Jan 22, 2010 by Pedro Serrão0
ILoveTypography favorite typefaces of 2009
Don’t miss it, a great list!
Congratulations to Rui Abreu, a portuguese fantastic entry to the top 2009 fonts with Catacumba.
And I also love Phaeton, what a beauty.
Oct 20, 2008 by Pedro Serrão2
Typocalipse
A photoset on Flickr about the meaning behind each typeface.
Aug 5, 2008 by Pedro Serrão0
Marian Bantjes
Marian Bantjes “Love Stories” will be part of the next issue of Monograph (available to subscribers of Creative Review).
Jul 7, 2008 by Pedro Serrão0
TDC 2008
Congratulations to Dino dos Santos, for the winning entry in this year Type Directors Club, with the typeface Ventura.
See all the results here.
May 20, 2008 by Pedro Serrão0
Frutiger Serif
Fresh news from Linotype with Frutiger Serif:
“Adrian Frutiger has earned great respect over many years as one of the world’s most prominent and talented typeface designers,” said Frank Wildenberg, managing director of Linotype GmbH. “It’s an honor to add Frutiger Serif to the family of Linotype typefaces that bears his name.”
“While Frutiger has designed some of the most widely used and aesthetically pleasing typefaces, his philosophy has never changed – that type should always be legible and pragmatic. These characteristics are evident in his abstract style that is timeless yet contemporary,” said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging. “Few type designers are able to achieve this balance the way Frutiger has succeeded.”
The Frutiger Serif design is based on the Meridien® typeface, one of Frutiger’s first, released in 1957. Some of the earliest letterpress specimens of the original Meridien design still exist, which served as inspiration for the Frutiger Serif project. “I have a deep appreciation for the metal version of Meriden, which is quite different than the digital version,” said Kobayashi, who with the support of Frutiger redrew and expanded the Meridien design to create Frutiger Serif. “The spirit of Meridien is still evident in Frutiger Serif, which incorporates elegant serifs, gentle curves and arcs. We added weights, widths and styles that not only come closer to Frutiger’s original Meridien but also harmonize with several of Frutiger’s sans serif faces.”
The Frutiger Serif typeface family is available in five weights ranging from light to heavy, and all weights are available in both regular and condensed versions. Each has a corresponding italic, in addition to a condensed italic. The Frutiger Serif fonts support 48 western, central and eastern European languages, including Baltic and Turkish. The fonts are available in the OpenType® cross-platform format and include OpenType features such as ligatures, small caps and several numerical figures.
Apr 18, 2008 by Pedro Serrão1
FontStruct
FontShop brings you FontStruct, a free font building tool:
FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.
Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.
Jan 9, 2008 by Pedro Serrão0
Michael Bierut interview
Here is an interview with graphic designer Michael Bierut, where he talks about the evolution of type, the various covers of The Catcher in the Rye, the ugliness of ITC Garamond, and all sorts of other intriguing things.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 21, 2007 by Pedro Serrão0
Minuscule
From France, Thomas Huot-Marchand gives us Minuscule, a typeface for extremely small sizes, which could be used under the commonly acknoweledged threshold of legibility (around 7 points). Five versions have been developed, optimized for a use in 6 (Minuscule Six), 5 (Minuscule Cinq), 4 (Minuscule Quatre), 3 (Minuscule Trois) and 2 pts (Minuscule Deux).
Minuscule received the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club New-York, in the TDC2 2005 Type Design Competition (category Text).
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