Typography 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.

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!

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.

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."

Turn Letters Into Sketches with Fontify

Fontify is a free app that uses letters from 18 typefaces to build illustrations. You can save your sketches as high-res PDFs.

Rag Time Is Perfect Game for Picky Typographers

If a sloppy paragraph rag drives you crazy but tinny computer music doesn't, Rag Time is the type game for you.

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.

Fire Up FontDropper 1000 and Test WebINK Typefaces Online

For a quick and free way to preview any WebINK web font, try the new FontDropper 1000 bookmarklet.

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.

Temporary Tattoos Go Designer

They're not just for kids anymore, at least not if you get your temp tats from Tattly, the brainchild of designer and entrepreneur swissmiss.

Virtual Printing Press Moves from KickStarter Project to iPad App

It's not the same thing as setting your own metal type and printing letterpress designs, but LetterMpress, the new iPad app, lets you design with vintage wood type on a virtual printing press, then import the results into your preferred graphics or design software.

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.