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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.
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.
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
“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.”
“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.”
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.
“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.”
