Typography Weekly

Ted Harrison retires; Thomas Phinney now FontLab President

Ted Harrison retires; Thomas Phinney now FontLab President

FontLab announces the retire­ment of co-​​founder and cor­po­rate busi­ness leader Theodore (Ted) Harrison. Harrison will con­tinue as Chair­man, but has stepped down from most day-​​to-​​day oper­a­tions.

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Typodarium 2016

Typodarium 2016

This calendar presents 366 fonts by 223 designers. It was created by Lars Harmsen & Raban Ruddigkeit and is published by the German typography publisher “Hermann Schmidt Verlag Mainz”.

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Musta

Musta

I am Musta – a modular typeface – and would like to invite you to experimant and play with me, test the limits of readability and go beyond.

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Underware font Tripper as physical stencil set

Underware font Tripper as physical stencil set

“As a true stencil typeface, Tripper should not only live as a digital font on your computer, but also as physical stencils. This set contains A-Z and 0-9 in a nice bold size (85 mm).”

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TypeAmsterdam 2015

TypeAmsterdam 2015

TypeAmsterdam is an event organized in cooperation of “Bijzondere Collecties” (Special Collections) of the University of Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. The talks will be held in English.

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New: Miller Text from Font Bureau

New: Miller Text from Font Bureau

“Matthew Carter’s Miller is a seminal reinvigoration of the 19th-century Scotch Roman, serving forthright, authoritative body copy and headlines since 1997. Today, in parallel with Font Bureau, we complete the Miller series on Webtype with Miller Text …”

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Type Foundries Today & the Typographica Census

Type Foundries Today & the Typographica Census

Acting as a regular census of type foundries, and a status report on the industry at large. Based on a master thesis by Ruxandra Duru and now continued on typographica.org.

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2015 Reading Typefaces

2015 Reading Typefaces

The website presenting the 2015 MATD class typefaces is now online.

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Moriston. A sans-serif typeface with stroke contrast

Moriston. A sans-serif typeface with stroke contrast

Moriston is a new stressed sans-serif grotesque available in 6 weights, with support for over 200 languages and a variety of additional number styles. Designed by Riley Cran, and available from the Lost Type Co-op.

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Kickstarter: P22 Blox

Kickstarter: P22 Blox

“P22 Blox is a modular letterpress printing block system designed to create poster lettering or abstract patterns.”

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New alphabet discovered in Georgia

New alphabet discovered in Georgia

“At a temple site in the Republic of Georgia, letters carved in stone could change the way we see the development of writing.” National Geographic

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Global Graphics acquires German foundry URW++

Global Graphics acquires German foundry URW++

“ Global Graphics SE (Euronext: GLOG) announces today that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of font manufacturer URW++ Design & Development GmbH ("URW") located in Hamburg, Germany.”

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Making Matrices

Making Matrices

“A recent visit to the Gerstenberg type foundry let me finally wrap my head around the different methods of making matrices for foundry type, and how to distinguish them.” By Indra Kupferschmid

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R.I.P. Adrian Frutiger

R.I.P. Adrian Frutiger

The internationally renowned Bernese designer passed away on September 10 in Bern at the age of 87.

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Typewood

Typewood

Typewood, by Novo Typo
The Declaration of Deconstructed Typography- Novo Typo’s Bixa, a digital multi-colored font designed for the web, leaves the computer and transforms into an analogue wooden typeface. Exposition at the Graphic Design Festival Breda - NL - from 26 sept / 25 oct. 2015.

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