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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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Fe₂O₃ Glyphs

Fe₂O₃ Glyphs

A generative ornamental typeface accompanied by a series of letterpress prints in a mixture of ferrofluid and Pantone ink.

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365typo annual book now available

365typo annual book now available

The 365typo annual book, published in collaboration with Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), features 365 stories by the best writers in the field of typography, visual communication, and type and graphic design from all over the world.

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Type@Cooper West

Type@Cooper West

The Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in partnership with Letterform Archive, offers a post graduate certificate in Typeface Design, public workshops and a lecture series in San Francisco, California.

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Cormorant, an Open Source Garamond in 30 styles

Cormorant, an Open Source Garamond in 30 styles

“Cormorant is a display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage. The design goal of Cormorant was to distill the æsthetic essence of Garamond, unfetter it from the limitations of metal printing, and allow it to bloom into its natural refined form at high definition.”

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The mysterious origins of punctuation

The mysterious origins of punctuation

“Commas, semicolons and question marks are so commonplace it seems as if they were always there – but that’s not the case. Keith Houston explains their history.”

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Google has a new logo

Google has a new logo

“Just a month after unveiling a major restructuring of the company, Google is updating its image, too. The new Google logo is still a wordmark, but it's now using a sans-serif typeface, making it look a lot more modern and playful. ”

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20 Mac Text Editing Shortcuts You Should Start Using

20 Mac Text Editing Shortcuts You Should Start Using

This visual guide makes it easy to understand and learn the Mac shortcuts for text navigation and selection.

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How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

“Thicker ink, fewer smudges, and more strained hands: an Object Lesson.” The Atlantic

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Typographic Patterns In HTML Email Newsletter Design

Typographic Patterns In HTML Email Newsletter Design

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Adobe Drops Fonts, Leaves Users Stranded

Adobe Drops Fonts, Leaves Users Stranded

“At some point in the near past, sometime after InDesign CC was released, Adobe quietly stopped installing almost all the fonts that used to come with the program.”

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Berlin Type School opens

Berlin Type School opens

During the summer of 2016, the Berlin Type School will bring an intensive multi-week international type design program to Germany. Join us in one of the world’s most exciting design capitals to learn how to make your own font.

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Vatican Library Making 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online For Free

Vatican Library Making 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online For Free

The Vatican Apostolic Library is now digitising its valuable ancient religious manuscripts and putting them online via its website, available for the public to view for free, as well as turning to crowdfunding to help it complete its work.

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Typeset.js

Typeset.js

A ty­po­graphic pre-proces­sor for your html which uses zero client-side JavaScript and gives you: Real hang­ing punc­tu­a­tion, Soft hy­phen in­ser­tion, Op­ti­cal mar­gin out­dents, Small-caps con­ver­sion, Punc­tu­a­tion sub­sti­tu­tion, and Space sub­sti­tu­tion.

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Real – Interview with Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois

Real – Interview with Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois

With the publication of Johannes Erler’s Spiekermann monograph Hello I am Erik last year the readers also witnessed the presentation of a new typeface by Erik Spiekermann: Real. Almost one year later, FF Real™ was released as an extended family …

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