New issue of Slanted Magazine released
Karlsruhe, Germany - 9 July 2009
Check out the new Slanted Magazine as well as fresh new typefaces fromVolcano Type.

Engineering Windows 7 for a Global Market
Redmond, WA - 9 July 2009
Learn more about new fonts and international support in Windows 7. More details...

ClearType in Windows 7
Redmond, WA. - 29 June 2009
Read the E7 blog entry on ClearType in Windows 7. More details...

Ascender releases Rebus Script
Elk Grove Village, IL - 23 June 2009
This new OpenType font that uses the Contextual Alternate feature to create rebus puzzles by automatically replacing certain words or syllables with pictures. More details...

FontCreator 6.0 released!
The Netherlands - 17 June 2009
Today High-Logic B.V. released FontCreator 6, "the world's most popular font editor." This version delivers powerful tools such as direct import of both raster and vector based images.

Register for Typecon
typecon.com - 17 June 2009
Early registration has been extended and they've just launched the new TypeCon and SOTA member registration system, powered by RegOnline.

Cyrillic Typeface competition
Saratoga, CA - 16 June 2009
Paratype announces a competition of Cyrillic typefaces to mark the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great’s reform of the Russian alphabet and putting into practice the civil type. More details...

Sketch Flow fonts
Mix09 - 27 March 2009
Check out the new Sketch Flow fonts featured in this presentation. Details at the 12:50 mark.

Justified West
Vancouver, BC - 26 March 2009
A one-day typographic event presented by Langara College and the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada.

Building a School in Tanzania
Portland, Main - 26 March 2009
TypeCulture has pledged a percentage of its 2009 earnings in licenses to the Africa Schoolhouse Foundation to help finance the building of a school complex in the village of Ntulya.

Spiekefficiency
Berlin, Germany - 26 March 2009
Group of Germans set up a proofing press.

Mrs Eaves XL
Emigre.com - 24 March 2009
Emigre announces Mrs Eaves XL.

Robothon 2009
blip.tv - 24 March 2009
Robothon 2009 talks uploaded to letterror.blip.tv.

ATypI update
ATypI.org - 24 March 2009
Typ90 details and call for papers posted to ATypI site.

News Break
Redmond, WA. - 6 March 2009
The Microsoft typography news team apologizes for the lack of news over the past month and we hope to resume normal news service shortly.

Rising Stars
myfonts.com - 17 February 2009
MyFonts posts February Rising Stars newsletter.

Smallest letter record broken
New Scientist - 26 January 2009
Team of researchers makes letters 1.5 nanometers tall, beating previous record by .5 nanometers.

OpenType editor: DTL OTMaster
The Netherlands - 26 January 2009
The Dutch Type Library and URW++ Design & Development present DTL OTMaster, for reviewing, editing and saving tables of fonts with a snft file structure, such as CFF and TTF flavored OpenType fonts, TrueType fonts and TrueType Collection fonts. More details...

Ethiopian beer labels…
The Web - 26 January 2009
…just because they feature interesting lettering.

TypeCon call for speakers
Atlanta, GA. - 25 January 2009
Get your talk proposal in early for the typographic event of the summer.

Inside the design lair
Objectified - 25 January 2009
The blogs have gone gaga over this still (ie. photo) taken inside a hollowed-out-volcano product design base.

ROFLCon round up
The Internets - 25 January 2009
Vinncent Connare and a cast of several. Writeups here, here and here.

Emoji phones it in
The Internets - 25 January 2009
Those following the Unicode encoding of emoji, might be interested in this.

DR RIP
London, UK - 23 January 2009
Creative Review reports that UK based design agency Designers Republic, best known for its use of faux-East-Asian inspired techno typography and icons, has gone out of business.

Klingon keyboard
Tech Republic - 22 January 2009
Live long and prosper with the Klingon keyboard.

Stars of January
MyFonts - 22 January 2009
Myfonts posts this months Rising Stars newsletter.

Typophile events
Typophile.com - 21 January 2009
An online calendar of type related events.

New Gothams inaugurated
typography.com - 20 January 2009
H&FJ pick slow news day for Gotham update.

Nothing to see here…
thomasphinney.com - 20 January 2009
Tom’s new post-Adobe home on the Web. Bookmark it for future content. As reported on typophile.

Enter (via) the (Dot) Matrix
Engadget - 20 January 2009
New phone features dot matrix key-caps, exactly like the ones ancient computers didn’t have.

Windows opens doors
publicradio.org - 20 January 2009
Microsoft interface packs mentioned on Marketplace.

Wood face book
typophile - 20 January 2009
The most comprehensive book on wood type in 50 years, The Art of Woodtype.

Scalable type goes mobile
Mobile Dev & Design - 20 January 2009
“Scalable type has arrived in mobile devices” says Steven Martin of Monotype Imaging.

Font Shop’s best of 2008
fontshop.com - 19 January 2009
Here’s one we missed, Font Shop’s top twenty or so fonts of 2008.

FEX iconography revealed
The Web - 19 January 2009
Designer describes the making of the font Explorer X icons. Via the Quips.

Cheap and pro and 1 year old
CheapProFonts.com - 19 January 2009
CheapProFonts offers a wide selection of mainly display-fonts with a large character set supporting 65 languages requiring more that the basic A-Z. More details...

ATypI dates - official
atypi.org - 19 January 2009
Lock it in… October 26 to October 30th, Mexico City.

Brit stamps show no font love
The Royal Post - 18 January 2009
Design stamp series passes over typographic achievements.

MyFonts top ten of 2008
MyFonts.com - 18 January 2009
The top new font designs according to MyFonts.

More on Emoji
Various - 18 January 2009
Those following the Emoji encoding discussion on the Unicode list might be interested in this article and this one too.

FEX ready for prime time
Linotype - 18 January 2009
Linotype announces the commercial release of Font Explorer X and several font releases.

Objectified premiere set
Various - 18 January 2009
Objectified, the eagerly awaited follow up to Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica will get its first screening at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March.

Font Bros Update
FontBros - 18 January 2009
Font Bros rings in the new year with two new foundries and a “TON of BRAND NEW FONTS for you to enjoy!” More details...

Type Studio latest
thetypestudio.com - 18 January 2009
Featuring: TypeTalk: You ask, we answer, OpenType Features, Who is Max Kerning?, Gourmet Typography January Schedule, Onsite Gourmet Typography and a recession discount.

Raiders of the lost Gill
Typophile - 9 January 2009
Long forgotten Eric Gill type design unearthed in Salfords.

The form of the book
London, UK - 8 January 2009
A one-day conference hosted by the St Bride Printing Library in London on January 30th.

The first Arabic printing press
ATypI List - 5 January 2009
Type designer Pascal Zoghbi has posted some artifacts from the press of Al-Shamas Abdullah Zakher, founded in 1734. Via John Hudson.

Reviving the art of making books
Buffalo, NY. - 29 December 2008
Rich and Carima pictured here, in an article about the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative.