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TypeTalk: Supersize My Font Families, Please! TypeTalk: Supersize My Font Families, Please!

Gone are the days when font choices were regular, italic, and bold. Today you can use super families of fonts that contain variations in width, weight, style, and more. Here are some tips for using super families.read more…

Fonts on Friday: Influenced by the ’70s Fonts on Friday: Influenced by the ’70s

Bookmania and Herbieread more…


Fonts on Friday: Crafty Handmade Fonts Fonts on Friday: Crafty Handmade Fonts

Knit, Sown, Grown, Bent, and more!read more…

Type How-To: A River Runs Through It Type How-To: A River Runs Through It

Rivers are eye-catching cracks in text formed by meandering trails of word spaces running from one line to the next. Here’s why they happen, how to avoid them, and how to fix them.
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Type How-to: A River Runs Through It Type How-to: A River Runs Through It

Rivers are eye-catching cracks in text formed by meandering trails of word spaces running from one line to the next. Here’s why they happen, how to avoid them, and how to fix them.
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Font Bureau’s Readability Series Goes Retail Font Bureau’s Readability Series Goes Retail

Previously only available to private clients, now available to publicread more…

Don Quixote, Wilco, Illustrator, Veer — and You Don Quixote, Wilco, Illustrator, Veer — and You

T-shirt design contest with all of the above will benefit non-profit.read more…

Fonts on Friday: Food Fonts Fonts on Friday: Food Fonts

It’s the real thing: cookies, chocolate, candy, pasta, and soup!read more…

Extensis Updates Suitcase Fusion Extensis Updates Suitcase Fusion

Version includes new browsing panelsread more…

TypeTalk: Copy Editing and Proofreading TypeTalk: Copy Editing and Proofreading

Copyediting and proofreading are important to the integrity of the production of any publishing project, yet the two are often confused. What’s the difference between copy editing and proofreading? What does each task entail? And why do they matter?read more…

TypeTalk: Investigating Insouciant TypeTalk: Investigating Insouciant

On the surface, James Montalbano’s Insouciant font is a charming, sprightly typeface that belies the technical rigor required to create it. Here Montalbano explains how this 10-weight family came to be and why upright script faces are challenging to design.read…

Scanning Around With Gene: Typographic Treasure from the Bottom of the Box Scanning Around With Gene: Typographic Treasure from the Bottom of the Box

There they were, at the bottom of a poorly marked box: a series of American Printer magazines from 1946, complete with a five-part primer on how to set good type. In this typographic treasure trove, we learn that many lessons…

Fonts on Friday: Three Indie Typefaces to Add to Your Collection Fonts on Friday: Three Indie Typefaces to Add to Your Collection

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesqueread more…

Fonts on Friday: Three indie typefaces to add to your collection Fonts on Friday: Three indie typefaces to add to your collection

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesqueread more…

A Font "Dating" Game A Font "Dating" Game

Test your skills as a type matchmaker.read more…

Fonts on Friday: Geometry and Line Fonts on Friday: Geometry and Line

Frustro, Lineo, and Moavread more…

Case Study: Designing a New Logo Case Study: Designing a New Logo

What goes into developing a new typographic logo? Where do you start? How do you know what works — and what doesn’t? Follow along as the company Extensis refreshes its branding with a new logotype. read more…

The "Original" Helvetica The "Original" Helvetica

Font Bureau releases Neue Haas Groteskread more…

Fonts on Friday: Decorative Display Type Fonts on Friday: Decorative Display Type

Fancy Antique Display, Metropolis 1920, Muirsideread more…

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