Learning Type Design

Another tidbit from my Dwiggins/Linotype files: In late April 1947, C.H. Griffith wrote a letter to Dwiggins with the heading “A Study in Proportion”. CHG had been puzzling over something in the final sizing of the Falcon series. He had the drawings and punches checked against the master graphs, and all checked out. But it turns out there had been a slight error by the factory in shaving the side bearings of the test matrices “at a time when several new inspectors were being broken in.” 1/4

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Words of Type Events offer a series of lectures and workshops with various topics about typography and typeface design, in English and other languages, hosted on the WoT community.

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For the process applied for multi axis fonts, you can look these repo: Roboto (good example STAT generation with an ital axis) Trispace (clear example for build process but no italics) Literata (go...

A look at variable fonts in real life. Everything’s here: practical examples, file optimization and accessibility benefits, and… the future!

Fonts chapter of the 2022 Web Almanac covering where fonts are loaded from, font formats, font loading performance, variable fonts, and color fonts.

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Understanding the important role of typography in reading is a key subject that designers should know and learn about. Design for reading is an enormous responsibility that we should face and resolve correctly. In these pages you will find an explanation of how one reads, the movement of our eyes when we read, how we recognize words. You will find excellent material of a diverse nature and complexity that will help understand the basic princi- ples of typography, wrong ideas and practices that are common in the profession, and advanced concepts of reading on the screen supported by scientific research. The mastery detail of how to regard type is fully developed by Mary C. Dyson who has devoted her academic life to searching for answers and convey designers of her findings.

This article is about how to design Cyrillic characters Њ, Љ, Ђ, and Ћ (upright caps and lowercase; italics are not covered here).

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The Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, offers a Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design. Top…

The idea was to start a dialogue between typography and design. All conditions were met except that it just did not happen

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Dots and commas, numbers in English, bullet, interpunct, and operators

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Fonts and Layout for Global Scripts

Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType

Type design must consider not only the shape of the letters, but also the white space around them, which is essential for the ease of reading.