FontCast
FontCast #7 — Dyana Weissman on Kerning
Dyana of The Font Bureau explains the difference between kerning and spacing, why it should be done by hand, and the mystical concept of flow.
Read moreCelebrating 20 Years of FontShop With Erik Spiekermann
The third in a series of interviews with people that played a key role in twenty years of FontShop.
Read moreWebfonts Week: An Interview with Erik Spiekermann
Spiekermann embraced the fledgling world of digital type early on when he founded FontShop 20 years ago, and he’s just as forward-thinking now about licensing type in an era of Web-embeddable fonts.
Read moreWebfonts Week: An Interview with Christian Schwartz
On our fourth day of Webfonts Week I thought it wise to hear from someone who represents the future of type design. Who better than Christian Schwartz?
Read moreWebfonts Week: An Interview with David Berlow of The Font Bureau
Taking the pulse of the font community would not be complete without the man who has been active in type design and technology from the beginning of the digital era.
Read moreWebfonts Week: An Interview with Simon Daniels of Microsoft
Webfonts Week continues as we chat with a guy who has been instrumental in Microsoft’s focus on screen typography since 1995.
Read moreWebfonts Week: An Interview with Bryan Mason of Typekit
Our first installment of Webfonts Week interviews is with Bryan Mason, whose Typekit service offers an innovative model for including fonts on a website.
Read moreThe 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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