About the FontFeed


In early 2008 type designer and FontShop co-​founder Erik Spiek­er­mann reimag­ined 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.

Stephen Coles (San Francisco)

Stephen Coles
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 writes about their col­lec­tion and advises clients on type­face choices. When he’s not waxing poetic about new fonts, 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)

Jürgen Siebert
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 Font​blog.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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Yves Peters (Ghent)

Yves Peters
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 Typog​ra​pher.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. His talent for being able to iden­tify most type­faces on sight is utterly use­less in daily life.

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Erik Spiek­er­mann (Everywhere)

Erik Spiekermann
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

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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.

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