The Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar 2022 · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
For 24 days this month, Matthias featured a different independent type foundry, writing about each one and selecting some lovely examplars of their typefaces.
Related links
How to create a typographic hierarchy – Pangram Pangram Foundry
- Start with the text
- Use size intentionally
- Contrast weights and styles
- Play with spacing
- Use colour, but don’t rely on it
- Limit your font choices (but choose well and wisely)
- Repeat, repeat, repeat
- Test your system
Citywide – Jason Santa Maria
A fun new font from Jason:
Citywide is a sans serif family inspired by mid-1900s bus and train destination roll signs.
Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
This is a very handy piece of work by Rich:
The idea is to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose (a column of text), making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType. The main principle is that it can be used as starting point for all projects, so doesn’t include design-specific aspects such as font choice, type scale or layout (including how you might like to set the line-length).
The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture - St Bride Foundation
Oh, this looks like an excellent event (in London and online):
Adventures in Episodic Type Design
With David Jonathan Ross
Thursday 17th October 2024
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The future of typography is here.
Billboards and Novels by Jon Tan
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