“I was always producing ideas for typefaces, I wasn’t finishing them off. I have stopped full-time teaching now, and although I occasionally get asked to visit universities to do lectures, workshops, performances and suchlike, most of my time is spent tending the lettershapes.”
“FontCreator for Windows has been downloaded over 5 million times since 1997. After years of requests from Mac users, we are excited to announce that this popular font editor is now finally available for macOS.“
The latest issue of Footnotes was released this summer. La Police — the publisher — launched a new website where you can purchase back issues as well as a subscription for 3 issues (highly recommended to support this independent publication). Under Stories, you’ll find a selection of online articles from out-of-print issues, free access.
Incremental transfer allows web clients to load only the portions of the font they actually need which speeds up font loads and reduces data transfer needed to load the fonts.
Discover how a pioneering company called The Monotype Corporation made the printed word far easier to produce by mechanising the process of casting and preparing metal type for printing.
Explore the latest updates to SF Symbols, Apple’s library of iconography designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco, the system font for all Apple platforms
You’re now able to use variable fonts in all Affinity apps. In addition, the typography dialog was converted from a pop-up into a panel so you can easily dock it.
In December the type community was deeply saddened by the early passing of Jan Middendorp. On this April 9th – Jan’s birthday – we share an unpublished talk of him from 2015 ATypI São Paulo.
