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Same Bold Stories?

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Published: August 27, 2024 08:20

Type Design by Women and Queers in the 20th and 21st Centuries: An exhibition running at the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main in Germany through November 24th.

Japan’s last generation of sign painters

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Published: August 20, 2024 07:30

In late 2023, I had the opportunity to visit two wonderful sign painters, Kenji Itakura and Shu Kanbayashi, at Kenji's workshop in Osaka. Kenji and Shu, both in their late fifties, are among the few remaining sign painters in Japan who are considered…

Superior Type: Searching for the perfect curve

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Published: July 23, 2024 05:35

Superior Type’s lead designer Vojtěch Říha reveals his main sources of inspiration, discusses his collaborations with other Czech type designers, and shares some of the foundry’s plans.

TypeMates: No hype, just type

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Published: June 24, 2024 05:05

This foundry creates functional superfamilies, raises awareness of OpenType features, and knows that it’s better to work together.

We make your life better! Here is how

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Published: June 12, 2024 12:25

Fontstand may be a familiar app. After all, it has been around since 2015. But there are still some less documented ways to use the platform that can make your life as a designer easier. We decided to make a list of our favorite hacks and some of the newer…

Notes from the Fontstand event in Milan

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Published: June 6, 2024 13:20

We teamed up with the Biennale Internazionale Milano to put on a unique typography event.

Paul Geumho Seok (1955–2024)

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Published: May 24, 2024 07:15

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Paul Geumho Seok, the founder and chairman of the Korean type foundry Sandoll.

Non-user-centric web spaces for marginalised users

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Published: May 17, 2024 11:20

Yehwan Song’s work ripples through our collective imagination bringing experiences of a digital word that appears alive. Alimenting our ideas of a humanised mediated space touch and interaction resolve in utopian situations, or refuse our input and produce…

Talking about history: Graphisme en France no. 29

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Published: May 16, 2024 07:30

When Marsha Emanuel, then head of Graphic design at the Centre National d’Arts Plastiques (CNAP), launched Graphisme en France in 1994, she conceived it as an annual calendar of events around graphic design, a booklet whose purpose was to “help weave the…

Aeroplan

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Published: April 30, 2024 13:25

This typeface is a contemporary serif family that subtly references a lesser-known chapter in typographic history. But those who select it will surely do so because of the peculiar connecting strokes in Aeroplan’s italics – as in the “a” and “n” above.…