Typography Weekly

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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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William from Maria Doreuli released at Typotheque

“William, a contemporary interpretation of Caslon, is a truly international font in which English, Dutch and Russian influences come together to create one complete, modern type family.”

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A mysterious key on the Sholes typewriter patent drawing

“Take a look at the leftmost key on the third row of Sholes’ keyboard, as shown in his 1878 patent for “Improvement in type-writing machines”.1 What on earth is that?”

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PF DIN Serif by Panos Vassiliou

This is the first ever release of a true serif companion for the popular DIN typeface. DIN Serif originated in  a custom project for a watchmaking journal which required a modern serif to work in unison and match the inherent simplicity of DIN.

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Creative Characters: Jovica Veljović

“By the time Jovica Veljović released his first font family in 1984, he was already an internationally renowned calligrapher. Back then, he taught at the art academy in Belgrade, the capital both of Serbia and the former Yugoslavia …”

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Yanone on Designing FF DIN Arabic

“Yanone, (shorthand for Jan Gerner), is an exciting type designer, filmmaker, developer, and person. His recent commission led to an interesting exploratory process and resulted in the successful family expansion of one of our most popular and versatile typefaces, FF DIN …”

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Skill by Maximiliano Sproviero released

“After my font Indie I wanted to create something much more wild. Something that splashed the letters with life. To do this, I knew I'd have to break the barrier between analog and digital, so I took my best brush and started to play.”

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Renault Carname font by Production Type

“Renault Carname is a new typeface system for the interior and exterior badges on Renault vehicles, designed to remain visible even when the car is in motion.”

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The First Title-Pages

John Boardley writes about when and how books got their title-pages.

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Digital Lettering: Designing 3D Type and Lettering

“Join designer and illustrator Jeff Rogers for a 70-minute class on designing dimensional type. In this fun and practical class, you'll dive into the essentials of working with typography in your digital illustration work …”

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French printmaking 1890–1905

“Dive into the Parisian print world of the fin de siècle. Discover a period of artistic innovation and decadence, from quiet interiors to the bustling streets of the modern city.” From the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

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Operator from Andy Clymer released at Hoefler&Co.

“A monospace typeface and a monospace-inspired typeface”.

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The Trajan Letter in Russia and America

“On the role of the Trajan letter in the history of Soviet typographic design, and the development of Cyrillic versions of Adobe’s two typefaces, Trajan Pro 3 and Trajan Sans Pro.” by Maxim Zhukov