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Torch: Drawing Letters
"What makes you draw letters the way that you do?" That's the question I put to a few type designers at TypeCon this year, in the interest of learning about the intangible forces that inspire them to shape letters in unique ways. -
Type News: Take a Hint
Who's suffering from TypeCon withdrawal? Certainly not the news! There is new type to experience, more on webfonts, and a bunch of type in stereo. -
Type News: Babel and Dingbats
This week: TypeCon 2010, new webfonts and fun with dingbats. -
Type News: Origins
This week we learn where words come from, meet a slew of new typefaces, and crash a party. -
Cure for the Common Webfont, Part 1: Alternatives to Arial (and Helvetica)
Arial gets a lot of guff, and most of it is well-deserved. But whatever you think of its shady origins or shaky design, the fact remains that it was made for the screen, and it’s the only all-purpose, full-family sans serif that is guaranteed to be viewable by 99% of web users. Until recently, that is. -
Type News: Let’s Get Historical
Welcome to a week of lists, a week when even old things are news again. -
Type News: Caslon, Aktiv Grotesk, and Comic Sans, Oh My!
Welcome to the inaugural edition of "Type News," a journey through recent typeface-related news. -
Font Fridays: George Lois tee from Typography Shop
We're back with Font Fridays on Typedia and a special new shirt from Typography Shop.
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Font Fridays: ABCing from Mark Batty Publisher
Welcome back to another Font Friday from Typedia. This week, we've got a unique alphabet book from Mark Batty Publisher.
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A Special Valentine’s Day Font Friday
Happy Font Friday! Typedia is pleased to present a special Valentine's Day Font Friday, with lovely gifts from Typography Shop and Princeton Architectural Press.
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Font Fridays: Business Penmanship from Veer
It's Font Friday at Typedia! Do a good deed and you could win one of a copy of Business Penmanship, designed by Alejandro Paul for Veer.
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Font Fridays: El Vética tees
Happy Font Friday! Do a good deed for Typedia, and you could win one of a pair of El Vética tees from Mule Design.
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Font Fridays: 19th Century American Type, from Oak Knoll Press
Happy Font Friday! This week, we've got a wonderful bit of typographical history for you: Nineteenth-Century American Designers & Engravers of Type from Oak Knoll Press.
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Font Fridays: Lettering and Type, from Princeton Architectural Press
For this week's Font Friday, we're very excited to give away a copy of Lettering & Type from Princeton Architectural Press.
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Font Fridays: Phaeton, from Veer
A big welcome for the return of Typedia's Font Friday giveaways! To kick the year off right, we've got a fabulous font from Veer: the illustrious Phaeton, by Randy Jones and Kevin Cornell.
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Font Fridays: More Alphabet Bags, plus books from Norton, Princeton Architectural, and Mark Batty
It's our last Font Friday of the year, but we're going out with a bang! This week, we have three more Alphabet Bags, plus fabulous books from Norton, Princeton Architectural Press, and Mark Batty Publisher.
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Font Fridays: Alphabet Bags, plus books from Thames&Hudson and Oak Knoll Press
This Friday, we are excited to have two great type-inspired totebags, plus fabulous books from Thames&Hudson and Oak Knoll Press.
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Font Fridays: Adelle
This week we are excited to have another font giveaway from Veer: the lovely and robust slab-serif Adelle.
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Font Fridays: Typekit and The Typographic Desk Reference
Today's special Thanksgiving Font Friday includes a free Typekit Portfolio account and a signed copy of The Typographic Desk Reference from Oak Knoll Press.
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Font Fridays: Ratio
This week we have an excellent font giveaway from the fine folks at psType.
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Font Fridays: Bravissima
This week we have another lovely font giveaway from the friendly folks at Veer.
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Font Fridays: Shapes for Sounds
This week's Font Friday giveaway is a copy of Timothy Donaldson's Shapes for Sounds from Mark Batty Publisher.
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Font Fridays: Six Pounds of Type!
This week, we have a special gift for members of the Typedia community—FontBook from FontShop International.
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Font Fridays: Cordial Bloom and more!
We’re pleased to announce that starting this week Typedia will sponsor regular giveaways to the Typedia community. We’re grateful to all the wonderful people working to make Typedia a success, and this is our way of giving thanks.
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Machine Tags for Type
When learning about type, specimens and showings are essential. But sometimes the true personality of a face isn't revealed until you see it in action. That's why each typeface page on Typedia has a section called "In the Wild" placed prominently at the top of the second column. Here you'll find examples of graphic design using the typeface in question, whether it's on a sign, in a magazine, or part of an illustration. The goal is to shed light on how type really works—by seeing it at work. -
Behind the Typedia Logo Design
This is the deep story of the creation of the Typedia logotype. I had met Jason Santa Maria through our mutual friend and design colleague, Dan Mall. Dan had told me that Jason (at the time, aided by Khoi Vinh) was putting together a major compendium of typographic matter for a website under the name of "Typedia." -
Welcome to Typedia
We're very pleased to take the wrapper off Typedia, a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. We love type, and we have a burning desire to learn as much as possible about typefaces: where they come from, who made them, and why they look the way they do. We want everyone to be able to share in that rich knowledge and enjoy the art and artists of type design.