April 2016
An interview with Neville Brody by Design Week
speaks to Neville Brody about the necessity of risk-taking in design, balancing work with big and small clients, and why design shouldn’t be “precious”. (more…)
Italics Examined by Jonathan Hoefler
FS Untitled – new typeface from Fontsmith
FS Untitled was made for screens. Its shapes and proportions, x-height and cap height were modelled around the pixel grid. So there are no angles in the A, V and W, just gently curving strokes that fit, not fight, with the pixels.
Manu, a smart handwriting font by Typotheque
Manu, a sophisticated handwriting font written with two pens, in two speeds, supporting Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts.
New website of the decodeunicode project
See all 109,242 typographical characters from the Unicode 6.0 – even if you haven’t the matching font on your computer. (more…)
№ ⸮ ‽ ℔ – or, a cavalcade of characters
Keith Houston (Shady Characters) writes about rare characters included in the Monokrom’s Satyr typeface, as designed by Sindre Bremnes. (more…)
New font – Fabrikat by Christoph Koeberlin
The Sans Serif family Fabrikat is published by HVD Fonts and consists of seven weights plus matching italics. Fabrikat’s geometric design is based on German 20th century engineers’ typefaces and has a plain and precise appearance. (more…)
Report from U Symposium 2016, Singapore
A couple of weeks ago the second U Symposium took place in Singapore, focused on independent publishing. A report by Jeremy Leslie.
Alphabettes launched the Mentorship Program
Volunteers from Alphabettes will offer informal help to anyone who is looking for career, industry or educational guidance by professionals in the fields of type, typography, or the lettering arts.
Find out how creativity and business work together
The tickets for By Design conference 2016 are sold out. But stay tuned and follow the new By Design Magazine. (more…)