“We like to call it the You wanted it, you got it update. That is because, apart from the usual fixes and performance enhancements, the 2.1 update contains a load of improvements requested by you, the users.”
When creating a website, there’s a mental checklist a designer might run through… is this engaging?, is it easy to understand?, is it on-brand?… but the very first, no-brainer point is, can people read it?
Version 8.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. It includes 41 new emoji characters (including five modifiers for diversity), 5,771 new ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the new Georgian lari currency symbol, and 86 lowercase Cherokee syllables.
“After many years — working across four teams, on three continents, and in five time zones — we are proud to announce that we’ve extended Typekit’s web font service to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts.”
Quora’s Communication Designer Holly Gressley and Director of Design David Cole contacted Commercial Type at the end of 2014 about the possibility of redrawing the logotype. Miguel Reyes and Christian Schwartz worked on the project.
The London Underground runs partly on the success of its signature font, which has long lent it clarity and identity. As its centenary looms, Catherine Nixey tells the curious story of its author. From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, May/June 2015
Video about the New Zealand typeface, created with the help of Klim Type. More info about the project: https://klim.co.nz/blog/pure-pakati-design-information/
