Type Design News

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.

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.

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.

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."

New Font Creates Charts and Graphs for You

With the Chartwell OpenType fonts, you can create custom pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs as easily as typing "1, 2, 3".

Web-Only Series Covers Typography, Photography, More

"Off Book" is a little gem of a program from PBS Arts. It's available only on the Web, which hopefully means no pledge breaks.

Love Helvetica? Love Card Games?

Then you need Helevticards, a high-style deck of cards you can use in every situation where you'd use like a traditional deck.

Avast, Me Hearties! It's a New Typeface!

"Prosperity" (from Brian Sooy's Altered Ego) is an OpenType script that gives your designs a hand-lettered, historical look.

Save Wood Type with this Kickstarter Project

For as little as $20, you can get a specimen sheet hand-printed with the woodtype you helped buy, thanks to the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative's Kickstarter project.

Take Your Inner Child to the Letter Playground

The letterPLAYGROUND website is a great source for typographic inspiration. But it's even better when you join in and play along.

New iPad App Teaches Typography

This $1.99 app helps you understand and even play with typographic forms. The theory is that you'll then better understand historically important type.

Design New Fonts or Modify Existing Ones with New App

The new font editor, called Glyphs, claims that its "smart and simple" approach helps you draw fonts and modify existing typefaces with ease.

Wake Up In Style with this Alarm Clock App

For under a buck, you can be woken by a famous graphic designer. The crouwelclock app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad is from the Design Museum.

Play the International System Of TYpographic Picture Education Game

Do you know Gerd Arntz? This German illustrator helped create a system of pictograms that is part of all designer's cultural heritage. Now you can learn about him in a free app for the iPhone and iPad.

Eye Candy for Mobile Type Geeks

Type a message into Dance Writer, an app for the iPhone and iPad, and the message will be converted into a flowing sequence of human bodies in the shape of the characters you entered.