Typography Weekly

Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts

Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts

“Over 98 percent of the passwords were cracked, thanks to the site's poor password security.”

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New and 50% off: PMN Caecilia Sans

New and 50% off: PMN Caecilia Sans

“Almost 30 years after the development of the very popular and widely used slab serif font PMN Caecilia, Peter Matthias Noordzij has expanded his font, adding a sans variant to the extended family.”

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The Weird Words and Phrases Designers Use to Test Their Fonts

The Weird Words and Phrases Designers Use to Test Their Fonts

For designers of type, creating the characters is only part of the job. Much of the hidden engineering and heavy lifting comes in fine tuning how letters, ligatures, digits, and punctuation work together in combination—and kerning the whitespace between them. Many type designers have favorite words and phrases which they use to assess and stress-test some of the more unusual letter sequences.

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Rare William Caxton prints discovered

Rare William Caxton prints discovered

“Pages printed more than 500 years ago by William Caxton, who brought printing to England, have been discovered by the University of Reading.”

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New foundry: XYZ Type

New foundry: XYZ Type

“We’re Ben and Jesse, and we make fonts. After collaborating frequently over the past few years, we thought it was about time we teamed up to sell our designs through our own independent type foundry, XYZ Type.”

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Patrick Slack and Jena Myung explore the art of type with accuracy

Patrick Slack and Jena Myung explore the art of type with accuracy

“Patrick Slack focuses on design influenced by art and technology. To showcase his work we chose to feature a collaboration that speaks volumes. “Fringe Intermission is an exploration of space using the city as medium” writes Slack.”

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Dubai Introduces Its Own Font, Lauding Free Expression It Does Not Permit

Dubai Introduces Its Own Font, Lauding Free Expression It Does Not Permit

“The Dubai font was introduced in Twitter posts by the city’s crown prince and Microsoft, whose Office 365 software has the font in Arabic and Latin script.”

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2017 font purchasing habits survey

2017 font purchasing habits survey

“The 2017 survey features new-and-improved questions about your font preferences and purchasing habits. After completing the survey, you will receive a bundle of 9 fonts for free from notable type designers.”

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The National Print Museum Ireland is hiring

The National Print Museum Ireland is hiring

Vacancy for Education Officer at the National Print Museum
10 Month Fixed Term Maternity Contract

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Indiegogo: The Letterpress Depot

Indiegogo: The Letterpress Depot

“We are raising funds to rehab the basement of a 1915 train depot to create a hands on working letterpress museum and community print studio.”

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Creative Characters: Alisa Nowak

Creative Characters: Alisa Nowak

An interview by Jan Middendorp.

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Kris Sowersby: Primitive Typographic Communications from Afar

Kris Sowersby: Primitive Typographic Communications from Afar

The designer of the new Untitled type series talks to Elizabeth Carey Smith in advance of his talk at Typographics this June.

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Warm Animal Blood: Dwiggins’s Mark on Contemporary Type Design

Warm Animal Blood: Dwiggins’s Mark on Contemporary Type Design

Stephen Coles asked a few designers to describe their relationship to the man and his work.

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Font Map

Font Map

Font selection is one of the most common visual choices designers make—and most fall back on old favorites, or search for a font within categories. By leveraging AI and convolutional neural networks to draw higher-vision pattern recognition, we have created a tool that helps designers understand and see relationships across more than 750 web fonts.

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1977 EPA Graphic Standards System reissue

1977 EPA Graphic Standards System reissue

Designed by Chermayeff & Geismar and reissued as a hardcover book printed in 14 Pantone® colors.
A portion of the proceeds will go to Earthjustice’s programmatic expenses in their mission to protect the environment and AIGA’s operational expenses for its Design Archives, which identify, preserve, and make collections of enduring value available to the public.

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