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Do Gender-Neutral Pronouns Need Their Own Glyphs?

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…

Type Tuesday

A Font Inspired by Egyptian Streets That Addresses a Problem for Arabic Designers

Name: Felfel Designer: Abdo Mohamed Foundry: Boharat Release Date: Initially 2021, but the font is still in progress Back Story: Independent type…

Type Tuesday

Silvana is a Beautiful New Font Where a “Mistake Is Turned Into a Design Detail”

Name: Silvana  Designer: Siri Lee Lindskrog of Formal Settings Foundry: Blaze Type Release Date: September 13 2022 Back Story:  Siri…

Type Tuesday

More Than Just a “Sexy Specimen,” Good Girl 2.0 Still Isn’t Afraid to Take Up Space

Name: Good Girl Designer: Marion Bisserier Foundry: Type Department Release Date: July 2022 Back Story: We don’t often run ‘sequels’…

Typography

Here’s a Thought: What if Letterforms Had More Serifs?

Westenwind, a new font designed by Olga Umpeleva at the KABK TypeMedia master program in the Netherlands, grew from a…

Typography

Meet Ange Degheest, Pioneering 20th-Century Female Type Designer

“Ange Degheest’s story is remarkable and a perfect illustration of the technical odyssey that took place throughout the twentieth century.”…

Type Tuesday

“An Unconventional Scrawl” of a Font, Designed to Look as If It Were Drawn With Feet

Name: Pardon 4×4 Designer: Martin Aleith Foundry: PFA Typefaces Release Date: April 2022 Back Story: Berlin-based digital type foundry PFA…

Type Tuesday

Aureum Marries Victorian Ornamentation With the Organic Tendrils of Houseplants

Name: Aureum Designer: Anna Sing Foundry: Greenhouse Type Release date: May 2021  Back Story: Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary designer Anna Sing started…

Design History 101

In the ’70s, Kamal Shedge’s Lettering Became an Indispensable Part of Life and Culture in India

If you lived in the state of Maharashtra in India during the ’70s and ’80s, you probably had the Kalnirnay…

Type Tuesday

Camera is Inspired by the Typographic Quirks of ’60s and ’70s TV Fonts — and “Cheese Holes”

Name: Camera Designers: Team Dinamo (Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, Robert Janes, Fabiola Mejía) with Sascha Bente Foundry: Dinamo Release date:…

Typography

Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…

Type Tuesday

Timezone Is a Workhorse of a Font Inspired by the Heyday of Digital Type Design

Name: Timezone Designers: Elias Hanzer and Lucas Liccini Foundry: Hanzer Liccini Release Date: November 2021 Back Story: Berlin-based graphic design studio…

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Typography

Do Gender-Neutral Pronouns Need Their Own Glyphs?

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…

Type Tuesday

A Font Inspired by Egyptian Streets That Addresses a Problem for Arabic Designers

Name: Felfel Designer: Abdo Mohamed Foundry: Boharat Release Date: Initially 2021, but the font is still in progress Back Story: Independent type…

Type Tuesday

Silvana is a Beautiful New Font Where a “Mistake Is Turned Into a Design Detail”

Name: Silvana  Designer: Siri Lee Lindskrog of Formal Settings Foundry: Blaze Type Release Date: September 13 2022 Back Story:  Siri…

Type Tuesday

More Than Just a “Sexy Specimen,” Good Girl 2.0 Still Isn’t Afraid to Take Up Space

Name: Good Girl Designer: Marion Bisserier Foundry: Type Department Release Date: July 2022 Back Story: We don’t often run ‘sequels’…

Typography

Here’s a Thought: What if Letterforms Had More Serifs?

Westenwind, a new font designed by Olga Umpeleva at the KABK TypeMedia master program in the Netherlands, grew from a…

Typography

Meet Ange Degheest, Pioneering 20th-Century Female Type Designer

“Ange Degheest’s story is remarkable and a perfect illustration of the technical odyssey that took place throughout the twentieth century.”…

Type Tuesday

“An Unconventional Scrawl” of a Font, Designed to Look as If It Were Drawn With Feet

Name: Pardon 4×4 Designer: Martin Aleith Foundry: PFA Typefaces Release Date: April 2022 Back Story: Berlin-based digital type foundry PFA…

Type Tuesday

Aureum Marries Victorian Ornamentation With the Organic Tendrils of Houseplants

Name: Aureum Designer: Anna Sing Foundry: Greenhouse Type Release date: May 2021  Back Story: Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary designer Anna Sing started…

Design History 101

In the ’70s, Kamal Shedge’s Lettering Became an Indispensable Part of Life and Culture in India

If you lived in the state of Maharashtra in India during the ’70s and ’80s, you probably had the Kalnirnay…

Type Tuesday

Camera is Inspired by the Typographic Quirks of ’60s and ’70s TV Fonts — and “Cheese Holes”

Name: Camera Designers: Team Dinamo (Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, Robert Janes, Fabiola Mejía) with Sascha Bente Foundry: Dinamo Release date:…

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