FontFont ♥ FFacebook, FFlickr & Co.
FontShop International’s own FontFont Library goes viral. You can now follow the world’s largest collection of original, contemporary typefaces on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Issuu, Behance, and Vimeo.
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NYU Researchers Discover Defining Factor for Legibility
The study “The uncrowded window of object recognition” advances the thesis that character spacing is the defining factor for legibility.
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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. The philologist took on the challenge to transform in Kafka’s rather eccentric letter forms into an balanced typographic flow. FF Mister K Pro will soon be available from FontShop.
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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. This font format brings many more possibilities for typographers and graphic designers.
Read moreAward-Winning Fonts
The selection of world’s best published font releases are highly respected for years. While the TDC award is the traditional top dog, Typographica is the aspiring spring chicken, asking 25 high-ranking international designers to pick from the year’s fonts.
Read moreIn Use: Klavika for NBC
Design studio Capacity wins award for NBC on-air rebranding using the typeface Klavika.
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Entertain and Embellish
Entertain and embellish with the typefaces of IHOF, Comicraft, and Norwegian Fonts. FontShop is known for workhorse text and corporate typefaces, but these new collections offer something slightly different from standard fare, proving that we are your source for decorative and novelty typefaces, too.
Read moreNew FontFonts: Release 44
Our new font blog entries have fallen a little bit behind. We won’t point you to all the new releases announced in recent newsletters, but do be sure to check out the issue showcasing the latest FontFonts.
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Handpicked Typefaces
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Type Tips
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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.
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