Typographica
@typographica.org
A review of #lettering and #typography. Since 2002. Posts by editor @stewf.com. Primarily on Mastodon with many from the type community: https://typo.social/@typographica
If we happen to be in #SaltLakeCity during our wedding anniversary, of course I’m getting a bouquet at Art Floral, now celebrating their own 75th. Their neon sign went up in 1958 and they kept it glowing since. Get flowers & let ‘em know you love their sign! At night: flic.kr/p/pBzMd9 #Signs #Neon
‘How to Create Typefaces’ book /// The revised and updated and second edition of ‘How to Create Typefaces,’ by Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer, and José Scaglione, is now available, and we’re excited! Get yours: shop.itemzero.com/products/how... #typography #fonts #graphicdesign #fontsky
The biggest neon shop in the San Francisco Bay Area also happens to be a dazzling showroom of vintage signs. But it’s only open to the public once a year: at the Neon Speaks Festival. Get tix before they sell out: www.eventbrite.com/e/neon-works... #NeonSigns #Neon #Signs #Oakland #SFBA #NeonSpeaks
Neon Works Shop Tour 9/20
Once-a-year chance to take the Neon Works shop tour. Includes photography, tube bending demo, and vintage neon sign boneyard.
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Big fan of CJ Dunn’s new Dunbar Design Repository: cjtype.com/dunbar-desig... Like other digital type specimens it’s a big long scroll full of samples and motion, but it’s as informational as it is showy. #TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens #Typography #Fonts
Dunbar Design Repository
A Versatile Geometric Typeface System
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Still a few spots for the class I’m teaching at @letterformarchive.org on Saturday: letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash... Followed by @slye.bsky.social on Sunday: letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash... #Typography #TypeSelection #Fonts #Workshop
A Crash Course in Type Selection, Part 1: Exploring and Choosing Type | Letterform Archive
Learn techniques to make finding the right font the best part of any job.
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“The promise of generative AI is that it can learn the underlying meta-structures of the training data, so that it can recompose and extrapolate them in ways that are novel or not represented well in the training data.
Q. Is it enjoyable to have to create multiple weight variations and italics for each font that you create? “This is the work. Is all of it equally enjoyable? No, but it is what trains skills and shapes us as people who make this particular class of thing.
“One of the many truly offensive things to me about AI-driven artistic processes is that they divorce the ostensible artist from their influences. All art draws on and builds on previous work in one way or another, and an artist ought to be aware of their influences, and ideally share information
Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)
Hi Everyone, The Google Fonts contributor guidelines pointed me to this forum as a safe place to get feedback on my type designs.
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Introducing alphabit.studio! Built for creating and editing fonts for small screens, embedded devices, retro systems, and anywhere bitmap fonts still make the most sense. Import real formats, edit with proper pixel control, and export cleanly. Enjoy, and get in touch if you spot anything lacking.
Alphabit Studio
Design monochrome bitmap glyphs with variable-width editing and validation-aware export flows.
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Carlo Bassani, Il Pittore di Caratteri : Alfabeti Artistici in Colore, Milano, 1890 archive.org/details/gri_... #Calligraphy #Lettering #Alphabets #1890s #19thCentury
Sam Berlow of @thetypefounders.bsky.social interviewed by type.today journal: type.today/en/journal/t.... Good questions and pretty transparent answers. This is the most I’ve read about the company’s business structure. #TypeIndustry #TheTypeFounders #TypeDesign #Fonts
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We collect fonts that could be used to type texts now. Fonts that meet modern technical requirements and tune in to the spirit of time. We develop collection of modern typography design instruments. W...
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We’re seeking someone to lead our digitization program: jobs.gusto.com/postings/let... #Museums #Digitization #GLAM #GLAMJobs
Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive
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We're looking for an Art Director to shape the visual identity of our trade art-book publishing program. The role will be onsite at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Read more and apply: jobs.gusto.com/postings/let... #BookDesign #ArtDirector #DesignJobs
Just when I thought I knew all the cool stuff about Winold Reiss, I learn about M.A.C. (Modern Art Collector), his 11-issue magazine about commercial art from 1915–1918. #WinoldReiss
VOLUMES Design Library opens on June 4! mailchi.mp/16874fb48506... Congrats to Michael Ellsworth and his team for creating something really special in Portland. @laureola.bsky.social and I were lucky to get a preview last week. #Portland #VolumesDesignLibrary #GraphicDesign #Libraries
There should be a type history scholarship or award named after Nicolete Gray. Can’t count the times I’ve found a long-sought answer or a fascinating new question in her books. Not only “19th century ornamented typefaces”, but also “History of Lettering” w/ its appendix charts.
Speak of the devil! This is on in Detroit right now. Have fun! 🤠
Just back from a quick trip to Portland. One of the finer signs we saw on the way home: www.flickr.com/photos/stewf... #Signs #Neon #NeonSigns #EugeneOR
J. J. Newberry Co. sign, Eugene, OR
Four-stroke neon upright script with small caps. The beauty of this letter design is there is a common baseline that can sit on top of those windows – no flat vs. round letters to negotiate (all overs...
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ATypI has been posting videos from last year’s conference. For anyone, like me, who is an Arabic outsider, I can highly recommend this session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ts... Panels don’t always work well, but this one had such a wide array of perspectives and insights. I learned so much!
From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type (panel) | ATypI 2025 Copenhagen
YouTube video by ATypI
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Last year I was honored to give the 50th Dwiggins Lecture for the Society of Printers in Boston. The recording is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LE... I try to capture what gives WAD’s type so much life, and the contemporary designers whose work also has those attributes. #TypeDesign #WADwiggins
Stephen Coles: Warmth & Snap: What New Type Owes to W.A. Dwiggins
YouTube video by Society of Printers
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Join us in thanking @kontour.bsky.social for being a Fonts In Use sponsor! Ever since her Cholla fontsinuse.com/typefaces/19... in 1999 for Emigre, Sibylle Hagmann has been innovating in type design. Her latest is Riant Display: kontour.com/typefaces/ri... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors
No one has supported Fonts In Use longer than @marksimonson.bsky.social! Mark recently issued a block-rockin’ script: Heckle. Read all about it: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors
Cheers to @typotheque.com, a Fonts In Use core sponsor since 2024! You can decide how they organize their next type specimen by playing their Font Expressiveness Game: www.typotheque.com/blog/font-ex... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors
Typotheque: Font Expressiveness Game
We’re creating a new type specimen and need your help ranking 200+ fonts by expressiveness — from most neutral to most characterful. Play pairwise comparison game and you might spot some unreleased ty...
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Fonts In Use is made possible by sponsors like @dardenstudio.bsky.social, who has supported the project for over five years! Right now they’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joshua Darden’s Omnes: www.dardenstudio.com/omnes#info #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors
Will Bradley’s advice to the young typographer: “Set type as if you wanted to read it afterward. Every day have a little more joy in your work, and be happy and daring.” Source: Eugene M. Ettenberg, Type for Books and Advertising, 1947 archive.org/details/dli....
At the conclusion of my first year of teaching with the Type West program at @letterformarchive.org, the class of 2019 produced this picture – which I still think is amazing. typewest2019.com/about/
Last year, we conducted an independent survey focused on font use and licensing. More than 1,300 respondents participated from a wide community of designers and other font users, and we have now published a short article plus the full survey results on Fontstand News: fontstand.com/news/design-...
What font users actually want: findings from Fontstand 2025 survey
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