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Anyone interested and/or involved in Web type can join the new WebFonts Working Group, managed by the nonprofit World Wide Web Consortium.read more
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Expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean.read more
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House Industries’ new family, Eames Century Modern, is a typographic workhorse with unparalleled practical elegance minted in the spirit of Charles and Ray Eames. Refined curves join a symphony of illustrative elements to complement layouts without overpowering them. With 16 serif fonts, two stencil cuts, four number sets and countless…
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The ADC Young Guns 8 competition is the industry’s only international portfolio-based awards program for young creatives. You can submit entries until May 12, 2010.read more
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Veer is selling stainless steel ampersands you can wear as cufflinks or as covers for any button.read more
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P22’s new releases are two new typefaces by Terry Wudenbachs for IHOF,
based on designs from the Nebiolo Type Foundry.read more
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Called “Plugged-in,” these apps will enhance the font capabilities of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.read more
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Veer’s new Typographic Mobile is a find for font lovers everywhere.read more
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All proceeds from the sale of the $20 font “Coming Together” go to Doctors Without Borders to help with the relief efforts in Haiti. Nearly 400 designers contributed to the font, which consists entirely of ampersands.read more
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Go beyond the same old default fonts. FontShop International is releasing more than 30 of the most successful FontFont families as Web FontFonts, including FF DIN, FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Kievit.read more
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Swissmaker is an iPhone app that lets you create “Swiss design” posters: Helvetica characters (naturally) on a plain background with lots of white space.read more
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Version 4 adds font-usage tracking, live backup, automatic failover server access, Kerberos single-sign-on support, and directory-services enhancements. It’s priced at $1,695. read more
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LAIKA is an experimental interactive typeface. See it in action!read more
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Veenix Technologies’s TypeBook Creator 2.4 features an innovative and colorful new approach to font organization that sorts fonts by energy and ranks them using an associative color. read more
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The @font-face rule is the secret sauce of modern Web typography. You’ll never be stuck with that limited set of “Web safe” fonts again! In part 1, you’ll learn how to implement @font-face easily using Web font hosting services. read more
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New FontExplorer X Pro and Server releases feature expanded capabilities and improved ease of use.read more
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Sometimes automatic is very, very good. But sometimes it’s bad news. For the typographically aware, automatic leading is a pain in the neck. Here’s what you can do about it.read more
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Zuzana Licko designed Emigre’s newest typeface, Mr Eaves XL Sans.read more
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Show off your typographic know-how by setting phone numbers perfectly. Small details can make a difference!read more
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This vinyl graphic, which can stick to walls and other surfaces, tells everyone where you stand.read more
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Type a text message on an iPhone to produce a graphic representation of the message that you can share digitally.read more
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Whether you need a font that’s suave and stylish, hip and happening, or simply mind-bending, these new releases are worth a look.read more
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Download and enjoy 26 illustrated initials.read more
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Love is in the air, and soon it will be on your monitor. Just download these free love-themed fonts, photos, Photoshop brushes, and color palettes and patterns.read more
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What typeface, that is. Answer the doctor’s questions and all will be revealed.read more
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Catch up on recent trends by surveying the ten best-selling fonts of the past year on MyFonts.com. Do you have any of them?read more
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The Vintage Ad Browser is a Web site with more than 120,000 ads organized into 53 categories.read more
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Because we all need a little weirdness in our lives.read more
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The JPG and GIF image file formats have their particular strengths, and both are common on the Web. So how do you decide which to use when your images contain type?read more
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The Web site called “typo/graphic posters” includes hundreds of poster examples to study.read more