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FontCast #17 — Amman: The City, The Typeface, The Film
The bilingual Latin/Arabic sans/serif type system FF Amman was developed by Yanone for the capital of Jordan at the occasion of its centenary celebrations.
Read moreFontCast #16 — FontFont Type Department
Behind the scenes of FontFont’s Type department, the unsung heroes who work together with the type designers to turn their alphabets into high quality digital fonts.
Read moreFontCasts #13, 14, 15 — FontFont Designers
FontFont represents some of the most talented and interesting type designers in the world. In celebration of FontShop’s 20th Anniversary, FSI’s Ivo Gabrowitsch took an opportunity to talk with seven FontFont designers for a special FontCast series.
Read moreFontCast #12 — Damon Styer of New Bohemia Signs
New Bohemia Signs carries on the tradition of hand-made sign-painting to create new markers for the next generation of city dwellers.
Read moreFontCast #11 — Jim Parkinson, Part 2
Part two of our two part series with Jim Parkinson. Type designer and Logo designer for Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Esquire, and many other publications.
Read moreFontCast #10 — Jim Parkinson, Part 1
In FontCast’s search for typographic designers with interesting stories to tell we talk to Jim Parkinson.
Read moreFontCast #9 — TypeTogether
FontShop is proud to offer fonts from TypeTogether, a foundry that has become a household name among editorial designers. I had a chance to ask them more about their recent rise to fame in Mexico City at ATypI’s Typ09 conference.
Read moreFontCast #8 — Crystian Cruz
After years of working as a magazine art director in Brazil, Crystian Cruz took a hiatus to the UK’s University of Reading where he developed his ideas for typeface design. He returned to start an editorial design consultancy, armed with expertise in both sides of typography: type creation and type use. Crystian expounds on the [...]
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