Fontsmith, the type foundry behind fonts like Hackney and Ingrid, launched FS Industrie, an adaptive type system that features five different widths and seven weights, for a total of more than 70 variants. Founded in 1997 by Jason Smith, Fontsmith,…
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Typography Day Returns To Mumbai With Exhibition, Workshops And More
The technical term “typography” is often interchangeably used with the more common “font”. But before getting into what typography entails, and its all-pervading presence in our life, Dr Ajanta Sen deems it important to situate…
Sabeena Karnik in Typography Jury for ADC 97th Annual Awards
Sabeena Karnik The One Club for Creativity, the world’s foremost non-profit organization celebrating creative excellence in advertising and design, today announced the full juries for Typography, Illustration and Photography in the prestigious ADC 97th Annual Awards. The Typography jury includes Sabeena Karnik,…
How to Create an Artistic Typography Portrait in Photoshop
Makeup is one way to create a superb artistic portrait, but it’s not the only method. You could rely on post-production as well to make something different than everyone else does. In this 15-minute long…
Typography: Terminology You Should Know [Infographic]
Here’s an infographic for all the font geeks out there (or should that be “typeface geeks,” as we recently learned there’s a difference between fonts and typefaces?) Letters are more than just lines and dots, and this infographic by the…
UK professor talks typography in TEDtalk
An antique handwriting in Fayette, Michigan, lives on because of a UK faculty member. Assistant Professor of Art and Studio Design Mia Cinelli is the artist and designer behind “Fayette,” an elegant typeface based on…
Logo-A-Go-Go: 100 Years Of Forbes Typography
A magazine’s logo is its identity, beckoning the reader from the newsstand–or mail pile. In the case of Forbes, it also represents three generations of family stewardship. So what’s in a name? Forbes asked legendary…
The rise of India’s typography community
Meet India’s typography community, as they adapt regional language scripts for the digital age and take their passion mainstream Seven hundred and eighty languages and 400 scripts: that’s the number the People’s Linguistic Survey of…
Typography in virtual reality: the new frontier
These brave new design environments put fresh demands on type designers as well as graphic designers, and raise a thorny yet fascinating tangle of questions about legibility, letterform design, and typeface selection. For a user,…
Type Directors Club Debuts World’s Best Typography Exhibition in New York
Exhibition The World’s Best Typography 2017 Aug 10, 2017 (15 days left) 41 Cooper Square New York, NY United States Design Directory Type Directors Club Manhattan, New York United States phone 212.633.8943 tdc.org (1,215) category…