Gimme is one of my favourite experiments: A font family pushing color font technology and letterforms to their limits. And then infuse it with plenty of storytelling. A new version was just launched at FutureFonts, which included a small writeup. www.futurefonts.com/typearture/g...

Colourful Constraints - Future Fonts

Working with color fonts has been quite a journey: When I started sketching Gimme over 7 years ago I had previously created color glyphs and single styles, but creating an entire family which covers a...

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Niklaas nu ook in de winkel volgens @speld.nl ! www.typearture.com/niklaas-het-...

Niklaas, het chocoladeletter lettertype - Typearture

Een chocoladeletter lettertype! Het kleuren font Niklaas brengt de lekkernij van 5 december naar je beeldscherm, klaar voor Sinterklaas!

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De Speld@speld.nl · 11mo ago

Verdere krimpflatie door cacaoprijzen: steeds meer chocoladeleestekens in de schappen

Now thats a nice surprise: Adobe Illustrator supports both COLRv0 and COLRV1 color fonts! Other Creative Cloud apps still trail behind, so it will be a while until we'll see support in InDesign and After Effects. Still: Highly unexpected and great to see. Many props to the Adobe dev team!

It's almost time for the @fontstand.com conference in The Hague: For those who will be there, hope to meet you this Friday and Saturday! It's looking like a great lineup with some exciting topics.

Last week two of my works were shown at the DEMO festival in Amsterdam, for which I couldn't resist doing some hand-drawn animation. It was great to see them side-to-side with amazing work from animators from all across the world. And the large screens were a nice bonus of course!

Making color fonts is an ever-changing thing: you keep reinventing! For the 4th version of Gimme Constructo at FutureFonts, I'm moving towards upright italics, and it seems to be a lively choice. Still plenty to do, but I can't wait to fill them with color and make the variable!

After dropping Twitter two years ago, Instagram should be next in line sooner or later. So it's time to for another transfer!