Fonts News

Cutting-Edge Conference for Print and Digital Publishing

Whether you're looking for the latest tips on publishing to tablets and ebooks, want details on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6, or just need tips to optimize your print workflow, PEPCON is the place. The conference takes place in San Francisco on May 14-16.

What's That Web Font?

WhatFont is a free tool that works with your Web browser to identify webfonts.

When It's Safe to Use Free Fonts

Type foundry FontShop explains the ins and outs of font licensing in a free, downloadable guide.

Type Is Everywhere

Help to preserve the vernacular typography that makes a place unique by supporting this Kickstarter project.

Try These Type Webinars from Ilene Strizver

If your print or online projects use type, you can benefit from this series of webinars designed by CreativePro.com columnist and type expert Ilene Strizver.

Hand-Lettering Lovers, Rejoice

Lisa Congdon (known for her Collection a Day and her work as an illustrator/artist) is at it again. She's committed to creating and posting an example of hand lettering for every day in 2012.

Daily Drawings Reach One Thousand

Professional illustrator/designer Chris Piascik has drawn something every weekday for the last four years. The project has brought him personal and professional satisfaction, and soon there'll even be a book compiling all 1,000 of the daily drawings, many of which are heavy on type. Take a look.

Starry, Starry Type

Gravilux 2.0 is an app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that lets you render text in stars and then affect that text with the gravitational forces of an alternate univers. It's art, it's a game, it's Gravilux!

New Alphabets Bring Organic Looks to Your Projects

Give a human touch to your designs with SketchType's alphabets. There are three volumes of hand-drawn type sets for a total of 67 different alphabets. You can also buy any of the alphabets individually.

European Design Conference Comes to America

The first TYPO conference held in the United States will be in San Francisco on April 5 and 6, 2012.

What Do You Think of the Creative Cloud?

Adobe's pushing a subscription model for its software and services, sweetening the deal with access to its Touch apps, webfonts, tablet publishing, and 18 desktop applications. But is it right for you?

Photoshop Plug-in Adds Google Webfonts

The Extensis WebInk Web Font plug-in for Photoshop expands its offering with 288 webfonts from Google.

Make Monograms the Easy Way

Inexpensive fonts let you create custom monograms and cyphers from any letter combination. The styles range from traditional to childlike.

Be a Type Designer in New Game

These font games are not just fun--they're educational! At least, that's what you can tell yourself when you realize you've been playing them for an hour.

Typographic Rugs Are Real Treasures

Whether you're a fancier of fonts, connoisseur of comic books, or an appreciator of art, you'll require these rugs from Linus Dean.

If You Like Type then You Better Put It on a Ring

Engrave anything you like on high-quality rings. You can choose from any of eight trendy typefaces or send in your own design.

Use Webfonts in Photoshop for Free

Do you use Photoshop for website mock-ups? If so, check out the new Web Font plug-in for Photoshop from Extensis. It works with the company's WebINK webfont service to give you a trouble-free (and legal) Web-design workflow from start to finish.

Add Rare Wood Type Faces to Your Digital Designs

Wood Type Revival finds old wood type, prints them, turns the results into fonts, and sells the digital typefaces for very reasonable prices.

Download Second Dot-Font Book for Free

Topics in the free book by John D. Berry include "the pleasure of old type books," "warm modernism," "industrial cool," and "where type designs come from."

Updates to Font Explorer X Pro

Monotype Imaging made changes to all three versions of its FontExplorer X Pro font manager: FontExplorer X Pro 3.1 for Macintosh, 2.3 for Windows, and FontExplorer X Server 1.6.