Type on the web

TypeTogether, New Font Releases

http://www.type-together.com/index.php
We are happy to announce the extension of two of our font families and the release of a new typeface. Karmina Sans, which follows the steps of its successful award winner cousin, Karmina Serif, shares the same technical excellence and it achieves similar stylistic features, but the new sans serif version proposes a much more versatile tool for editorial designers. Karmina Sans has six different weights with their matching italics, from light to heavy, serving continuous text to headlines to small text. Bree, a sans serif with reminiscences of handwriting that has been featured in the most important best selling lists of distributors for 2008, has been upgraded with a set of five oblique fonts, making it 10 weights in total. Ronnia got eight additional fonts which makes a total of 28, now featuring thin and semibold weights. Ronnia is a humanistic sans serif that has been chosen by some of the most prestigious designers and publications, including The Irish Times (Ireland) and The Big Issue (England). For more information visit www.type-together.com.
(Posted by Veronika Burian)

Autodidakt

http://www.autodidakt.se
Fresh type from Sweden. Autodidakt.se is the website of Göran Söderström and his type design studio, which started out in 2006.
(Posted by Goran Soderstrom)

Type Conference in Spain

www.congresotipografia.com
The International Type Conference takes place every two years in Valencia (Spain). It started for the first time in 2004. It has a three days programme that, mainly, consists in lectures, exhibitions, workshops and short academic reports. Conferences have been hosted at the Superior School of Art and Design in Valencia. It has as main aims to create a space to share experiences and draw strategies up to the design development, in this case, through typography. As well, to generate a place to exhange and discuss ideas.
(Posted by Andreu Balius Planelles)

Hiba Studio

www.hibastudio.com
HibaStudio is a bilingual website (Arabic, English) interested in Arabic calligraphy and computerized font design. It is owned and maintained by type designer Hassan Abu Afash from Gaza, Palestine. It was launched in 2007. This site gives many services including: - Custom Arabic fonts design and has many collection of Arabic type design and typographic projects of Hasan Abu Afash - Converting fonts to Unicode and OpenType. - Converting fonts from Mac to the PC. - Expanding fonts designed to cover all languages that us the Arabic script: Arabic, Persian, Urdu ... etc., according to the Unicode 5.
(Posted by Hasan Abu Afash)

New fonts from TypeTogether

www.type-together.com/index.php
TypeTogether is proud to announce the recent release of two new font families. Cora, designed by Bart Blubaugh, is a sans serif with an experimental bent, offering a large x-height, some contrast of stroke weight, and capitals inspired by classical lettering. And Bree, designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, is a fluid upright italic with a set of alternate letters when a more classical look is desired. It is based on TypeTogether's logotype. For more details please go to www.type-together.com.
(Posted by Veronika Burian)

29letters

www.29letters.com
29letters website is the collection of Arabic type design and typographic projects of Pascal Zoghbi (Lebanon). Pascal graduated in July 2006 with a Master of Design from the Type & Media course at the Royal Academy of Arts [kabk] in The Hague. In 2002 he received his Bachelor Degree of Arts in Graphic design from Notre Dame University in Lebanon. Prior to his postgraduate studies, he worked in Beirut for several years as a graphic designer in print and web design. He is an independent type and graphic designer since August 2006 and he is currently a part-time instructor teaching type design and typography courses at AUB (American University of Beirut), NDU (Notre Dame University) and LAU (Lebanese American University). In the website you can read about all the recent Arabic type projects as well as articles about Arabic type and Arabic type workshops.
(Posted by Pascal Zoghbi)

Lebedev's Mandership sections

www.artlebedev.com/mandership/
Mandership is mostly concerned with graphic and industrial design, interface engineering, typography, semiotics, and visualization. The project has been running since 1997.
(Posted by Marat Dyatko)

Tipos Latinos: A new space for typography

Tipos Latinos

www.tiposlatinos.com
We are proud to announce the launch of Tipos Latinos, a new space for Latin American type design and typography. Our goal is to continue the effort that started with the 2004 and 2006 Letras Latinas Biennals. Hence, we have undertaken the organization of Tipos Latinos 2008, Third Biennal of Latin American Type Design and Typography. The TL2008 Biennal will be held between April and July 2008 in 8 countries: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, Perú, Uruguay and Venezuela. There will be an exhibition of selected Latin American typefaces and graphic design projects associated with them in all of the host cities. The TL2008 exhibitions will be complemented with additional educational activities such as lectures, workshops and seminars. We are working to document the complete event and make it available to the international type community. Tipos Latinos is an initiative of Miguel Catopodis, Pablo Cosgaya, Natalia Fernández, Héctor Gatti, Patricio Gatti, César Mordacci, Darío Muhafara, Mariana Pariani, Marcela Romero, José Scaglione, Eduardo Tunni (Argentina); Luciano Cardinali and Cecilia Consolo (Brasil); Manuel Figueroa (Chile); Iván Castiblanco, Hernán Huertas, John Naranjo, César Puertas and Sonia Rubio (Colombia); Francisco Calles and Juan Manuel Arboleyda (México); Candelaria Moreno (Perú); Felicia de Azevedo, Diego Carnales, Alejandro di Candia, Vicente Lamónaca and Gustavo Wojciechowski (Uruguay); Juan Carlos Darias and Domingo Villalba (Venezuela) We hope colleagues and organizations interested in the initiative and its aims will join Tipos Latinos, adding their participation and support. For more information, you can contact us at: info@tiposlatinos.com
(Posted by Pablo Cosgaya)

What's in a word? See the secret life of type.

This is an interesting presentation on typography from the Vancouver Film School posted on Yahoo! Video. Enjoy! -THG
(Posted by Thomas Gilmore)

tipo | Supplying type to everybody

www.tipo.net.ar
We are glad to present “tipo”, a new Latin American type foundry with an ambitious objective: to supply digital types of high quality to everybody. Take a deep look to our web catalog or contact us: info@tipo.net.ar
(Posted by Eduardo Tunni)

Fraterdeus Letters & Images

www.fraterdeus.com/lettering/
Examples of letterform design, calligraphy and pages from my small collection of 16th C Books. Also photos from Spain and elsewhere, politics, poetry, philosophy, rants, raves, and many other topics! Ciao!
(Posted by Peter Fraterdeus)

New Fonts From Arabetics

arabetics.com
Arabetics, a small Arabic type foundry based in New York, has released nine new type families including 30 new fonts. All fonts designs are based on the same open clear characteristics of its original three Mutamathil type styles. These unique styles illustrate the ease, legibility and power of non-calligraphic, simplified, Arabetic type designs. Text samples in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Kurdish, and Pashtu are displayed in arabetics.com along with full glyph sets. As of the beginning of 2005 Arabetics fonts are now available for licensing through both myfonts.com and arabetics.com.
(Posted by Saad Abulhab)

Ihsan Type Foundry

www.ihsandesign.com/
An interesting site that showcases the fonts and design work of a young and upcoming designer in San Francisco. Its is one of the few independant arabic type foundry (in the process of being established). The site's bridges nicely an Islamic art aesthetic with a contemporary international design look. Have a look (it's still in testing mode).
(Posted by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares)

Adhesiontext.com

www.adhesiontext.com
Adhesiontext® is a dynamic text tool created by Miguel Sousa who generates a dummy text paragraph with the submitted character set. Very handy to provide limited character set texts in several pseudo-languages. These can be particularly useful for typeface designers and font developers, especially in the early work stages. Miguel Sousa is a Portuguese graphic designer with a big interest in Typography and Typeface Design. He is currently a student of the MA in Typeface Design at The University of Reading (2004-2005) .
(Posted by Jean-Francois Porchez)

Fontsmith.com

www.fontsmith.com
Fontsmith type foundry Jason Smith established the Fontsmith type foundry in 1997, thus concluding a typographic apprenticeship which began several years earlier at the Monotype drawing office in Surrey. Since then Fontsmith has steadily gained a reputation for producing work which Jason describes as "Very human and full of character", bringing style and personality to the business of crafting 'typographic identity'. Perhaps best known outside design circles for bespoke typography created for clients such as Channel 4, The Post Office and Powergen, Fontsmith is currently focussing on expanding its library of "fresh and exclusive" downloadable fonts.
(Posted by Jason Smith)

letterbeeld

www.letterbeeld.nl
Since December 2002 this web site gives information about numbers on football shirts seen from a typographic point of view. Recently I have added a section about the use of shirt numbers for branding, with several examples of letter torture as well as innovative experiments.
(Posted by Sander Neijnens)

Type-Expertise

www.type-expertise.com
Type-Expertise (Lyon, France) has announced the patent-pending Type-Expertise Universal Font Classification System. The system has been conceived to meet the needs not only of font users in the creative and communications sectors, but also font designers and vendors who require a better way to help their customers choose and purchase fonts, as well as application and operating system developers, who have an inherent need to help their users communicate more effectively.
(Posted by Denis Ravizza)

TypeOff

www.typeoff.com
Typography students from the HfG Offenbach in Germany created the German/English website www.typeoff.com to publish their work online. Currently, aside from a few news bits and articles, the site displays initial concepts for 14 different typefaces. These represent their contributions to the contemporary type scene. The designs have one eye on the citiy's typographic past, and the other on their own futures. None of these typefaces are currently available for sale (or as free downloads), but many of the students hope to submit finalized designs to commercial foundries in the future.
(Posted by Daniel Reynolds)

Fontlab Ltd. Typography Tools

www.pyrus.com
Tools for font editing, conversion, design and manipulation. Also has forums for discussion of applications and issues such as EULA embedding and font personalization.
(Posted by Theodore Harrison)

porchez.com/ateliertypo

www.porchez.com/ateliertypo/?c=atelier+uqam
From the 26th April to 1st May 2004. Uqam, Montréal, Canada. Type Design Workshop (Atelier) with around 20 students. The objective will be to design at least 2 typefaces in two very different styles (in two different groups): one based on modularity, the other on writing (calligraphy). Everyday during the process will be published. Mostly in French, but the images will be understood by all I presume.
(Posted by Jean-Francois Porchez)

arabetics

arabetics.com
This site displays samples glyphs of the “Mutamathil” (or unified and symmetric)typefaces. The Mutamathil type style is a new technology-friendly Arabetic (Arabic based)type style employing glyphs/characters representative of the extended Arabic characters, which are generally symmetric to facilitate bi-directional use, uniform to render a single glyph per letter, and independent to compose non-cursive text strings.
(Posted by Saad Abulhab)

Israeli design student posts animated letter project

personal.cet.ac.il/rois/abc-small.mov
Roi Sabarov is a 4th year student in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. He has sent us a note to say that he just recently finished an experimental typography project that might be of interest to ATypI members. It is entitled 'Letter Flow: Type, space & motion in alphabetical order' an interesting continuous three-dimensional animation of the Latin alphabet in which the letters mutate into each other, set to the Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello by Bach. You can find this project at: http://personal.cet.ac.il/rois/abc-small.mov It is a compact version of the project. Since it is about 5MB you should expect loading to take a little while. Enjoy! Please feel free to comment back to the artist: Roi Sabarov, rois@netvision.net.il.
(Posted by Cynthia Batty)

Experimental Typeface Design Workshop by Lucas Nijs (of Belgium), at the Lahti Institute of Design

lahti.grafitron.com/?day=1
Lucas Nijs is conducting an Experimental Typeface Design workshop at the Lahti Institute of Design in Finland. The teachers at Lahti work very hard to bring the most cutting-edge design and typography to their students, and this is one of a series of classes to expose the students to new ideas and technologies (in this case, FontLab). This website link will take you to the first of eleven days of images from this Typeface Design workshop. There are some very exciting and unusual items that will display when you click on them – don't miss the 'breathing font' on Day 3! Enjoy the site!
(Posted by Cynthia Batty)

Society of Biblical Literature Font Foundation

www.sbl-site.org/Resources/default.aspx
The Society of Biblical Literature (Atlanta) has released the first of a series of scholarly fonts for Biblical studies, developed for the SBL Font Foundation by Tiro Typeworks. The SBL Hebrew typeface, now available for download in a public beta programme, was the topic of John Hudson's presentation 'And God created text...' at the 2003 ATypI conference in Vancouver.
(Posted by John Hudson)

International Student Poster Competition, Nagoya, Japan

www.visualogue.com/design_fair/en/student_poster/index.html
A cash prize of 1 million yen (approximately 8,000 US dollars) will be presented to the winning student in the International Student Poster Competition being held as part of the 2003 ICOGRADA World Congress (taking place from 8-11 October 2003). This website gives details of the competition and application forms downloadable as PDF files. Email enquiries are also welcome at compe@visualogue.com
(Posted by Sharon Moncur)

ATypI France blog

www.typographe.com
We've just registered it as url for the ATypI France blog (in French). We expect to move this collaborative blog to a new server soon. Open to all ATypI members who able to post in French! Nous venons juste d'enregistrer typographe.com comme url pour le blog collaboratif de la section française de l'ATypI. Nous espérons nous déplacer sur un nouveau serveur dans peu de temps. Ouvert à tous les membres de l'ATypI. Contactez-nous.
(Posted by Jean-Francois Porchez)

ATypI in the news, Iran

www.irna.com/en/head/030119101002.ehe.shtml
The Islamic Republic News Agency carries a story about the bukva:raz! competition and exhibition, now on show at the UN headquarters in New York. Mostly press release stuff, but nice to know that someone is paying attention.
(Posted by John Hudson)

Teknoel - Flash Type Demo

www.teknoel.com/show/?file=/theory/metrics/arc.htm
Shows interesting potential for 3D interactive typesetting.
(Posted by Hrant Papazian)

Typohile forum today: Is ATypI elitist?

www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/4493.html?1042809175
Discussion started about ATypI there, perhaps interested to contribute? As member to share your experience or non member.
(Posted by Jean-Francois Porchez)

New Series

www.new-series.org/?old_articles
A small and well-formed site with (curently) four interesting pieces about type and publishing. Site by Andy Crewdson.
(Posted by Mark Barratt)

FarbTon Konzept + Design

www.farbton.de
Information on Jet Set Sans and DTL HEIN GAS, both Corporate Type projects by Albert-Jan Pool. View under "referenzen, produkte, hausschriften". German language only.
(Posted by Albert-Jan Pool)

Typographica

www.typographi.ca
Typographica is daily journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design. It is a collaborative effort run by Joshua Lurie-Terrell, Stephen Coles and Matthew Bardram. In fact anybody can react to items posted. Many info, all the time. A true competitor to ATypI website in some positive way!
(Posted by Anonymous User)

Kidstype

www.textmatters.com/kidstype
Gathered here are the results of testing different typefaces and typesetting parameters with young children in classrooms.
(Posted by Mark Barratt)

Lorem Ipsum

www.lipsum.com/
This Dummy text generator seems a cool tool for Latin dummy texts, obviously! Thanks toDE for the link.
(Posted by reviewer)

A font resource

http://www.myfonts.com
Lots and lots of information about fonts. This is basically a place to buy fonts with lots of added value.
(Posted by Mark Barratt)