Typography Weekly

Free font family Latina Essential

Free font family Latina Essential

“Latina Essential is a humanist typeface designed for use in continuous text. The font comes in 4 weights with matching (true) italics.”

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PhD studentship: British women printmakers in the Long Eighteenth Century

PhD studentship: British women printmakers in the Long Eighteenth Century

“Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship researching the role, status and output of amateur and professional women printmakers in Britain during the long eighteenth century, drawing on the Victoria & Albert Museum’s strong collections of work by women printmakers of this period. ”

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Emoji One 3.0 released

Emoji One 3.0 released

“The EmojiOne design team has spent the last several months redesigning, refining, and in some cases completely recreating the entire collection, presented now as version 3.0.”

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Typofonderie releases Mencken

Typofonderie releases Mencken

“An American Scotch typeface remixed à la française in 63 styles.”

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In memory of Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow Flag, we've created a font for all

In memory of Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow Flag, we've created a font for all

On 31 March, 2017, Gilbert Baker the creator of the iconic Rainbow Flag sadly passed away. Mr. Baker was both an LGBTQ activist and artist, and was known for helping friends create banners for protests and marches. To honor the memory of Gilbert Baker, NewFest and NYC Pride partnered with Fontself to create a free font inspired by the design language of the iconic Rainbow Flag, the font was named 'Gilbert' after Mr. Baker.

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The variable state of the browsers, early 2017

The variable state of the browsers, early 2017

“A few days after the TYPO Labs conference in Berlin it seems like a good idea to summarize the current capabilities of the major browsers in handling variable fonts.”

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Kazakhstan: President Calls for Switch to Latin Alphabet by 2025

Kazakhstan: President Calls for Switch to Latin Alphabet by 2025

“Nursultan Nazarbayev wrote in Kazakh language newspaper Egemen Kazakhstan that under government plans, all official documents, periodicals and books in Kazakh should be published in Latin letters by that date.”

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New and 50% off: FF Casus

New and 50% off: FF Casus

“Inspired by the early Antiquas of the 18th century, Eugene Yukechev’s modern design adds a fresh touch to these easily legible fonts.”

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Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser?

Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser?

Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work?

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Apply now for Typography & Language at Esad, Amiens

Apply now for Typography & Language at Esad, Amiens

“The main objective is to train the typeface designers of tomorrow. Each session lasts for 16 months from September to February and enrolment is open till July.”

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New illustrated typeface with a joyful look and feel

New illustrated typeface with a joyful look and feel

The typeface SwingKing is the work of the Danish illustrator Erik Sørensen.
It started as writing by hand, but it is not the handwriting of Erik. It is more like an illustration of his handwriting. What we tried to achieve was something improvised in a planed way. That is why we call it an illustrated typeface. See more on theivyfoundry.com

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4 new type design tools from Glyphs as free beta

4 new type design tools from Glyphs as free beta

MergeGlyphs (Compare and merge two Glyphs files), CommitGlyphs (Commit your Glyphs files to a git repository), FontTableViewer (Take a Peek in Your OpenType Fonts), TextPreview (Preview Your Fonts on the Mac)

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House Industries exhibition: A Type of Learning

House Industries exhibition: A Type of Learning

An exhibition by House Industries at The Henry Ford Museum

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Marina Chaccur on calligraphy, lettering and type

Marina Chaccur on calligraphy, lettering and type

David Sudweeks interviews Marina Chaccur on the impossible task of separating lettering from its related disciplines, and how her work has changed since the lettering boom.

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Introducing Source Han Serif, a new open source Pan-CJK typeface

Introducing Source Han Serif, a new open source Pan-CJK typeface

“When we released Source Han Sans in 2014, the news made a huge impact among the millions of people who rely on Pan-CJK typefaces for their day-to-day work. Today we’re delighted to announce the release of its serif counterpart, Source Han Serif.”

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