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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.
Free Fonts: Technical And Artistic Quality
In this third episode of the Free Fonts series we examine their technical and artistic quality.
Read moreFree Fonts: Free Is Not Always Free
In this second episode of the free Fonts series we look at the different types of free fonts.
Read moreAn Introduction to Free Fonts
This first in a series of articles on free fonts defines some basics.
Read moreUpcoming Typography Basics On The FontFeed
Short announcement for the TYPO Berlin week and the upcoming Typography Basics.
Read moreSo You Need A Typeface? Try Julian Hansen’s Font Flowchart
“So You Need A Typeface” is an alternative way of choosing fonts (or simply find inspiration) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook.
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.
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- Rian Hughes of Device Fonts has unleashed a bucketload of new type in the last few weeks. All of it…Read more
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- In this first instalment of our examination of numerals we look at the different figure sets available in OpenType fonts.…Read more
- Granshan 09 Type Design Competition
- The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia announces its second international type design competition Granshan 2009.…Read more
- Size-Specific Fonts From Scangraphic
- This post is a follow-up to the recently released FontBooklet No. 2 focusing on optical size mastering and size-specific designs.…Read more
- FF Seria Arabic, The First Arabic FontFont
- The first Arabic type family to be released by FontFont is FF Seria Arabic by Pascal Zoghbi, a companion to…Read more



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