Fonts

Type Luminaries Speak on PRI

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, and Tracy Honn discuss typefaces past and present in a recent episode of "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Thanks to the Internet, you can listen to it right now!

New Fonts from Independent Foundries

These two new typefaces are thoughtfully designed. Premiéra was created with small sizes in mind; Ingeborg is a Modern face that's readable at any size.

Mega Prizes for Veer's Logo Contest

Retailer Veer will give a grand prize package worth almost $8,000 to the winning re-creation of the Veer logo using real-world objects or materials.

Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools

One free online tool lets you easily extract colors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and convert folders full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts -- everyone's favorites!

TypeTalk: Find Figure Styles in OpenType Fonts

To designers' delight, many typefaces include several kinds of numbers: oldstyle, lining, tabular, and proportional. But how do you discover which fonts have which styles?

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.

Extensis Universal Type Server 2 Improves Font Compliance Management, Updates OS Compatibility

The 2.1 update to the font server adds functionality, administrator enhancements, and compatibility with the Apple Snow Leopard and Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems.

Mrs Eaves Gets a Hubby

Type foundry Émigré has released the typefaces Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern.

19 Top Combos of the 19 Top Typefaces

Would you pair Helvetica with Garamond? What about Minion with Gill Sans or FF Din with Baskerville? Check out the list and let us know what you think!

TypeStyler for Mac OS X Finally Ships

TypeStyler, which creates special effects using PostScript and TrueType fonts, now runs natively on Intel Macs in both Leopard and Snow Leopard, as well as on PowerPC Macs running Tiger or Leopard.

Free For All: An Awesome Assortment

Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!

TypeTalk: Times Roman vs Times New Roman

What's old, what's new, and what's what when you're talking about Times?

New Typeface Family Well-Suited to Newspapers, Periodicals

Monotype Library's Ysobel Pro typeface suite has the soft, inviting letter shapes of Century Schoolbook but contrasts these with more angular serifs.

One Good Kern Deserves Another

Evening out the spaces between characters is a matter of finding the right rhythm, then going with the flow.

P22 Gets Spooky

This chilling new font is evocative of the type in horror films and posters.

Greek Font Inspired by Roman Column

Monumenta Pro is a serif titling face available as Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets. It comes with interesting alternates for each language.

Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game

The vocabulary of type is mysterious at best, and nowhere is this more true than in how typefaces are labeled. Yet knowing how typefaces are named and categorized has very practical benefits.

Les Kerning Disses Mrs Eaves

Extensis plays on sibling rivalry in a new series of videos promoting its Suitcase Fusion 2 font-management software. It's all fun and games until someone falls asleep.

TypeTalk: Best Headline Breaks

When headline and subheads are more than one line long, grab the reins and make those breaks manually. Here's what to look for.

Linotype FontExplorer X Pro Now Compatible with Snow Leopard

The new version 2.0.3 of Monotype Imaging's font manager is compatible with Apple’s Snow Leopard OS (Mac OS X 10.6). The update is free to registered users.