasing quality fonts infused with creativity, innovation, heritage, tolerance, fun and cultural diversity — all inspired by the city of London. Includes a London Dingbat set from guest designer Peter Grundy comprising iconic London landmarks and symbols, our alternative corporate identity for the capital.

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Variable Fonts coming to Photoshop this year

Variable Fonts coming to Photoshop this year

“We’re excited to give you yet another sneak peek into some of the new functionality coming to Photoshop CC later this year. Variable Font, a new OpenType font format that supports custom font attributes like weight, width, and slant is coming soon to Photoshop CC.”

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Progressive Punctuation

Progressive Punctuation

“A collection of non-standard punctuation marks we should be using today.”

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Fonts don’t matter

Fonts don’t matter

“You might want to sit down for this. Take a few deep breaths. Go to your happy place. Because I’m going to explain why fonts are overrated and what actually matters for readability.”

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