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 Featured font pack
fonts, templates and design tools.
The Ascender Creativity Font Pack is a value-priced, inspiring collection of fonts, templates and design tools to enhance Microsoft Office.
Featuring a great selection of 30 display, script and text fonts licensed from leading type designers, over 40 templates for Microsoft Word, the Ascender Font Selector (to help you find and pick the right fonts) and other design tools.
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 Events
Plan your typo life...
TypeCon 2008
Buffalo, NY. 15–20 July 2008
The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has announced that TypeCon2008 will be held in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo is home to the P22 type foundry, and is a city full of incredible architecture, the Roycrofters in the region, and a cultural renaissance suited to all appreciators of the fine arts, contemporary music, innovative architecture, and design.
ATypI 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia. September 2008
2008’s ATypI conference will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the theme Civil Type. 2008 marks the 300th anniversary of Czar Peter the Great’s introduction of the Civil Type, a radical reform of the Cyrillic alphabet that laid the foundation for the forms of Russian and other Cyrillic writing and printing that we're familiar with today.
More events.
 In print
Print isn't dead yet...
Typo Magazine 31
 Typo 31, dedicated to Korean graphic design and typography, is the first edition of this highly regarded Czech publication to feature a new size, exclusive paper and expanded number of pages.
Eye
 Eye Magazine’s “Type special” includes special articles on lettering in public spaces and the “lust and likeability” of typefaces.
How
How's annual typography issue spotlights designers making and working with type in unique ways, including interviews with Akira Kobayashi and Matteo Bologna.
Letter Arts Review
 Letter Arts Review features page after page of stunning calligraphy with insightful articles on the art form.
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Typography headlines [RSS]
Typography news archive [RSS]
Meet Vinnie
Design Week - 9 October 2008
Vincent Connare gets profiled in Design Week. Fantastic Georgia
magculture.com - 9 October 2008
Fantastic Man mag features article on Georgia by Alice Rawsthorn. Thanks to Joe Clark for the link. Ale Paul tribute
Veer.com - 9 October 2008
Veer posts a slide show in honor of Alejandro Paul’s latest effort, Compendium… “pure calligraphic wonder.” Bad Helvetica gets their goat
typophile - 9 October 2008
Lithuanians distressed by ogonek placement. Frutiger compressed
The Web - 8 October 2008
In the font world you want Adrian Frutiger in your corner. Gutenberg reviewed
Boston.com - 8 October 2008
Another entertaining write up on Gutenberg! The Musical. Font of (BBC) Entertainment
BBC News - 6 October 2008
Monotype’s Seb Lester hits the BBC Entertainment section with a feature on movie poster fonts. Spanish Bringhurst
Latin America - 25 September 2008
Marina Garone Gravier reports that the Spanish version of The Elements of Typographical Style, by Robert Bringhurst, has gone to press. This edition will be co-published by Libraria and Fondo de Cultura Económica. Font embedding explored
fontembedding.com - 28 July 2008
To coincide with the TypeCon panel discussion on the subject Ascender has unleashed fontembedding.com, a one stop shop for all your embedding news, discussion and explanation. Objectified via Helvetica
objectifiedfilm.com - 28 July 2008
Gary’s follow-up to Helvetica, Objectified takes on industrial design. We wonder who’ll play the part of Erik Spiekermann in this sequel? More Corbel?
San Jose, CA. - 1 July 2008
Miguel Sousa, who knows a thing or two about cool shirts, has designed this one, in honor of one of Microsoft’s finest new fonts. Thanks Tiffany for the link. NYT on DIY fonts
New York Times - 26 June 2008
Peter Wayner explores the world of do-it-yourself fonts. Amen to that
Business Week - 25 June 2008
The ten commandments of web design. Number six … “worship at the altar of typography.” Via Daring Fireball. webfonts.info
opentype.info - 19 June 2008
Ralf Herrmann has launched a site to discuss all things related to web font downloads. |
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