Today is a groundbreaking day in FontShop’s 25 year history, the most important one since our formation. The US typeface company Monotype just announced that they have acquired FontShop and the FontFont library. The acquisition package includes the head office in Berlin as well as the FontFont typeface library, the US subsidiary in San Francisco fontshop.com, and the German distributor, FontShop AG. Monotype acquires the FontFonts of founder Erik Spiekermann directly from him, including all usage and publication rights. All of his bestsellers FF Meta, FF Info, FF Unit, FF Govan will remain part of the FontFont library. Spiekermann will assist Monotype as typographical consultant in the future. Further information on the transaction is provided in a detailed press release from Monotype.
Författare: STG
Stockholms Typografiska Gille vill höja kvaliteten på svenska grafiska produkter. Vi debatterar och engagerar oss i utvecklingen inom vårt yrkesområde, studerar och samtalar om konsekvenserna av ny teknik. Vi kritiserar dålig grafisk kvalitet. Genom dessa aktiviteter hoppas vi kunna skapa en större medvetenhet hos såväl producenter av svenska grafiska produkter, beställare av grafisk form och typografi som hos den läsande konsumenten.
Discover.typography by H&Co
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Creative and Detailed Typography by Greg Coulton
This great collection of detailed typography is by designer and illustrator Greg Coulton. After 12 years of working as a graphic designer he decided it was time to follow his dream of being a freelance illustrator, currently he works from his own studio. Greg has an online shop on his website, check it out via the link at the bottom of this article.
Creative Hand Drawn Typography by Jay Roeder
Hands On The Sigmund Freud Typeface: Making A Font For Your Shrink | Smashing Magazine
Skriv som Sigmund Freud!
Handwritten text shows a personal side of its author, a side that is not easy to put into words and that contrasts with the standardized look of digital communication. This contrast and “aura” is perhaps what makes handwriting fonts so popular. As a typographer, I love handwriting, and in this article I’d like to share a hands-on overview of my creation process of a handwriting font.
Over the past four years, I’ve completed three typefaces inspired by handwriting. I started with the digitization of Albert Einstein’s handwriting and continued with Conspired Lovers, a font based on my own love-letter writing. In 2013, I ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a font based on Sigmund Freud’s handwriting. The public interest in the project was overwhelming, and the Sigmund Freud typeface became the first typeface to be reviewed in the Wall Street Journal:
For those who regret what keyboards and touch screens have done to their penmanship, typographer Harald Geisler has an answer…
Hands On The Sigmund Freud Typeface: Making A Font For Your Shrink | Smashing Magazine.