All in Type Release
Typographics, a “design festival for people who use type” launched the website for its fourth-year event; Ralf Herrmann published an essay explaining why not every letter you see comes from a specific font; and Alice Savoie released a free typeface based on the various forms of the animal kingdom. Read these and other stories in this week's typography roundup.
Essays and case studies on variable fonts, a brand new typography conference, new fonts from TypeTogether, Swiss Typefaces, FontFont, and more. Here’s the eleventh week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
New fonts from Frere-Jones Type, Monotype, TYPETR, and more. Here’s the tenth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
A typographic white paper, The Guardian's new masthead, plus new fonts from Lost Type, Black[Foundry], Hoefler & Co., and more. Here’s the ninth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
Coca-Cola controversy usually surrounds ingredients; this week, the conversation turns to type, as the new TCCC Unity polarizes the type world.
New fonts from A2-Type, Black[Foundry], Monotype, Adele Type, and more. Here are the seventh and eighth weeks of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
TypeCon 20 announced, plus new fonts from Commercial Type, Black[Foundry], Letters from Sweden, and more. Here’s the sixth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
Fonstand released for Windows, plus new fonts from Colophon Foundry, TypeTogether, Swiss Typefaces, and more. Here’s the fifth week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
IBM has high hopes for its new typeface, but can Plex honestly challenge the goliath Helvetica? Its lead designer, Mike Abbink, says it can.
New fonts from Victoria Rushton, Julius Hui, Verena Gerlach, Shiva Nallapermura and more. Here’s the first of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
The expanding universe of type design grew a little more with the launch of Adele Type, a foundry that is all about new approaches. Everything, from their web site to their font names, includes a heavy dose of personality.
For a majority of its life, Schriftlabor worked exclusively for corporate clients, but recently, they decided to go retail with a beginning set of four faces. We spoke with founder Rainer Scheichelbauer about the change.
What started as an experiment turned into a multi-lingual display face with a twist.
What happens when a type designer decides to trust his users and let go of expressionism and design details? Kris Sowersby finds out.
“You’re like a party planner. You’re trying to get 26 people to have a nice conversation and not let any one of them get too rowdy.
Far more than just a marketing angle, Jim Ford’s new typeface was inspired by his obsession with the jazz music of Miles Davis.
Inline? Extruded? Shaded? 3-D? Shadow? Rig Shaded gives you all the options.
Matt Willey promotes a font for free speech taken directly from his work at “The New York Times Magazine.”
Can a Mid-Century American sculptor inspire two young, European designers to create a unique typeface? NM Type thinks so.
