“Every other month the question about who was the first female typeface designer comes up. From my armchair research, for up to the 1950s, so far we know of…”
“Detecting fraud via fonts isn’t as sexy as sleuthing art forgery; it often involves tedious measurements with digital calipers, examinations under loupes and microscopes, charts that track the slight differences between two versions of the Times Roman face, or evidence that a particular form of office printer didn’t exist at the document’s dated execution.”
“When a commercial font ends up where it shouldn’t — for instance on a huge, freely searchable database of code — it’ll most certainly break the terms of the license, and once downloaded from there, it becomes a pirated font.”
The Guardian: “one of the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics has been traced to the Bakhshali manuscript, dating from the 3rd or 4th century”
“We’re Joana and Natanael two type designers that started working together over 2 years ago. After working in custom projects together we started to design our own typefaces. After two years of hard work our website and store are out! We decided we needed a place to sell our fonts and to expand our custom clients too. We love to design new typefaces and play with new concepts!”
“On August 26, 2017, I presented the results of the second Font Purchasing Habits Survey in a 40-minute talk at TypeCon in Boston, MA. Survey data was originally collected in May & June of 2017. This article contains the transcript of the talk and the original slides.”
Archetype is a tool to help choose and save compatible font combinations. It also makes harmonious typesetting for web projects a piece of cake. You can set up sizing based on modular scales as well as vertical rhythm and spacing rules in just a few clicks, live in the browser.
Figuré is a Gothic "flamande" font designed by Emmeran Richard. Through a modern approach and inspired by the 15th century "bâtarde flamande" style used in France and Belgium, the font is great for publishing, titles and decorative elements. If you want Figuré for commercial use, please contact me : [email protected] Don't hesitate to hit the blue button and give feedback ! Peace :)
