Typography Weekly

Process of designing a typeface (Di Mare)

Process of designing a typeface (Di Mare)

“The idea of this typeface came to my mind when I was in Rome. It was an amazing journey. I visited museums, walked around the city squinting in the sun, ate delicious italian food, admired ancient architecture. I was especially happy because those were the days when I decided to change my life.”

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Equitan Sans & Slab from Diana Ovezea released at ITF

Equitan Sans & Slab from Diana Ovezea released at ITF

“Together, Equitan Sans and Equitan Slab make up an astounding 28-font super family. The two typefaces serve up industrial-era letterforms, refreshed for a new century.”

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Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016

Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016

The tenth edition since 1984, for Latin and Kanji typeface designs.

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Toshi Omagari on typeface revivals

Toshi Omagari on typeface revivals

“Because every designer’s perfect vision of a typeface varies, all revivals of the same typeface end up different. That’s what makes it personal and interesting.”

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Font Bros sues Hasbro over font licence issue

Font Bros sues Hasbro over font licence issue

“Such disputes are not unusual, but seldom made it into the public eye.”

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How typefaces impact your mood

How typefaces impact your mood

A somewhat simplicistic introduction to the emotional elements conveyed by the visual design of typefaces.

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Monotype introduces a flat rate subscription service

Monotype introduces a flat rate subscription service

“The Monotype Library Subscription gives you full access to fonts from Monotype, Linotype, Ascender, ITC, and Bitstream (over 2,200 font families).”

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Type Design Software Questionnaire from the Alphabettes

Type Design Software Questionnaire from the Alphabettes

“We’re working on a State of the Union for Type Design Software. If you design type, please fill out the form. It shouldn’t take more than four minutes and your individual answers will be kept confidential. Thanks so much in advance!”

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TypeTogether’s Typeface Publishing Incentive Program

TypeTogether’s Typeface Publishing Incentive Program

Now in its 3rd edition, it’s open to all currently enrolled students of typeface design. The winning student will be given guidance and support in developing their career after graduation, through critical, expert-feedback, economic support and a publishing contract with TypeTogether.

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Novecento Carved

Novecento Carved

“Novecento Carved is a minimalist and easy-to-use layered font family.
It must be paired with Novecento Sans, used as base layer.
Each glyph of each style of Novecento Carved (around 18.000) was manually reviewed and adjusted after the first interpolation.”

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Fontspring is now offering demo fonts

Fontspring is now offering demo fonts

“You’ve consistently told us that trying out fonts is absolutely essential for your job, and at the same time terribly cumbersome. We labored with our foundry partners to come up with an amazing solution. Today, we are introducing a FREE new product called Demo Fonts.”

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Pangramme - Student type design exhibition

Pangramme - Student type design exhibition

“We are inviting to participate in an international call for applications for recently drawn, unpublished type designs by students. The selected project will be shown at the gallery of Lorraine Fine Art School in Metz …”

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Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks

Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks

“For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. A lot of them.”

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Silver Buckle Press finds a new home at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

Silver Buckle Press finds a new home at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

“The UW–Madison Libraries launch a partnership with Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum to house and care for the Libraries’ historic Silver Buckle Press and its collection.”

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Academic Publishing On Typography

Academic Publishing On Typography

“For the scholars among you who are looking for peer-reviewed places to publish their research papers, the following publications and journals may publish articles on type and typography related topics, visual communication, etc.”

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