#type-design tag

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Cattivo - I Love Typography Ltd

Infused with history, the slab cannot help but suggest the old West's frontier clichés, for such ephemera as classic wanted posters, political broadsides, cautionary warning signs, and more generic commercial applications. Cattivo is a brand-new 18-font family that, when used in any weight and size, cuts through nostalgic predictability and provides a welcome alternative to such popular Egyptian-style slab serifs as Stymie and Memphis.

Typography

fromItsnicethat

1 week ago

Type designer Arthur Calame treats letters like "soft material to be sculpted"

Arthur Calame designs custom typefaces using unique project-specific tools and draws inspiration from everyday culture, blending craft and varied disciplines into human, imperfect letterforms.

Intellectual property law

fromMatthewbutterick

1 month ago

The copyrightability of fonts revisited: Matthew Butterick

Digital fonts likely lack U.S. copyright protection; designers should not assume copyright registrations will succeed.

#typography

fromwww.nytimes.com

1 month ago

Typography

Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department?

fromCreative Bloq

4 months ago

Typography

Why Spotify hired a dedicated typographer

fromItsnicethat

6 months ago

Typography

Tausend by Fontwerk is a new grotesque with a thousand ideas behind it

fromType Worship: Inspirational Typography & Lettering

7 months ago

Typography

typeworship

Typography

fromItsnicethat

8 months ago

How Eliott Grunewald's foundry OTT signals a shift in the creative industry

The design industry's preference for expressive display fonts is reshaping typographic trends and distribution.

Typography

fromPangram Pangram Foundry

8 months ago

The anatomy of the letterform

Typography is fundamentally a system with structured components that define letterforms.

fromwww.nytimes.com

1 month ago

Typography

Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department?

fromCreative Bloq

4 months ago

Typography

Why Spotify hired a dedicated typographer

fromItsnicethat

6 months ago

Typography

Tausend by Fontwerk is a new grotesque with a thousand ideas behind it

fromType Worship: Inspirational Typography & Lettering

7 months ago

Typography

typeworship

fromItsnicethat

8 months ago

Typography

How Eliott Grunewald's foundry OTT signals a shift in the creative industry

fromPangram Pangram Foundry

8 months ago

Typography

The anatomy of the letterform

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design studios are making fonts

Custom type has become central to branding, offering control, originality, and ownership while reshaping the culture and economy of type design.

Typography

fromFast Company

3 months ago

Gen Z killed cursive, so Docusign gave us a new way to sign our names

Docusign updated its digital signature styles to reflect declining cursive use and introduce historically inspired, personality-driven script options.

#experimental-typography

fromItsnicethat

4 months ago