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)
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. His talent for being able to identify most typefaces on sight is utterly useless in daily life.
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Posts by Yves | Contact | Twitter
Stephen Coles (San Francisco)
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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Posts by Stephen | Contact | Twitter | Personal Site
Jürgen Siebert (Berlin)
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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Posts by Jürgen | Contact
Erik Spiekermann (Everywhere)
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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Posts by Erik | Contact
The FontFeed editors, San Francisco, October 2008
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News
The latest in the world of typography, lettering, and type design.
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Handpicked Typefaces
Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
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Type Tips
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
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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.
Popular Posts
- The Logos of Web 2.0
- Safe standbys like Trade and News Gothic, Frutiger, Avenir, Interstate… Read more
- Extra Bold, Ultra Black Fonts: Hit Hard with Heavy Duty Type
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- Extra Light, Ultra Thin Fonts: Hairline Type Lends Elegance to the Page
- FF Meta Light with PMN Caecilia in Real Simple magazine. Just as there is often a need for extra heavy type… Read more
- Contemporary Handwriting Fonts
- The FontShop shelves are stocked with thousands of delightful script typefaces, but it can be difficult to find those that… Read more
- Avant Garde Gothic Alternates Are Back
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic’s alts are a trademark of ’60s and ’70s design, but have seen a huge resurgence of late. Maligned by some, sought by many… Read more
- Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners
- The American Association of University Presses (AAUP) holds an annual Book, Jacket & Journal Show which catalogs the best in book design and exhibits it around the country… Read more
- In Use: Plantin for Monocle
- On the newsstand today there is no better example of elegant typographic restraint than Monocle… Read more
- ScreenFonts: District 9, The Time Traveler’s Wife, It Might Get Loud, Inglourious Basterds, Art & Copy
- I noticed something while gathering the posters for this episode of ScreenFonts. While reviewing the August releases on IMDB the small thumbnail versions of the posters were sufficient for me… Read more
- Back To The Eighties With Justice’s DVNO
- It’s a disease. No really, I mean it. Whenever we see faces – typefaces that is – we feel compelled to identify them. Whatever the situation or the context… Read more
- ISTD Awards 2009: A Chat With The Winning FontFont Designers
- I conducted mini-interviews with the winning FontFont designers which I originally intended to publish in last week’s ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2009 post… Read more
- FF Mister K: Franz Kafka’s Pen
- The manuscripts of author Franz Kafka had such a profound impact on Finnish graphic and type designer Julia Sysmäläinen that she decided to convert his handwriting with its unusually strong calligraphic characteristics into a digital script.… Read more
- Embrace the OpenType Hype
- We love OpenType. It’s not just the latest font technology, but also the most advanced, poised to replace the old TrueType and PostScript formats… Read more
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