Type Design
TagThe Google Font Improvement Project
Ever wondered what it would be like to collaborate with the team at Google by enhancing their existing font collection? Type designer Jacques Le Bailly takes us behind the scenes and offers us a glimpse at how this is done.
New font family Ringside = 172 styles by Hoefler & Co.
Designed for diversity instead of homogeneity, Ringside brings to the modern superfamily some of the charming individuality of the potluck sans serif.
Type & Media 2016 finally online
Check the fonts designed by 2016 graduates. TypeMedia is an one year master program held at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in The Netherlands.
Type and Media 16–17
Responsive lettering fits any screen. Check unique typefaces produced by the Type and Media students.
Type Days Ljubljana 2017
31st Tipo Brda winter workshop Type Days 2017 will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia at Vodnikova Domačija Šiška, the house of reading and writing. Application date: 5 Feb 2017.
Tazugane Gothic – a Japanese typeface with the elegance of a crane
The first Japanese typeface from Monotype is a humanist sans serif, designed to work in partnership with Neue Frutiger. Lead Designer: Akira Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Yamada and Ryota Doi. Story by Emma Tucker.
Thesaurus, a typeface with one foot in the past & one foot in the present
Thesaurus is a typeface inspired by the typographic history of the city of Geneva. Thesaurus was designed by Fermín Guerrero. Released by Typotheque.
New typeface – Lisbeth by TypeTogether
Louisa Fröhlich’s Lisbeth is the charming all-italic trailblazer that handles branding and text with internal vividness.
Czech typefaces for television
Over the past nine-plus years, viewers have been able to see original Czech type design right on their screens. A story by Tomáš Brousil and Radek Sidun, Briefcase Type Foundry.
Introducing Source Serif 2.0 by Frank Grießhammer
Version 2.0 of Source Serif is here! The work on this release has been a long time coming, and represents a major step forward. Read the whole story at TypeKit blog.