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New typeface: Lufta by Arina Shokareva!
Lufta is a friendly slab serif which will work equally great on reflective clothing patches, in a deep tech startup identity, or used for DIY projects
Lufta comes in 3 styles: Normal, Rounded, and Doubled
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New typeface: Zhivov!
Typeface based on Old Church Slavonic letterforms — an experiment by CSTM Fonts, the results of which may be useful not only to designers but also to philologists
More about Zhivov:
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New typeface: Prepis by Luboslav Boyanov!
Prepis is inspired by medieval Cyrillic manuscripts, the typeface reinterprets the traditional Ustav and Skoropis styles that have in recent years been co-opted by nationalist and far-right groups
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New typeface: Feature by @commercialtype!
A collection of three optical sizes, Time-ish at first glance
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Joined release with TypeMates, Yuni Grotesque by Philipp Neumeyer!
6 weights and 12 styles, supporting extended Latin and Cyrillic
“It’s the St. Peter at the typographic pearly gates—the end of the Samsara of narrow sans serifs!” says Yuni's author
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Sharing some guides you can resort to when there’s no way to consult a typographer
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Talked to a type designer and font detective Thomas Phinney about the cases when a typography expert might be useful in legal disputes
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Designer and ESH Gruppa partner Violetta Postnova read Noemi Biasetton’s book Superstorm: Design and Politics in the Age of Information and tells about the relationship between politics and design in the modern world
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In Erik Spiekermann’s book Stop Stealing Sheep, there’s a typography exercise where you match six typefaces with six pairs of shoes
We wondered how people outside the world of typography — those working in fashion — might approach the same task!
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Talked to a TUMO Center graphic designer and Granshan competition winner about how they see the current state of Armenian typography
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Joined release with TypeMates!
Gregory collection by Jakob Runge welcomes a charismatic sans serif with 24 styles
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In the latest episode of our Manual, we explore how to use periods and spaces in abbreviations of Latin words and phrases!
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Talked to Igor Gurovich, the co-founder of Ostengruppe and Arbeitskollective, and the Academic Supervisor of the Design School program at the Russian-Armenian University, about karma-damaging projects, and how often design education should change
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Sharing an (incomplete) list of emojis whose meaning is not obvious, confusing, or could change depending on the platform or region
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New typeface: Repose by Rüdiger!
A complex-sounding collection of six variations of a single light weight, Repose contains two sub-collections: Quadrospace (pretty much like Monospace) and Prop (with a more traditional approach to kerning)
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New typeface on our storefront: Opague by Rüdiger!
A distilled postmodern geometric sans, Opague forces itself into the spaces where it’s needed — whether on takeaway lightbox menus or sophisticated wine lists, interface designs or headlines
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Spoke to Alex Slobzheninov, the founder of the newly launched store, Contemporary Type, about why type designers need curators, how long it takes for a font to go bad, and a decentralised approach to licensing
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Together with a website focused on various grammatical and broader language issues, Gramota.ru, we've created a series dedicated to emoji!
In our first episode, we talked about emoji from a technological perspective!
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New typeface on our storefront: Factor A Mono by Interval Type!
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Spoke with the founder of Ardis Publishers, which published works by Soviet authors banned in the Soviet Union — about designing in a non-Soviet way and her experience with Soviet censorship, to better understand modern-day repressive practices
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