Type Tips
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Typography Basics
Refresh yourself with the terminology and fundamentals required for sound typesetting.
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Typography Tutorials
Step-by-step methods for getting the most out of your fonts and graphic design software.
New End User Licence Agreement For FontFonts
The new FontFont EULA permits embedding in any non-editable document, application, and even device, as long as the font is embedded as a subset in a secure format.
Read morePainless Font Installation
Installing fonts the old-fashioned way made easy with FontShop’s slide shows that show you step by step what to do with the font files.
Read more“Typography For Lawyers” Gives Basic Type Tips
Matthew Butterick is a type designer turned lawyer who provides valuable typographic information on his educational website “Typography for Lawyers”.
Read moreATypI’09 Preview | Mexico, Forging The Character
“Mexico, Forging The Character” gives a concise overview of the history of type and lettering in Mexico.
Read moreCocoe Produces Typographic Commercial For El Tesoro Público
Another creation by The Cocoe Conspiracy who were featured on The FontFeed with their splendid PsychoTypoGraph.
Read moreOn The Evolution of Type by Means of Technological Advancements and Cultural Shifts
This interactive Twentieth Century Timeline of Typography is a concise overview of the pertinent moments in typography in the past century.
Read moreStyles, Weights, Widths — It’s All in the (Type) Family
In a previous Type Basics we examined the difference between a typeface and a font. Both terms refer to a single manifestation of type. In this episode we will look at how individual typefaces/fonts relate to each other.
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- Web FontFonts: A New Decisive Step Towards More Typographic Diversity on the Web
- One month after the launch of Firefox 3.6 which – amongst other things – introduced support for the Web Open…Read more
- FontFonts on the Web, Starting Today
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- Preview Fonts In Adobe Creative Suite With The Free FontShop Plugin
- Preview the 150,000 FontShop fonts directly in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and create comps and mock-ups for your clients…Read more




The latest in the world of typography, lettering, and type design.
Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
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.