Emigre, founded by Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans in Berkeley, California, in 1984, has joined The Type Founders (TTF). Licko and VanderLans will stay actively involved in Emigre's creative direction and curation.
Typographer, from The Type Founders, is now free for prototyping. Test 15,000+ fonts from foundries you trust, and license only what you use.
Mark Simonson knew he wanted to design typefaces long before he knew how to make a living doing it. See how a college assignment became a lifelong pursuit.
See how Chank Diesel has been creating fonts with humanity and a touch of anarchy for the past few decades.
Ask P22’s Richard Kegler and he’ll tell you not knowing the rules of type design can sometimes lead to the most interesting work.
Branding is a forward-facing endeavor. A great rebrand paves the way to present a company’s future vision to its audience. The most direct form of communication is through words, which is why a strong type system is so important. When considering typography, it’s important to make expressive aesthetic decisions that align with resilient design choices. You may carefully choose a typeface, typographic scale, and hierarchy, then craft your brand guidelines. Over the years, unanticipated platform changes, campaigns, and launches into new markets can slowly erode once-elegant branding.
How a bunch of scientists and a man named Newt helped inspire lifelong interest in the world of typography.
Type designer Sabrina Lopez continues her documentation of Didactica with “La familia Didactica,” a Spanish-language article on the Alphabettes blog exploring the type family she designed for Typesen…
Every year, the design blogosphere publishes plenty of lists about current typography trends. This year, the range feels enormous. Certainly too wide to define.
The story of how type design became a cottage industry and how independent designers actually got discovered and paid for their craft, is still untold. I propose these five moments: a tool, a pivot, an accelerator, a new medium, and a disruption.
My interest in type design traces back to a type design project I did in college as an art student 50 years ago. I wrote about it here last March and shared it on social media. A commenter on Instagr…
Strong typography in your design system is more than specifying fonts and sizes. It helps your team make repeatable decisions about how text should work.
See how Richard Lipton’s incredible journey shaped his life and the Type Design industry around the world.
Welcome to "The World of Type." While the title is audacious, it reflects exactly what we intend to discuss — nothing more, and nothing less.
Introducing a new brand that embodies the stewardship we have for our foundries and carries us forward.
See how Jerry Kelly's career went from calligraphy to book design to type design to all of them combined.
Good type doesn’t sell itself. Here’s how to build a foundry marketing strategy that reaches the right designers and brand teams and turns their interest into steady licensing income.
See how Jan Maack's life journey took him from art director to one of the most interesting type designers in the world.
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