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2 sessions, starting from THIS Saturday, to learn the basics of font production / font engineering!
Info & ticket at https://wordsoftype.com/
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Amsterdam Type Foundry, Bristol & Carlton (typefaces by S. H. de Roos and Dick Dooijes), ca. 1929.
See the full specimen and hundreds more in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1589&utm_source=Mastodon
What is the typeface on this iconic album? Reminds me a bit of the MS33558 font used in American military aircraft cockpits. (But it isn’t that.)
Looking closer, I think the album cover might have been even better with the slightly simpler military font. The curve of the R leg looks a bit off in the otherwise very industrial and almost Gorton-like typeface.
**Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**
“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”
https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.
Flashbak · Schönschreibmeister - A Calligraphy Master's Album from the 16th Century - FlashbakThe 24 page paper manuscript is dominated by Middle German blackletter scripts with extravagant embellishment, and a minority of the pages contain ‘less’ ornamental writing in Latin. The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album … Continue reading "Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century"
A versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif with a neutral aesthetic, designed for legibility in both digital and print applications. Available for anyone to use under the SIL Open Font License.
https://nebulasans.com/ #fonts #typefaces #typography #OpenFonts
nebulasans.comNebula SansNebula Sans is the brand typeface for Nebula, available under the SIL Open Font License.
Grrreat news! We've just moved 13 of Tunera's fonts from Gitlab to Codeberg (a git hosting service based in Berlin). That was a lot of work because many specimens were also updated and some font files re-exported. We hope that everything is working correctly!
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#openSource #JoinCodeberg #codeberg #typography #fonts #tuneratypefoundry #migration
I'm definitely a #gorton guy.
NEXT MONTH
Lecture about Cyrillic script, typography and type design, with Maria Doreuli and @krista !!!
And if you can't make it to the live session, no worries! The lecture is recorded, and all attendees will receive a private link to (re)watch it anytime!
And it is followed by their 2-sessions workshop!!!
Tickets and more info at https://wordsoftype.com/
STARTING THIS WEEK
Learn the basics of font production with @rosaliewagner
Her lecture is THIS SATURDAY, so don't miss it! And even if you can't attend to the live session, you can still book your ticket and you'll get to watch the recording!
And, her 2-sessions workshop starts on the next Saturday. If you want to learn and practise with her guidance, THIS IS IT.
Tickets and more info at https://wordsoftype.com/
Who here knows about font files? Can anyone help me out with a glyph question?
I'm thinking of font features that could mess with calculating the width of a string of text.
The most obvious is optical sizing. This changes the width of glyphs at certain font sizes, so a text at font-size:16px might be 100px wide, but that doesn't mean it'll be 200px wide at font-size:32px.
Another could be `rand`, when supported: if you get different glyphs on your virtual canvas than on screen, calculations get borked.
Anything else? 
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Julpik @julpik IG: @julpik_
New #Free #fonts:
Other free fonts: Sephyr, Boundar, Bloonk , Plaztma , Monopik , Nafas
Web: https://behance.net/julpik
#typography #freefont #JulpikArtworks #Julpik
to my Typography Resources:
https://typography.pablolarah.cl
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STARTING NEXT WEEK
Lecture, followed by a 2-sessions workshop about:
Font production, with @rosaliewagner
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the basics of font production!
There is more to fonts than great designs. They also need to work well as exported files, and that requires some prep work, potentially some tidying-up, and checking on their “backstage” to make sure no bugs will happen when you use them.
More info and tickets at
https://wordsoftype.com/
I am sure you wanted to hear David Attenborough say, expectantly, “Bodoni?”, and talk about binding tooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBdhm8aQCPw
Monotype just issued their “Global Font Use and Forecasting Survey Report”. https://www.monotype.com/resources/ebook/global-font-use-forecasting-survey-2024?utm_source=mastodon Unlike previous MyFonts surveys, they engaged an independent market research company. Over 4,777 respondents is a decent sized group!
Monotype.Explore the findings.The 2024 Global Font Use & Forecasting Survey by Monotype and Censuswide provides an in-depth look at current trends and future projections in the font industry
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We are honored to publish Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024, a compendium of specimens spanning forty years of type innovation from the legendary Bay Area foundry. Preview a selection from the book’s 1,200+ pages—and read a foreword from Associate Curator Stephen Coles on the importance of the Emigre archive to the mission of Letterform Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/news/inside-emigre-fonts-type-specimens-1986-2024/?utm_source=Mastodon
Letterform Archive · Inside Emigre Fonts, Type Specimens, 1986–2024With 40 complete type specimens packed into 5 pounds, this compendium documents the output of one of the earliest (and most prolific) digital type foundries. Here’s a peek at the book’s foreword.
Whitney Mallett on That Kylie Minogue x Towa Tei Track
Dinamo TypefacesWhitney Mallett on When Kylie Minogue Was a FontWhitney Mallett dives into the recent history of German Bold Italic (GBI), a 1997 song by Towa Tei's featuring Kylie Minogue, who sang from the…
The Evolution of Classical Chinese Characters and their Pronunciation in Mandarin.
古漢字字形演變及其官話讀音。
https://youtu.be/EbxohNCoJHM?si=M4jpuPvIpvtJ03kO
Having noticed someone inquiring about classical Chinese bronze inscription characters on Facebook, I therefore recorded a video to illustrate them.
適見Facebook有客詢商周金文，吾遂錄像以闡之。
Resolut specimen (typeface by Hans Brünnel), Nebiolo, 1939.
See the complete specimen in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0044&utm_source=Mastodon
More on Resolut from @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32714/resolut
