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I Love Typography T-Shirt

I Love Typography T-Shirt

“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.”

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The 5 Best Tricks to Identify a Font

The 5 Best Tricks to Identify a Font

“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.”

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Utilising psychophysical techniques to investigate the effects of age, typeface design, size and display polarity on glance legibility

Utilising psychophysical techniques to investigate the effects of age, typeface design, size and display polarity on glance legibility

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.

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HvD Font package 80% off at Linotype

HvD Font package 80% off at Linotype

“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.”

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Rosetta releases open source fonts Yrsa & Rasa

Rosetta releases open source fonts Yrsa & Rasa

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.

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Horn Please – Indian Truck Art

Horn Please – Indian Truck Art

“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.”

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Bixa Color

Bixa Color

“Introducing Bixa Color, an OpenType color font for web browsers, from woodtype to webtype.”

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Arabic Type Design Program in Beirut

Arabic Type Design Program in Beirut

“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.”

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ReType releases Laski Sans

ReType releases Laski Sans

“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 …”

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Ex-Machina: a database of printing presses

Ex-Machina: a database of printing presses

“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.”

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A type of snake

A type of snake

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.

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Kickstarter: Lustig Elements Font

Kickstarter: Lustig Elements Font

“A font designed by Alvin Lustig in the 1930s is being revived as wood type and digital fonts w/ the guidance of Elaine Lustig Cohen.”

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The Love Letters

The Love Letters

“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.”

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Math & Optics in Type Design

Math & Optics in Type Design

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.”

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A Veer sad goodbye

A Veer sad goodbye

Once a reseller of highly curated collections of typefaces.
“As part of VCG’s purchase of Corbis and partnership with Getty Images, we are pleased to welcome all Veer customers to iStock by Getty Images. Effective March 30, the Veer business and website will no longer be accessible.”

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