Category: Typography
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The Typography Idea Book
Steven Heller and Gail Anderson have released The Typography Idea Book, geared toward helping you evolve different typographic characters or styles. “What this book is not is a tutorial in typographic basics — kerning, spacing, selecting, and so on. There are many excellent existing volumes that will give you that essential knowledge. Our intention here…
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Fontself turns your type drawings into a font
Turn your type drawings into a font using Fontself — software extensions for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Adrian Frutiger, 1928-2015
Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger died on September 12th, 2015, after a lifetime of creating some of the most useful and highly regarded typefaces in the world. Photo by Henk Gianotten. With a client list featuring the likes of IBM, Air France, and the Swiss Post Office, Frutiger’s typefaces include Univers, Avenir, and the self-named…
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The Art of Hermann Zapf
Type designer and calligrapher Hermann Zapf died on Thursday 4th June 2015 at his home in Darmstadt, Germany. He was 96.
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Fontstand launches
Fontstand is a Mac OS X app that allows you to try fonts for free or rent them by the month for desktop use.
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Typefaces for people with dyslexia
When they’re reading, people with dyslexia often unconsciously switch, rotate, and mirror letters in their minds. Traditional typefaces make this worse, because they base some letter designs on others, inadvertently creating “twin letters” for people with dyslexia.
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Homelessfonts
Homelessfonts is an initiative by Barcelona-based Arrels Foundation that consists of creating a collection of typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people.
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Typeface combinations used in design books
The authors of the following books work with type for a living, and although they weren’t all responsible for their book designs, I was intrigued to know what typeface combinations were chosen to represent their words. The comparative images that follow show the mid-weight members of the respective type families, but it should be noted…
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The Geometry of Type
A lovely typographic primer by Stephen Coles, with a foreword from Erik Spiekermann.