Type Design

TypeTalk: Supersize My Font Families, Please!

Gone are the days when font choices were regular, italic, and bold. Today you can use super families of fonts that contain variations in width, weight, style, and more. Here are some tips for using super families.

Fonts on Friday: Influenced by the '70s

Bookmania and Herbie

Fonts on Friday: Crafty Handmade Fonts

Knit, Sown, Grown, Bent, and more!

Reviving a Victorian-American Typeface

Cristoforo and H.P. Lovecraft come together in Kickstarter project

Font Bureau's Readability Series Goes Retail

Previously only available to private clients, now available to public

Fonts on Friday: Nothing Fancy

Regular and Prosto

Fonts on Friday: Decorative Display Type

Fancy Antique Display, Metropolis 1920, Muirside

The "Original" Helvetica

Font Bureau releases Neue Haas Grotesk

Case Study: Designing a New Logo

What goes into developing a new typographic logo? Where do you start? How do you know what works — and what doesn't? Follow along as the company Extensis refreshes its branding with a new logotype.

Fonts on Friday: Geometry and Line

Frustro, Lineo, and Moav

A Font "Dating" Game

Test your skills as a type matchmaker.

Fonts on Friday: Three indie typefaces to add to your collection

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque

Fonts on Friday: Three Indie Typefaces to Add to Your Collection

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque

TypeTalk: Investigating Insouciant

On the surface, James Montalbano's Insouciant font is a charming, sprightly typeface that belies the technical rigor required to create it. Here Montalbano explains how this 10-weight family came to be and why upright script faces are challenging to design.

Robert Slimbach: Type Designer for the Digital Age

Influential font "Original" celebrates 25 years at Adobe.

Pentagram Designs New Windows Logo

Paula Scher reframes the Microsoft icon with the look and feel of a window.

Linotype Film Premieres in NY, Travels to Other Screens

This type-centric documentary comes to San Francisco on February 21 and Seattle on March 7.

TypeTalk: The Anatomy of a Character

You've known the names of letters and numbers since you were a little kid. But did you realize that every part of those characters have names, too? Knowing this terminology will help you better understand typefaces and communicate about design. Now you can download a high-res PDF of the anatomy chart, too!

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.