“One of today's most popular typefaces owes its inspiration to radical work done for the signage on British transport a century ago. Johnston Sans changed everything.”
“The official t-shirt of ILoveTypography.com, the world’s most popular fonts & typography blog. Featuring Indie Inline, a script font designed by Maximiliano Sproviero from Lián Types.”
“So you have seen a typeface in use – on a poster, in a magazine, on a website … and you want to know what’s the name of that typeface. Here are 5 useful tips to identify it.”
A method is described for rapidly investigating relative legibility of different typographical features. A paper by Jonathan Dobres, Nadine Chahine, Bryan Reimer, David Gould, Bruce Mehler & Joseph F. Coughlin.
“Our HVD Fonts selection offers you a careful selection from all typographic categories: Sans Serif, Slab Serif, Display, Serif and Script. For only 99 USD/EUR*, you get a font collection that would normally cost 499 USD/EUR.”
Yrsa and Rasa are open-source type families published by Rosetta with generous financial support from Google. The fonts support over 92 languages in Latin script and 2 languages in Gujarati script.
“Horn Please is a documentary that encapsulates various aspects of an age-old folk art form of India — the TRUCK ART, an art form that makes journeys through the dusty highways of India, incredible in more ways than one.”
“Participants of the program will embark on an intensive foundational course in Arabic type design. Using traditional and digital techniques, students will be guided through drawing an individual typeface based on principles that are essential and unique to the Arabic script.”
“In 2014 we presented Paula Mastrangelo's first type family, Laski Slab. Over the last year, Ramiro Espinoza worked to expand the system and today we are proudly introducing Laski Sans …”
“The website of the Musée de l’imprimerie et de la communication graphique (Lyon, France) offers an extremely rich data base of historic printing presses from earliest times to the mid 20th century.”
To promote its new typeface Kakadu, LudwigType designed a browser game of snake using webfonts. Playing the fastest level give a chance to win some fonts.
“During the month of February 2016, Alphabettes contributors opened their minds and hearts to create the Love Letters series. From Rio to Bangalore, Spain to California, we were taken on a world-wide tour of beloved treasures, found objects, personal histories and typographic ephemera.”
Anton Studer: “Every so often, I’m preoccupied by the question, ‘Is what I see also what I get?’ I catch myself thinking that there’s a discrepancy between what I ‘saw’ and the information my eye actually took in.”
