The Empire Strikes Back
David Shields’s book is out! The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog. It is not just a must-have for any wood-type aficionados. The book sets a new typographic history bar.
That was Fontstand’s 2022 conference!
On September 9th and 10th, Fontstand organized its third conference in The Hague. After years of necessary Covid restrictions, many community members were thrilled to gather together in person again.
Kopius
This serif typeface is full of surprises. It looks lively, is pleasantly readable, and its italics are independent in their design and full of verve.
Job Clarendon
This variable design turns its back on a common tendency of adopting Clarendon-style letters to text-typeface proportions. David Jonathan Ross and Bethany Heck returned Clarendon to its more condensed 19th-century roots.
Type feeds technology
This Parisian company is well-known in type circles for technological improvements to the type-design process and its typefaces.
Fonts for Indigenous languages
Typotheque extended eight of its typefaces to support the Canadian Syllabics used to write many of the Ingenious languages in Canada. Along the way, it expanded their Unicode encoding, too.
Fontstand’s “Garamonds”
Fonts inspired by Claude Garamond, Robert Granjon and Jean Jannon are the backdrop to many of the books we read, as well as websites like this one. Just how many typefaces based on the work of French Renaissance punchcutters can you find on Fontstand?
Quality, Community and Collaboration
Max Phillips took some time to answer our questions about the Signal Type Foundry.
Manual of Diacritics
Radek Sidun’s collection of redesigned diacritics for 11 different typeface categories can now be pre-ordered as a printed book.