Tag: Typography
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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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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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The Geometry of Type
A lovely typographic primer by Stephen Coles, with a foreword from Erik Spiekermann.
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Tien-Min Liao’s handmade type
This is a self-initiated typographic experiment that explores the relationships between upper-case and lower-case letters, and also records the transformation between them.
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Blanch font family, free download
Albert Estruch from Barcelona-based studio Atipus got in touch to share a free download of the Blanch font family that was used in their Fruita Blanch identity. “Blanch is a display typeface for the Fruita Blanch brand, a family-run company that, for four generations, has dedicated itself to the cultivation and marketing of sweet fruits.…
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Arcano Type
Graphic designer Giuseppe Salerno of Valencia-based Resistenza spent the past four months producing Arcano Type.