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.
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”.
“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).”
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.
“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 …”
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.
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.
“ 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.”
“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
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.