The Pyte Foundry: Deciphering the past
29LT: The Arabic Script as Springboard for Multiscript Families
The Questa Project: 2009–2014
A Dialogue Between Two Distinct Creative Minds
Indian Type Foundry: Work between the Continents
Type-Ø-Tones: Relentlessly Inventive
Suitcase Type Foundry: We Need New Typefaces!
Typerepublic: Where Every Project Is a Journey
Most of 2019
Dinamo: The No-boundary Foundry
Sandoll: A Lesson in Letters of Resistance
Contrast Foundry: bliss and temperance in type design
Kontour: An Aura of One’s Own
CAST: re-making history
Notable Fontstand releases of 2018
ReType: On the Shaping of Typefaces on Screen and in Steel
Argentinian designer Ramiro Espinoza, founder of ReType, brings his enthusiasm for Dutch design to a practical exploration of how we might guide typography into the future by learning more about its past.
DJR: More Is More
PampaType: Making a Difference
Mário Feliciano: Designing Typefaces to Fuel the Imagination
Typotheque: Always Looking Further
2017: A Year In Review
Type Together: From Collaborative Partnership to Creative Network
An interview with TypeTogether
On Wit, Wonder and What If?
An interview with LettError
The Eclectic Craftsmanship of House Industries
Type is not always about making fonts; there’s a whole wide world to build.
Typofonderie: Striving for the Highest Quality and Value for Designers
Rui Abreu: Drawing the Spaces Between the Lines
Commercial Type: Ping Pong across the Atlantic
2016: A Year In Review
Bold Monday: Offbeat and Steady
Production Type: useful typefaces with an edge
Storm Type Foundry: Digital Baroque
From Journeyman to Master
LudwigType: Typefaces for Contemporary Reading
“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.” — John Cage
Emigre: Time and Time Again
Can you be a part of design’s history and its future as well? Yes.
TPTQ Arabic: Breaking New Common Ground
Multiscript typeface design is thriving with manifold approaches and promising possibilities.
Mark Simonson Studio: Breathing New Life into the Past
There’s no such thing as nostalgia in type design, only possibilities waiting to be explored.
Coppers and Brasses, a Double Fantasy
Two personalities, two approaches, one common vision: fonts you can really have fun with.
(Not) Just Another Foundry
Two personalities, two approaches, one common vision: fonts you can really use.
Typonine: The Delights of Intricacy
Whatever its level of simplicity or complexity, type design is a matter of integrating distinctive elements into an original body of work that opens new possibilities for users.
Type Supply: 0+1=2
What is typeface design in the digital age? More than just drawing lines, it’s giving emotions form.
DSType: Substantial Style
Designing a typeface can mean devising extensive systems for specific media and contexts in which every component must play its part.
Letters from Sweden: Rough Around the Edges
Sometimes, typefaces don’t need to be polished or gentrified to get the job done. They just need to be the way their designer thinks — or feels — they should be.
Process Type Foundry: the Art of Perseverance
Most of the time, type design is slow, tedious work full of details that only a handful of people will care about or even notice. Still, the process can be rewarding, and maturation can be a meaningful watchword.
Urtd: Words That Work (and Play)
Perhaps every type designer can look back on a key moment (or series of key moments) that marks the decision to pursue this craft and trade.
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