FontLists are collections of related fonts and families on the FontShop website, curated by the FontShop Research Team. As the typefaces are hand selected for the FontLists and are continuously updated, certain collections can grow too big and need to be reshuffled. This recently happened with our Sans/Serif Companions FontList, and today I decided to split the main list into three handy collections: Text Faces, Slab Serifs, and Display Type. Time to get reacquainted with these very practical type systems.
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Choose the best Dutch newspaper ad of the past year, and you may win €10,000 in cash! Deadline is March 10th.
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The most recent upgrade of the FontShop website – which amongst others saw the addition of Norway to the available shop regions – seems to have caused a glitch in the system. Every time you access fontshop.com please make sure to select the correct region at the bottom of the web page! We will notify you as soon as this minor default has been resolved.
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To keep you going while I am gathering all the information for the Dutch Best Designed Books 2009 competition, here’s already the participants and winner of that other Dutch book contest, the Mooiste Boekomslag van 2010 (The Most Beautiful Book Cover 2010). This year the prize was won by the designer trio Dog and Pony who designed the cover for Wat is de wat by Dave Eggers.
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We have a busy week ahead – Tuesday is the third Shapeshifters evening, with Marius Watz, an artist working with visual abstraction through generative systems; and on Thursday Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, Ghent (department of the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst) presents for the sixth time Bold Italic, an entire day devoted to graphic design in Vooruit, Gent. From 10:30 to 17:00 one can attend lectures and presentations by international speakers.
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A more diverse and beautiful web is about to unfold. The latest release of the FontFont® typeface library marks the beginning of a new era for typography — FSI FontShop® International is introducing the first ever stand-alone FontFonts for the web. Finally web designers can use professional typefaces for their projects aside from system fonts or webfont services. This long-awaited step enables a more seamless and effective transition from print design to the web.
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When adding samples to the FontShop galleries we often come across work that somehow managed to slip under our radar. A tweet by Bart van der Griendt led me to the visual identity for OKRA, which won a red dot award for outstanding design in the category Corporate Design. It was designed by Dutch design agency Koeweiden Postma, who used Bryant 2 exclusively for the corporate branding.
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The new Gallery tabs on fontshop.com were introduced at the beginning of the year, and already our collection of expanded sample graphics and examples of the type in use in the real world is rapidly growing. Besides providing a valuable source of inspiration, the Gallery function can be used to put your own design work in the spotlight. |
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Two men in dark grey sweaters and goatees, discussing typography and lettering. Photo by Ilse Geeraerts
On February 2nd, FontShop’s Ilse Geeraerts and myself attended the second session of Shapeshifters 2010 in the Beursschouwburg, Brussels. The program that evening included presentations by lettering artist and type designer Timothy Donaldson, and decode.unicode.org collaborator Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen. The quality presentations and affability of both speakers made this a very interesting and entertaining evening.
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Next Tuesday, February 2, the new episode of Shapeshifters 2010 - Source is of special interest for people interested in typography, calligraphy, language, and the alphabet. The two speakers that evening will be Timothy Donaldson, a lettering artist and type designer who prosaically calls himself a “letter worker”; and Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen, who since five years has been working on one of the most fascinating current type-related projects – decodeunicode.org. |
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