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• Type News: Beyond Good and eval()

  • January 28, 2012
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  This week, we plead guilty to aiding and abetting something huge in stealing all your free time.

• Type News: Soup for You

  • January 21, 2012
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  What could be better on a Saturday? (OK, a Saturday in the northern hemisphere.)

• Type News: Open Emigretion

  • January 14, 2012
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  The year is young, and there's plenty of big news already.

• Type News: Fundamentum

  • January 7, 2012
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  It's a new year, and we're kicking it off with a ton of neat news and new type.

• Type News: Taut Elf

  • December 31, 2011
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  Type News is off this week. Have a happy New Year!

• Type News: Unicornucopia

  • December 24, 2011
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  It's that time of year again, when sugar plums spin their dreidels.

• Type News: The Importance of Being

  • December 17, 2011
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  A dusting of news and new type await you this mid-December morning.

• Type News: Delta Delta Delta

  • December 10, 2011
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  Let us help you through this week's news and new type.

• Type News: Quid Pro Go

  • December 3, 2011
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  We're piling on the gifts this week.

• Type News: Ayran

  • November 26, 2011
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  O tryptophan, o tryptophan! How mellowing your impact!

• Type News: Zapfed

  • November 19, 2011
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  November is running along full-tilt. Let's try to keep up!

• Type News: Ubi nunc sunt?

  • November 12, 2011
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  Welcome to a very special "Where are they now?" edition!

• Type News: Got Route?

  • November 5, 2011
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  You'll get your kicks; so will we.

• Type News: What Mr. Kurtz Said

  • October 29, 2011
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  Several treats and a few terrors await you.

• Type News: Base!

  • October 22, 2011
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  Welcome to issue 64, now on Saturdays.

• Type News: Rolled

  • October 15, 2011
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  We're circumnavigate the globe to bring you news and new type.

• Type News: .tc-brew

  • October 7, 2011
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  What a week! There were a couple of huge announcements. And we raise a glass to Steve Jobs.

• Type News: Manicules & Pedicules

  • October 1, 2011
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  Rabbit rabbit!

• Type News: Adomnánable

  • September 23, 2011
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  It's Friday!

• Type News: Talar þú íslensku?

  • September 16, 2011
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  Halló! This week's news is epic, so we're bringing it to you in skaldic verse.

• Type News: *ologies

  • September 9, 2011
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  We've been studying hard (or hardly studying, ha-ha).

• Type News: Blatzletter

  • September 2, 2011
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  We send the summer out in style!

• Type News: Eating Our Own Dog Food

  • August 26, 2011
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  Hungry much? Let's dig in to this week's news and new type.

• Type News: Cave Canem

  • August 19, 2011
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  Proceed with caution: grotesque pirates, type thieves, the news, and other scoundrels await you!

• Type News: Whippet Good

  • August 12, 2011
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  It's not too late!

• Type News: Mr. President

  • August 5, 2011
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  It's hot, it's August. Let's chill with this week's news and new type!

• Type News: Year One

  • July 29, 2011
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  Tomorrow's our birthday! Let's celebrate with another big pile of news and new type.

• Type News: Book ’Em, Danno!

  • July 22, 2011
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  A steamy Friday calls for cooling down with this week's news and new type.

• Type News: The L Word

  • July 15, 2011
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  Help us celebrate the fiftieth edition of the Type News!

• Type News: Kerning Man

  • July 8, 2011
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  Live, from TypeCon. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

• Type News, Eh?

  • July 1, 2011
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  Happy Canada Day! Get yourself some poutine and settle in for this week's news and new type.

• Type News: Wish You Were Here

  • June 24, 2011
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  We welcome the solstice, news from far and wide, plus a pile of shiny new faces.

• Type News: Quiet Riot

  • June 17, 2011
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  It's a light week for news, but another weighty week for new type. Let's get right to it!

• Type News: 101

  • June 11, 2011
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  No time for an intro: this week is huge!

• Type News: Futuropolis

  • June 3, 2011
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  This week, we go big on type and visit the future.

• Type News: Memento

  • May 27, 2011
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  History, awards, new type, and a metric ton of news await you. Proceed with caution!

• Type News: Lenny Bruce Is Not Afraid

  • May 20, 2011
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  This week we bring you beginnings and resurrections.

• Type News: O Fortuna

  • May 13, 2011
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  Watch where you step!

• Type News: Mega May

  • May 6, 2011
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  May is here, and with it comes a flowering of news and some spectacular new type.

• Type News: Carriage Return

  • April 29, 2011
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  This week we share the spotlight with NASA's last space shuttle mission. Apparently there's a wedding today, too.

• Type News: But Tell It Slant

  • April 22, 2011
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  We tell all the truth. Well, some of it, anyway.

• Type News: Command-T

  • April 15, 2011
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  It's time to invoke this week's new type -- and the news.

• Type News: Bottle-Arsed

  • April 8, 2011
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  This week is a bit light on the news but packed with new type.

• Type News: Thanks for All the Fish

  • April 1, 2011
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  Say goodbye to what you thought you knew (and hello to the news).

• Type News: —

  • March 25, 2011
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  The em dash: set it free or keep it close? Grab a cup of T as we bring you the answer, plus new type and the rest of the news.

• Type News: Madness

  • March 18, 2011
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  Pandemonium! We have a load new type and enough news to fill a bracket or two.

• Type News: Pied Piper

  • March 11, 2011
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  Lovely print design, webfonts, interviews, and plenty of other news greets us this week. We won't lead you astray!

• Type News: Special Characters

  • March 4, 2011
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  This week we catch up with some leading figures in the world of type design, encounter new type, wind our way through a labyrinth of news, and bid farewell to a great designer and teacher.

• Type News: Future Vintage

  • February 26, 2011
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  As usual, it was a busy seven days in the world of typography.

• Type News: Shoulder Check

  • February 18, 2011
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  Let’s jog our collective memory with a nod to an old friend, a handful of fresh faces, and some titillating typographics.

• Type News: Freebruary

  • February 11, 2011
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  Time flies; we're almost half-way through February. We don't buy you fleurons, but we'll still bring you the news, new type, and other type-related arcana.

• Type News: Hwæt-Out

  • February 4, 2011
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  Bring your shovel, a front passed through and unleashed something more than a flurry of activity this week.

• Type News: MoMA Said Knock You Out

  • January 28, 2011
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  Don't call it a comeback, Helvetica's been there for years.

• Type News: With or Without

  • January 21, 2011
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  This week brings us a slew of new type, some peculiar research, and plenty of news.

• Type News: Make the Text Bigger

  • January 14, 2011
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  This year has already gone past eleven. We have a veritable riot of news and new type.

• Type News: Janus and Moxie

  • January 7, 2011
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  Welcome to the first Type News of 2011.

• Type News: Good-Bye, 2010

  • December 31, 2010
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  Type News is taking the week off. Have a happy New Year, everyone!

• Type News: Happy Birthday, Max!

  • December 24, 2010
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  Pour yourself some nog, put on your Santa hat, and kick back for the news!

• Type News: Tic-Tac-Octothorpe

  • December 17, 2010
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  We have an abundance of new type and a goodly amount of news about characters of all sorts.

• Type News: Corporate Ligature

  • December 10, 2010
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  This week's news includes a major corporate purchase, more on webfonts, and new type.

• Cure for the Common Webfont, Part 2: Alternatives to Georgia

  • December 6, 2010
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  For nearly fifteen years, if you wanted to set a paragraph of web text in a serif typeface, the only truly readable option was Georgia.

• Type News: Cold Gray

  • December 3, 2010
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  As winter winds sweep across the plains, let us warm ourselves with thoughts of webfonts, news, and bold new type!

• Type News: Fraktur Friday

  • November 26, 2010
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  This week we have more new type, a few savory pieces of news, and a sampling of potential holiday gifts for those of you willing to brave some online stores.

• Type News: Help!

  • November 19, 2010
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  An action-packed week in the type world: News galore, and eight new typefaces!

• Type News: Cornucopian

  • November 12, 2010
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  This week we add more monospace to the mix, cover a couple of classics gone pro, investigate an Arabic addition, and trot out tidbits from tech to tweak.

• Type News: Now in Mono

  • November 5, 2010
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  This week: an old stalwart gets an addition to the family, and some distinctive faces make themselves heard.

• Torch: Practice Makes Purpose

  • November 2, 2010
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  Let us focus on the value of our craft, and help our readers to share this value. Let us make such wonderful native experiences that our readers begin to consciously avoid mechanisms of design homogenization and deterioration. Let us practice typography worth experiencing. And let us begin by choosing typefaces.

• Type News: Make Your Sanity Check

  • October 29, 2010
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  It’s no “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,” but we have spooky, scary things in store this week after we bring you new type and the rest of the news.

• Type News: Light Reading

  • October 22, 2010
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  This feels like a lighter week for news in the world of type, but it isn't without event. We have film, prose, and webfonts to cover.

• Type News: Attention to Detail

  • October 15, 2010
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  This week we find type designers laboring over the small stuff, learn more about webfonts, and encounter new type.

• Type News: From Street to Web

  • October 8, 2010
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  This week: new type, new foundries, and a (ginned-up) controversy.

• Type News: Genius

  • October 1, 2010
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  This week, we get right to the point: new type! (Well, almost to the point.)

• Q & A: Mark Simonson

  • September 28, 2010
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  Grant Hutchinson talks with Mark Simonson about serial obsessions, the pains of kerning, and tools of the trade.

• Type News: Memory and Machines

  • September 24, 2010
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  It's time to reminisce over past events, observe typeface design's past and future, and celebrate new type!

• Type News: Choosy

  • September 17, 2010
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  This week: new fonts, exciting news, and a moment of silence.

• Type News: Rewarding Labor

  • September 10, 2010
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  This week: the benefits of hard work. There's new type, too!

• Type News: Past, Present, Quirky

  • September 3, 2010
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  Type designers, historians, and connoisseurs have been busy this week.

• Torch: Drawing Letters

  • August 31, 2010
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  "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

  • August 27, 2010
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  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

  • August 20, 2010
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  This week: TypeCon 2010, new webfonts and fun with dingbats.

• Type News: Origins

  • August 13, 2010
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  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)

  • August 10, 2010
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  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

  • August 6, 2010
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  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!

  • July 30, 2010
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  Welcome to the inaugural edition of "Type News," a journey through recent typeface-related news.

• Font Fridays: George Lois tee from Typography Shop

  • April 2, 2010
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  We're back with Font Fridays on Typedia and a special new shirt from Typography Shop.

• Font Fridays: ABCing from Mark Batty Publisher

  • February 26, 2010
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  Welcome back to another Font Friday from Typedia. This week, we've got a unique alphabet book from Mark Batty Publisher.

• A Special Valentine’s Day Font Friday

  • February 12, 2010
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  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.

• Font Fridays: Business Penmanship from Veer

  • February 5, 2010
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  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.

• Font Fridays: El Vética tees

  • January 29, 2010
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  Happy Font Friday! Do a good deed for Typedia, and you could win one of a pair of El Vética tees from Mule Design.

• Font Fridays: 19th Century American Type, from Oak Knoll Press

  • January 22, 2010
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  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.

• Font Fridays: Lettering and Type, from Princeton Architectural Press

  • January 15, 2010
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  For this week's Font Friday, we're very excited to give away a copy of Lettering & Type from Princeton Architectural Press.

• Font Fridays: Phaeton, from Veer

  • January 8, 2010
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  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.

• Font Fridays: More Alphabet Bags, plus books from Norton, Princeton Architectural, and Mark Batty

  • December 18, 2009
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  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.

• Font Fridays: Alphabet Bags, plus books from Thames&Hudson and Oak Knoll Press

  • December 11, 2009
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  This Friday, we are excited to have two great type-inspired totebags, plus fabulous books from Thames&Hudson and Oak Knoll Press.

• Font Fridays: Adelle

  • December 4, 2009
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  This week we are excited to have another font giveaway from Veer: the lovely and robust slab-serif Adelle.

• Font Fridays: Typekit and The Typographic Desk Reference

  • November 20, 2009
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  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.

• Font Fridays: Ratio

  • November 13, 2009
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  This week we have an excellent font giveaway from the fine folks at psType.

• Font Fridays: Bravissima

  • November 6, 2009
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  This week we have another lovely font giveaway from the friendly folks at Veer.

• Font Fridays: Shapes for Sounds

  • October 30, 2009
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  This week's Font Friday giveaway is a copy of Timothy Donaldson's Shapes for Sounds from Mark Batty Publisher.

• Font Fridays: Six Pounds of Type!

  • October 23, 2009
  • 188 Comments

  This week, we have a special gift for members of the Typedia community—FontBook from FontShop International.

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