New York artist Hong Seon Jang designs cityscapes with metal type.Think your town touts the title for font capital of the world? Stephen Coles takes us a global tour of type.

Type designer Sebastian Nagel sits down for a chat with Ralf Herrmann on.

Florian Hardwig writes about a new series of Swedish postage stamps that feature typefaces.

Github swaps icon images for “ Octicons.”.

With a fresh design of his site, Elliot Jay Stocks explains a bit about using ligatures on the web.A copywriter shares her depression and distain for headlines.A subtle, animated interpretation of the Baskerville typeface by Tien-Min Liao.Reign of Art features artist duo Stefan Guzy and Björn as they give an exclusive insight into their process.In the inaugural episode of, Elisabeth Kopf shares a bit about her start with type, her work and her wonderful “little orchestra.”.Bill Moran - artistic director of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum - chats about his pride and joy for Design Observer.Our friend Allen Tan interviews Kai Brach on I Love Typography.

What would a future without typography be like? Delve Withrington shares a few thoughts on a conversation between Culture File Pod and Oded Ezer.Bronner’s Magic Soaps and issues a challenge to redesign the typographically epic label. Fonts In Use touches on the elegant label design of Dr.Avenir Next Rounded extends the family with four weights of softened, understated “contemporary variants”.Īnd now for the rest of the happenings this week: Under the watchful eye of master Adrian Frutiger, Linotype’s Akira Kobayashi and Sandra Winter have taken the sans serif belt sander to one of the foundry’s most beloved text faces.

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