Transitional & Modern Type Families

 Now we continue with the Transitional genre of typography, so-called because of its intermediate position between…

Sans Serif: Gothic and Grotesque

Why do they call Sans Serif fonts ‘Grotesque’ or ‘Gothic’ ? Find out and meet some…

Slab Serif: Egyptian Type Styles

 Continuing the history of typography we now discover many sans serif type faces and how they…

45 FREE Commercial HALLOWEEN FONTS

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Type Forms Through the Centuries

One must keep in mind that although typefaces may have come into use at a particular…

History of Typography: Script fonts, scripts, quills, brush and calligraphic

 In part seven of our History of Type, we’ll look at the script, brush, italic and…

Gallery of Typography: 300 Years of Type Faces, Fonts, and the people behind them

I have completely updated and refined our legendary typography series, originally authored by Thomas Phinney. This…

A new era of type-design control and power for graphic & web designers from FontLab

FontLab is an extraordinary font creation tool — and now, FontLab VI for Mac and Windows…

FFF #10 : Penny Candy WOW, typography mistakes, Jordan’s 3D typography and more

In this edition, we’re pushing this year’s number of encounters way beyond any years in the…

FFF #9 : Groundbreaking typography and lettering books you need to see!

Here’s the latest groundbreaking typography book from Alex, that follows the design philosophy that fonts and…