Atlas of Type

Otabind an explanation and some history

Something about Otabind

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A new book for typographers, type designers, and lettercarvers – and anyone interested in how to make things with your hands

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As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️

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New article: “The Art of Pairing Typefaces” is now live on 205.tf.
www.205.tf/articles/the...

Our latest typeface Crunch is now available from @typeverything.com Give it a try: typeverything.com/crunch 🔤

⚫️︎⚫️︎⚫️︎ Our new release Winner Scoreboard is just an LCD typeface, but we had the feeling that there are a few interesting things to share about it: sportsfonts.com/blog/a-story...

People in the #typography and #typesetting worlds: have you ever used ITC Founder's Caslon for book work?

Salon Series 56: The History and Craft of French Sign Painting | Letterform Archive A show-and-tell conversation celebrating the release of our new book, Lettres Décoratives

We are so pleased with the overwhelming response to our latest book, Lettres Décoratives. Meet the author, Morgane Côme, in conversation with Sam Roberts of Better Letters, on Wed, Feb 25: letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-s... #Lettering #SignPainting #Typography

Dargon sneak peek /// Anne-Dauphine Borione’s Dargon, a highly anticipated type family for gaming and fantasy, is coming soon. Members of TypeTogether’s Premier program get early beta access—sign up now! premier.type-together.com/

#Typography #Fonts #GraphicDesign #Gaming #Fantasy #fontsky

Typography News™ No. 35 YouTube video by Jectives

Chapters have been added to yesterday's livestream of Typography News™ No. 35 ✅

typography-debate.org — Digital archive of the modernist typography debate. Original texts, manifestos and rebuttals. A website by Sven Fuchs.

Another AI bot scraping event causing my nonprofit’s digital archive to fail. I am so angry at this industry and its complete abdication of any responsibility to the internet community from which it draws its value.

AI

Type@Cooper – Python for Visual Designers

There’s still time to sign up for my online Python for Visual Designers workshop for Type@Cooper @coopertype, Thursdays 6.30–9.30pm US Eastern from 26 March–14 May (8 weeks).

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huge congrats to the @letterformarchive.org type west class of 2025! a feast of creative type design typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/

A volume of essays I edited some years ago on news in #earlymodern Europe is now available open access 📖
Featuring chapters by @lenaliapi.bsky.social, @emmawhipday.bsky.social, among others!
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For the nerds, the lovers, and the fans: expanded notes on the design and development of Tiny Grotesk, the smallest-scale sans-serif superfamily ☞ tinytype.co/news/2024/de...

Matchbook-Neon Typography Tour 2/12 From vintage type to old glowing signs, follow the historic corridors of mid-century nightlife in San Francisco via neon and matchbooks.

I’m co-leading tours with @sfneon.bsky.social tomorrow and March 4. We visit sites around Union Square and connect their signs and matchbooks to #SanFrancisco nightlife history.

Feb 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/matchbook-...
Mar 4: www.eventbrite.com/e/matchbook-...

#Signs #Neon #Typography

Elisava Masters' Talk - Karel Martens & Thomas Castro YouTube video by Elisava

Stop the presses! [pun intended]: Karel Martens is giving a talk live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ArW...

Vintage illustrated postcard: a man and woman stand at a ping-pong table holding paddles. Handwritten text at upper right reads, ‘How shall I begin.’

How shall I begin? With a first post, of course. Follow along for highlights from our digital collections 🏓
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#Libraries #SpecialCollections

LTR Limited Grotesque®: Probably never at Monotype, but available at letterror.com/limited/ and FontStand. Variable weight humanist sans. More flavor, less baggage. #fonts #typography #lettering #sans

A mock-up of my Web Day Out lanyard – use JOIN_RICH for 10% off.

What’s new in web typography?

This is a question I’ll be answering at this year’s webdayout.com

I'll cover the paved cowpaths and the shiny things that bring expressiveness, fine detail, responsiveness, consistency and efficiency to your work.

Use JOIN_RICH to get 10% off.

#typography #css

EU friends! I’m trying (with varying degrees of success) to plan some small European launch events for the release of Fine Specimens in late March / early April.

If you know a bookshop owner (actually know them, not just know *of* them) in a major EU city, I’m gratefully accepting recommendations.

Banger soundtrack

Introducing Urgell, a display typeface inspired by a striking vintage Deco-style street sign located at Comte d’Urgell 16 in Barcelona, Catalonia. www.brutaltypes.com/fonts/urgell

Ah, I see what they did there..!

New Release: Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, by Simon Renaud
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Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, extend the Augure typeface by applying a rigorous logic of measurement and alignment.

a big mess, but lovely

every time I hear of a new Emigre typeface release I’m pleasantly surprised; this one is called Modulator www.emigre.com/TypeSpecimen...

Typography News™ No. 33 YouTube video by Jectives

Chapters are up for yesterdays livestream of Typography News No. 33 👀

This month's blog features interviews with Malou Verlomme about Quatorze, Emmanuel Besse about Sancy Slab, Petra Dočekalová about PD Donut, and Erkin Karamemet about EK Ultimo: blog.identifont.com