Designed in collaboration with Commercial Type, the yogurt giant's in-house team develops a new brand typeface—a serif, after a decade of using a geometric sans serif.
Can IBM Plex topple Helvetica?
IBM has high hopes for its new typeface, but can Plex honestly challenge the goliath Helvetica? Its lead designer, Mike Abbink, says it can.
Weekly Roundup: November 25
New fonts from Gerard Unger, Hansje van Halem, Miguel Reyes, and more. Here’s the second week of TYPE’s regular updates on new retail typeface releases, corporate rebrands, and other typographical events.
A big plus for Annecy
Graphéine's branding for the newly formed city of Annecy makes use of the region's history through icon, type, and color.
Five free design books, courtesy of Rationale
Rationale, a San Francisco-area design studio, has released downloadable PDF versions of five books, including several brand standards manuals, the first issue of Dot Zero, and a monograph by Rationale’s founder, Sean Wolcott.
Kickstarter launches two rebrands: one for itself and one for Drip
Massive crowd-funding platform Kickstarter announced two impressive rebranding projects this week. Firstly, Kickstarter updated its own brand; then they made a big splash relaunching Drip, a creative-community platform.
Weekly Roundup: November 18
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.
Adele Type’s fresh look, mythical names, and experimental releases
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.
Reset the history books: Kazakhstan drops Cyrillic for Latin
Kazakhstan has decided to rewrite the Kazakh language in Latin, will all-new spellings due by the end of the year.
Celebrate Futura’s 90th birthday
On Futura's 90th birthday, the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz has collaborated with publisher Laurence King to produce Futura: The Typeface, an impressively deep, broad, and aesthetic tome on the essential font of the future.
Virginia Tech’s new VT
Curves abound in Virginia Tech's new academic logo.
Columbus, Georgia’s new brand uses every font in the book
The city of 250,000 gets a logo as diverse as its citizens.
THE NEXT BIG THING—IN FONTS
We’ve been hearing a lot about variable fonts, or Variations, where many styles are combined into one font file. The big tech companies are implementing it—Google, Adobe, Microsoft and Apple. And there are of course Variations deniers, pushing back on the change. But it’s time for graphic designers to think what it can do.
THE TREASURE OF ST. BRIDE—PART II
Treasure, indeed. With the help of type designer Paul Barnes, we gained access to hidden gems in the basement of St. Bride Library. Here are sharp photographs of some of the most important punches and matrices at the time of the Industrial Revolution. They were saved from extinction by long-time Librarian, James Mosely. Take a look at the business-end of the first slabs and sans serif typefaces.
The future of font sorting
A new web app might mark the first step towards a new, mathematical way to sort and search our fonts.
Ebay completes its transition
ebay's new visual identity marks the end of the online auction giant's quirkiness.
New York’s new Poster House
Start planning your trip—in late 2018, the United States will get its first museum dedicated to posters.
A classic style endures
With a bow to the WPA art program, two poster series celebrate U.S. National Parks.
Easy breezy no more
Covergirl goes in a new direction—a no contrast, geometric direction—with its first major rebranding effort in roughly 60 years.
Tobias Frere-Jones’s specimen collection: Now on postcards
A unique set of fifty postcards are being published, with art taken from Tobias Frere-Jones's personal collection of type specimens.