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• Post #2441282

  Jim Parkinson died today. He was a prolific and astoundingly gifted lettering artist, type designer, and painter. I feel lucky to say he was also my friend. https://typographica.org/on-typography/jim-parkinson-1941-2025/ #JimParkinson

• Post #2314953

  Last year I was honored to give the 50th Dwiggins Lecture for the Society of Printers in Boston. The recording is now up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LEnuM0e1U In the talk I try to capture what gives WAD’s type so much life, and suggest some contemporary designers whose work also has those attributes. Featuring @djrrb, Cyrus Highsmith, Sofia Mohr, John Downer, Franziska Weitgruber, @SandrineNugue, @klim. #TypeDesign #Fonts #WADwiggins #Typography

• Post #1920593

  Today, I am grateful for @internetarchive and all online archives, and the institutions that doggedly do the tedious and often thankless work of making them go. Like @SLUBDresden & @arthistoricum who digitized and host the seminal German design magazine Gebrauchsgraphik (which was once available only at IADDB, a site currently offline due to a rebuild): https://www.arthistoricum.net/werkansicht/dlf/112648/1 Here are rock solid snippets from just the first issue in 1924. #Gebrauchsgrafi...

• Post #1868436

  Looking to expand language support in your fonts? While not its intended purpose, the database on @juan_kafka’s https://typecritcrew.com can be a good way to find type designers with expertise in specific scripts, with the added benefit of highlighting type designers who value diversity, inclusivity, and access to education. #TypeDesign #Typography #Fonts #ArabicType #DevanagariType #KannadaType #GujaratiType #TamilType #GurmukhiType #HangulType #HanziType #ArmenianType #ThaiType #CherokeeType

• Post #1410733

  I was very moved by this Seb McLauchlan piece: https://counter-forms.com/texts/revivals #TypeDesign #TypeRevivals #CounterForms #SebMcLauchlan

• Post #1341430

  got messy fonts? https://www.ebay.com/itm/175767432847

• Post #1103509

  Four tools for creating optically corrected italics: 1. Cursify in @glyphsapp 2. Italic Assistant by @tribby (Lecture: https://vimeo.com/1059825184) 3. Lettersital by Matt Burvil (https://tools.lettersetal.co.uk/) 4. Italify by @scarewe (https://www.sebastiancarewe.com/italify) Discussion (with more heat and sass than is necessary, but still interesting): https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5568/new-algorithm-italify-optically-corrected-obliques/p1

• Post #1103506

  From today’s @ksmallgallery email https://mailchi.mp/ksmallgallery/easter-feaster?e=593e4a1f1b Sometimes it pays to ask a question. Like, we were told that this might be the work of Philip Burton. So we asked him. Here’s what he had to say: “Here’s the story: I was on the design faculty in the School of Art between 1981 and 1989. I don’t remember the exact year but Steve Jobs gave us 22 computers. (Alvin Eliseman’s charm.) ¶ Each second year student in the graduate program had one at their des...

• Post #1103505

  A #LetterWest moment: when Noel Weber gifted Letter Queen a vintage #Speedball set. @blag Skylar (https://www.instagram.com/letter.queen?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==) is worth including in the mag. They have a great collection and understanding of 19th-century ornamental lettering.

• Post #917728

  Typophile was active for 18 years (2000–2018). TypeDrawers (b. 2012) will reach that age in four years.

• Post #856999

  I keep coming back to this fabulous 1885 catalog from specialty printer, McNeil Bros: https://archive.org/details/specimensofdrugg00mcne/page/n3/mode/2up

• Post #748635

  Just backed this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamesgrieshaber/the-virgin-wood-type-bible/ #WoodType #TypeSpecimens #Typography #Typefaces #Fonts

• Post #658796

  I’ll be cohosting another tour with SF Neon on March 4. We visit sites in the Union Square neighborhood and connect their signs and matchbooks to #SanFrancisco’s nightlife history. Just a few tickets left! https://sfneon.org/ #Signs #Neon #NeonSigns #Matchbooks #Typography #Lettering

• Post #653850

  Harbor Bickmore of That That Type shares his font sales numbers from 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPlT9KQEKU Creative Market 2023: $24K 2025: $8K ↓↓ Envato Elements 2023: $9K 2025: $9.5K ↑ Etsy 2023: $3.5K 2025: $265 ↓ (he didn’t add new fonts) Monotype 2023: $2K 2025: $28.7K ↑↑ (added many more fonts) Supply Family 2025: $1.6K (can’t upload large families) YouWorkForThem 2023: $10K 2023: $7.5K ↓ That That Website 2023: $4K 2025: $20.5K ↑↑ Custom Type 2025: $102K Summary:...

• Post #653849

  https://typography-debate.org/ — Digital archive of the modernist typography debate. Original texts, manifestos and rebuttals. By @svenofuchs.

• Post #653848

  Abolish ICE. Screen print by Carlos Barberena. https://justseeds.org/product/abolish-ice-3/ “This print is to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis caused by the family separation policy, “Zero Tolerance” during the Trump administration. This policy separated more than 5,000 children from their parents, keeping them in detention centers that violate their human rights. To this day, there are hundreds of children who have still not been reunited with their parents.”

• Post #653847

  Another banger from Maximiliano Sproviero, proving he is the master of 1960s script fonts. https://sproviero-type.com/font/feline/

• Post #618313

  Christian Schwartz’s Amplitude comes home to his own foundry @commercial after the sunsetting of Font Bureau. And finally updated with italics! https://vault.commercialtype.com/vault/amplitude One of my favorite typefaces, often recommended to folks who want a versatile fam with deep ink traps, and the identity type for @FontID.

• Post #477342

  A site from @commercial that exhibits a new type family (@greggazdowicz’s Terza) and the text drafting process: https://terza.commercialtype.com/ (Editing by our own @litherland.)