New fonts from Type Network for Typekit Marketplace

We feel fortunate to play a role in supporting a worldwide network of type designers and typographers. Few groups embrace this collective sense of agency as completely as Type Network, which we welcomed as one of our founding Typekit Marketplace partners last fall.

Type Network is an alliance of independent foundries and type designers from all over the world. Your Typekit Marketplace purchases support these independent designers, and we’re delighted to share even more fonts from these foundries with you today.

Lipton Letter Design

Richard Lipton originally designed Meno back in 1994, and this updated version takes advantage of the intervening 20-plus years of …

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Sally Kerrigan · February 1, 2017 · Fonts on Typekit

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New fonts! @fontbureau, @milesnewlyn, @richard_lipton, & @djrrb, all from @TypeNetwork and now in our Marketplace.… https://t.co/NDOR03vmWs

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Type@Cooper West 2017 programming kicks off tonight

Meghan Arnold · January 31, 2017 · Type Community

Have you made “attend more type events” one of your 2017 resolutions? Lucky for you there are a lot of them happening in San Francisco this year. Recently we told you about the TypeThursday meetups, but if lectures are more your style, you won’t want to miss the series Type@Cooper West has in store this year.

Jessica Hische launches the 2017 talks with “Art as Therapy” tonight from 6–7:30 p.m. Her talk sold out quickly, but there will be a dozen great lectures this year.

The winter series also includes “Highlights of a Lifelong Obsession with Letterforms” from Jim Parkinson…

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Sites We Like: Green Chameleon and Zaengle

Molly Doane · January 27, 2017 · Using Type

Sites We Like is all about profiling excellent examples of web type in use. In this week’s post we’re sharing two design agency sites that really practice what we preach!

Green Chameleon

First up we have UK-based agency Green Chameleon. The uppercase-only Bebas Neue immediately demands attention with its condensed yet elegant capitals. We also can’t stop playing with the interactive logo that really makes this site stand out.

The site’s content is set in the modern sans serif Neuzeit Grotesk. The clean lines of this typeface allow the images on the page to speak for themselves.

Zaengle

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Sites We Like: Women’s March and Love & Victory

Sally Kerrigan · January 13, 2017 · Using Type

We never get tired of seeing the websites people put together with Squarespace, especially when they choose fonts from our library! Here are two sites we noticed — and we love what they’ve done here.

Women’s March

Proxima Nova is a great choice when you’re working with a lot of bold color blocks, as Women’s March does on their site. It’s a classic sans serif and popular for good reason — it’s almost impossible to make it hard to read. And clarity goes a long, long way for a site that aims to organize.

Body text is in Adobe Garamond, a serif with …

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Join us at TypeThursday SF this winter

Meghan Arnold · January 12, 2017 · Type Community

After launching last fall, TypeThursday’s San Francisco chapter has gained a strong following and kicks off its 2017 meetups next week on Thursday, January 19 from 6–8 p.m. at the San Francisco Center for the Book.

Photo Credit: Tad Wagner

If you’re working on your own type designs, hand-lettering projects, or type-centric graphics, bring them by for friendly feedback from others in the community. Or just stop by to learn more about type and the people who use it.

You can register for next week’s event here. Use the code metoo to save 20% on admission.

Make sure to mark your calendars …

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Introducing Source Serif 2.0

Frank Grießhammer · January 10, 2017 · Making Type Introducing Source Serif 2.0

Version 2.0 of Source Serif is here! The work on this release has been a long time coming, and represents a major step forward. You can get this newest version of Source Serif from Typekit for web & sync, and its development files are available open source on Github.

What has changed?

If you are only using Source Serif to set texts in English, probably not much. But if you look behind the scenes, quite a lot!

The most obvious update is the upgraded character set, which has grown from Adobe Latin 3 to Adobe Latin 4. What does this mean? Apart …

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An interview with Nicole Dotin of Process Type Foundry

Mandy Brown · August 25, 2011 · Type Community

Tim Brown, Typekit’s Type Manager, interviews Nicole Dotin, typeface designer and partner at Process Type Foundry, on being a generalist, the wild web of web fonts, the future of type design, and more.

Tim Brown: Hi Nicole. Introduce yourself!

Nicole Dotin: Well, I’m a typeface designer and part owner of the Process Type Foundry. Although I started designing type in 2006 after attending the University of Reading, I’m only now finishing my first typeface which is set to be released this year. Before that, I taught typography and web design at the university level, I’ve worked as a web and graphic designer, and I …

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Choosing and pairing typefaces for cookbooks

Michael Stinson and Rachel Elnar · February 12, 2016 Using Type

We teach a cookbook design class at TypeEd, which demonstrates how to set up a book proposal to pitch to a publisher and guides designers on how to format different types of content along the way. A common question we hear at the beginning of class is, “How do you choose typefaces?”

There are many ways of setting up typographic systems, and we learned early on that choosing and pairing typefaces can be compared to the classical approach to cooking: Choose ingredients that will serve the overall flavor of the dish as well as complement one another. Too many ingredients, and the flavors conflict. …

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From Broadsides to Websites: Miguel Sousa brings wood type to digital life with HWT Gothic Round

Nicole Miñoza · October 9, 2013 Making Type

Last week, we talked about the adventures of Adobe type designer Miguel Sousa as he traveled the US conducting research on his sabbatical project, a revival of a historic wood typeface. He carefully paged through gorgeously produced antique specimen books and studied the shopworn surfaces of giant wooden letters stained with the ghosts of ink from bygone eras. Miguel printed with rare alphabets hewn from nineteenth-century timber, fueling his imagination as he worked to craft a typeface that would smoothly meld historical charm with advanced typographic technology.

The result of Miguel’s summer sabbatical journey—along with many months spent on research and type design and production …

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