A magazine for people curious about fonts. Edited by @RogerBlack
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Who is Jaroslav Benda? @docekalovapetra has spent the past 7 years finding the answer.
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Farewell, Ed Benguiat.
A Master of Typography, Is Dead at 92 nyti.ms/3dx8ha9
How Nils Thomsen founded @TypeMatesFonts, designed the Pensum trilogy of fonts, and decided to trust his users.
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😍 Unwrap a typeface for every day of December... 🥕Lucas Czarnecki (@TYPEmag_org) suggested Graduate by Eduardo Tunni 🌞 allifontforchristmas.com
“It’s funny because when you have been doing something for a very long time, there are a lot of things you do without analyzing quite why do you them.”—Matthew Carter on the insights gained from collaborating on his latest superfamily, Role.
Read more: typemag.org/post/on-a-role
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I’m very proud of this article I wrote for the Fall 2019 issue #4 of Type Magazine about a woman who still uses a vintage @Morisawa_JP phototypesetting machine from the ‘60s in her business in Japan. She’s inspiring me to experiment with using older printing machines! 😍
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Thank you very much! @TypeNetwork, @mo_ri_sa_wa, @JuneShinDesigns I love it! ❤️ #TYPE No.4, Fall 2019 #typography @typemag – at Munich, Bavaria
Patric King shows off the new open-source super-family for Chicago, Big Shoulders. “It needs to look like a skyscraper.”
First styles are available on Google Fonts. fonts.google.com/specimen/Bi…
#TypeTalesChicago – at Chicago, IL
Learning proper letter forms from John Downer through the teachings of H. C. Martin. #TypeTalesChicago – at Chicago, IL
: John Downer channels the Chicago lettering master, Harold C. Martin in one is his own posters.
#TypeTalesChicago – at Chicago, IL
Jen Farrell shows how she puts together 150 years of type to do contemporary design. And it's all metal and wood letterpress all the time!
#TypeTalesChicago – at Chicago, IL
Rick Valicenti, taking us on a spellbinding history of Chicago typography, talks about influences. “It’s as thoughbwe’re all on the same radio frequency. And that’s okay.”
#TypeTalesChicago – at Chicago, IL
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: Doug Thomas extols the work of the Inland Printer magazine and its great editor J. L. Frazier. With wonderful typography and lettering. (This title header, by Will Ransom.)
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A great start to the day with @SteveMatteson1, @dougthomas31, and Nermin and Will from @firebellydesign #TypeTalesChicago
: Nermin Moufti and Will Miller talk with Mango Curtis about the thinking behind Firebelly’s work with Typeforce, the annual Chicago type event. #TypeTalesChicago.
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@firebellydesign worked to help reinvigorate the @typedirectors brand through re-evaluating the messaging in print and web, creating layered communication to forge a deeper interaction between the members. #typedrivesculture #typetalechicago @TYPEmag_org
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@SteveMatteson1 starting off #typetaleschicago @TYPEmag_org with a deep dive on the work of Fred and Bertha Goudy.
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: Steve Matteson shows the early life and work of Frederic Goudy . . . In Chicago. #TypeTalesChicago
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: Paul, Shaw talks about Elizabeth Collwell, the first female type designer, as part of an amazing parade of Chicago type foundries, manufacturers, type shops and designers. The opening talk at #TypeTalesChicago!
"Cooper was an incredible letterer. As a type designer, Cooper's output was actually quite small." – @PaulShawLetters #TypeTalesChicago
