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Font Bureau and partners launch Type Network
Big changes are happening at Font Bureau. The independent type company is refocusing its brand and collaborating with new foundry partners on a major initiative. Together, they have launched Type Network.
Delaney
Richard Lipton took off from an old bicycle logo and hasn’t stopped since, pushing the weights and fine details of a dynamic script to their limits. In a relaxed manner, of course.
Introducing Type Network: type for designers
Type Network is a new model for type design, development, and licensing built in response to the increasingly complex needs of type designers and type users.
Ari Inu Usagi
Occupant Press is excited to announce the publication of Cyrus Highsmith’s new children’s book from Japanese publisher Bunkeidou.
Typographics 2016 June 13-23
This year again, TypeLab—moderated by Petr van Blokland—took place as a lively side-program at Typographics. You were invited to participate. While on the main stage topics can only be formal presentations, at TypeLab they may be put into practice.
Four years ago, Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals was published.
Since then, the English edition has been reprinted once, and other editions were published in Japanese, French, Spanish, and Polish. I have heard comments of all kinds from readers, students, and teachers. And I have had a chance to reflect…
Escrow goes big and small
Cyrus Highsmith designed 44 styles in this new Scotch series. Escrow sets the tone of the front page of The Wall Street Journal, envy of the newspaper industry. “Escrow is the spectacular element holding the whole thing together” Design Director…
Roster
Matthew Carter’s Roster takes the visual tension of square corners in round shapes and makes this square-circle tension its underlying structure.
Marcia: text with the spirit of lettering
Victoria Rushton’s stylish, exuberant, contradictory typeface “is based on nothing, nothing at all,” she says.
Miller Text expansion
Matthew Carter’s Miller is a seminal reinvigoration of the 19th-century Scotch Roman, serving forthright, authoritative body copy and headlines since 1997. All Text and Display weights include small caps, italics, and italic small caps
Tilda. A script typeface by Jessica Hische
Tilda, a script typeface with size-specific styles and extensive OpenType layout features. Tilda Petite is optimized for smaller settings, while the details and proportions of Tilda Grande shine at large sizes.
Lettering is not type
Stephen Coles offers clear definitions for commonly abused terms and elaborates on the differences between type and lettering, a typographer and a type designer, and a typeface and a font.