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This Week in Fonts
A deco style numbers font from Joshua Mayfield, a calligraphic text family by District, a ligature packed display face from Nootype, a contemporary stencil by Atlas Font Foundry, a family of contradictions from Typotheque, a flexible gothic digitized for the first time by Hamilton Wood Type, and a single face with 9 fonts within from [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. This Week in Fonts
TYPO Berlin Goes East
In two days Europe’s biggest annual design conference reaches adulthood when TYPO Berlin celebrates its 18th anniversary. “Touch” opens on Thursday, May 16 at 2 PM with a keynote by the formidable Ken Garland, star of the most recent edition of TYPO London. This year TYPO has taken it upon itself to bring its audience [...]
Canapé—a cosy typeface
Canapé by Sebastian Nagel is the latest release at fonts.info. It is based on the idea of letters with a subtly curved and slightly modulated line. Through this, the typefaces has a warm and friendly, almost haptical appearance which brings some kind of cosiness to your communication with type. Canapé Serif with its 4 fonts [...]
Mota Italic Gallery Unofficially Opens TYPO Berlin With Word Jazz
Celebrate the second anniversary of the Mota Italic Gallery at the per-TYPO Berlin Party and Word Jazz opening night.
Library Subscriptions: The Future of Fonts? Shall We Sing or Cry?
Yesterday, Adobe declared that Creative Cloud is its future. Designers will no longer license desktop copies of Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign and use them “forever” (though that word is obviously limited by each version’s practical lifespan). Instead, they subscribe to a Creative Cloud membership and get access to the apps through an online account. Along [...]
8 Faces Launches New Issue And New Website
Yesterday Elliot Jay Stocks launched the latest issue of his limited edition typography magazine 8 Faces, available in printed format and as a downloadable PDF. The core concept remains unchanged – if you could use just eight typefaces, which would you choose? 8 Faces asks this question?– and many more –?to eight leading designers from the fields of [...]
This Week in Fonts
A no-nonsense sans from Lineto, a layered type system by Latinotype, a charming hand made face from Voltage LTD, delicate and flowing curves courtesy of Typesenses, a contemporary sans by VirusFonts, a classic titling serif from Domahoka, a Swiss inspired sans by Wordshape, and a modern sans from Nootype. Lineto: LL Circular Designed by Laurenz [...]Show More Summary
ScreenFonts: Stoker, Dead Man Down, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Tyler Perry’s Temptation, Wrong
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Making waves with Magasin
I’ve always been fascinated by typefaces based on fluid handwriting, and as an amateur calligrapher of copperplate, I decided to design a display font based on this experience. Origins and background My first approach to this project began with the lettering I designed for BoMo, a graphic design studio, in spring 2011. It’s based on [...]
YouTube Video Hilariously Parodies Vendor/Client Relationship
This afternoon Allison Dhondt – sales and customer relations at FontShop BeNeLux, and responsible for their excellent Twitter account – pointed me to a very witty 2009 YouTube video by Scofield Editorial, Inc.. The Vendor Client relationship (in real world situations) takes all too familiar situations from the daily life of graphic designers, web designers, type designers, [...]
Let’s Meet Typomapp 2.0 — The Typography Knowledge Map
A lot of typographic knowledge is available in printed books and online in Wikipedia, web forums and the like. But you can usually just access it using a certain hierarchy based on topic, history or maybe just the alphabetic order of typographic terms. But what if you are interested in typographic information about a certain [...]
The Capital Sharp S in Use
A while ago I announced on Twitter, that it is now 5 years since the Capital Sharp S was added to the Unicode. I was asked, if it has actually been used somewhere in real world situations. A valid question! A new character shouldn’t just be made to look good in type specimen brochures. So [...]
Bodies Intertwine In Typographic Poses For The Kama Sutra Project
Conceptual alphabets are not easy to get right. Throw in erotic subject matter, and you have yourself a recipe for disaster. Striking the right balance when creating outright explicit illustrated letters so it does not become awkward or vulgar is incredibly hard. And yet Malika Favre managed to do exactly that with her astounding Kama [...]
Kerning, A Promising New Typography Conference In Italy
I was a little disappointed I couldn’t attend the second edition of TYPO San Francisco after speaking there last year, but that doesn’t mean I won’t have my share of conferences before summer. And it starts in just two weeks when I will be talking at Kerning, the first international conference in Italy (and by [...]
TYPO San Francisco 2013 “Contrast” Live Streams Available For Viewing
With over 700 attendees, speakers and volunteers, the second edition of TYPO San Francisco “Contrast” was again a success. If you couldn’t make the conference or are already going through withdrawal, the videos of no less than live streams are still available for viewing by the general public. Furthermore searching the #typo13 hashtag on Twitter [...]
This Week in Fonts
A bright slab serif by Typofonderie, a massive system from Typonine, a text face with flavour and a hardworking family from Rosseta Type, a casual face by HVD Fonts, an expansive family from Lost Type Co-op, a type designer’s typeface by Emigre, a warm and rugged face from Fountain, a geometric slab serif by The [...] Sponsored by H&FJ. This Week in Fonts
Sign Painters Movie Explores Traditional and Contemporary Sign Painting
The official trailer for “Sign Painters”, a documentary by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon.
Socialist TV Typeface Videtur Finally Freed
In the 1980s, the German Democratic Republic’s state television broadcasting service commissioned Axel Bertram to develop a custom typeface. The result was “Videtur,” a remarkably independent serif design that was intended to define the on-screen graphics of East German television for years to come. But by the beginning of the 1990s, the GDR no longer [...]Show More Summary
TYPO SF 2013 “Contrast” Presents Type Track
This year TYPO SF adds a Type Track in the intimate, 100-seat YBCA Screening Room to its schedule.
Skyfall—Urban Calligraphy by Simon Silaidis
Simon Silaidis applied his life’s love of calligraphy in the rural, urban and suburban surroundings of Asia and Europe. You will spot his work in abandoned places, in the streets and in his studio using ink and bamboo pens. His style is a mix of Western, Asian and Arabian calligraphy and his vision of a [...]
