About the FontFeed

In early 2008 type designer and FontShop co-founder Erik Spiekermann re-imagined the FontFeed as a standalone blog dedicated to typography and it officially launched in its new space on 9 September, 2008. The FontFeed once existed in a different form at FontShop.com with posts by Stephen Coles, but now combines the insightful voices of prominent design writer Jürgen Siebert and typography expert Yves Peters, with occasional contributions from Herr Spiekermann himself. Read more about the new FontFeed.

Yves Peters (Ghent, Belgium)

In August 2008 Yves put his graphic design career on the back burner, freeing him to concentrate on his writing and related activities in the digital type business. He writes his Bald Condensed type reviews on Typographer.org and edits Unzipped, the blog on the FontShop BeNeLux home page. Yves also is an accomplished drummer with British/Belgian pop/rock band Troubleman and Americana outfit Rosa Luxe*. His talent for being able to identify most typefaces on sight is utterly useless in daily life.

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Stephen Coles (San Francisco, USA)

Stephen’s obsession with type and lettering wreaks havoc in his daily life where he is routinely tripped by fire hydrants while admiring vintage signs. Fortunately, his freakishness found a home at FontShop where he served as Type Director from 2004–2010. Stephen publishes the blogs Typographica and The Mid-Century Modernist. He is currently dating FF Tisa after breaking off a long and passionate affair with Motter Femina.

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Jürgen Siebert (Berlin, Germany)

Chief Marketing Officer of FontShop AG, Jürgen also co-founded the German graphic arts magazine PAGE, and co-edited FontBook – dubbed the bible of digital typefaces. He is a member of the FontFont TypeBoard and since 1997 he has been responsible for FontShop Germany’s TYPO Berlin, arguably the largest annual design conference in Europe. Jürgen edits Fontblog.de, an online journal of design, typography and media which entered the Top 20 in the German blog charts in summer 2008.

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Erik Spiekermann (Everywhere, World)

Erik is an information architect, type designer (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk and many corporate typefaces), and author of books and articles on design and typography. In 2003 Erik received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in Den Haag and he was recently elected an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA in Britain. Erik travels often, practicing design and speaking to students and professionals around the world.

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The FontFeed editors, San Francisco, October 2008

News The latest in the world of typography, lettering, and type design.
Handpicked Typefaces Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
Type Tips Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
Fonts in Use Specimens are nice, but we love to catch a typeface in the wild, where it can truly show how it performs in the real world.

The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.