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New typeface: Lufta by Arina Shokareva! Lufta is a friendly slab serif which will work equally great on reflective clothing patches, in a deep tech startup identity, or used for DIY projects Lufta comes in 3 styles: Normal, Rounded, and Doubled https://t.co/yUkaHs4RJE
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New typeface: Feature by @commercialtype! A collection of three optical sizes, Time-ish at first glance https://t.co/zNlALLPsEq
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Joined release with TypeMates, Yuni Grotesque by Philipp Neumeyer! 6 weights and 12 styles, supporting extended Latin and Cyrillic “It’s the St. Peter at the typographic pearly gates—the end of the Samsara of narrow sans serifs!” says Yuni's author https://t.co/YvjsrI6vaf
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Sharing some guides you can resort to when there’s no way to consult a typographer https://t.co/FrSqvgry8d
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Talked to a type designer and font detective Thomas Phinney about the cases when a typography expert might be useful in legal disputes https://t.co/CydYbofhAh
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Designer and ESH Gruppa partner Violetta Postnova read Noemi Biasetton’s book Superstorm: Design and Politics in the Age of Information and tells about the relationship between politics and design in the modern world https://t.co/1On5KGsnz5
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In Erik Spiekermann’s book Stop Stealing Sheep, there’s a typography exercise where you match six typefaces with six pairs of shoes We wondered how people outside the world of typography — those working in fashion — might approach the same task! https://t.co/6hzCpOVyVe
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Talked to a TUMO Center graphic designer and Granshan competition winner about how they see the current state of Armenian typography https://t.co/6aVoC3dvhw
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Joined release with TypeMates! Gregory collection by Jakob Runge welcomes a charismatic sans serif with 24 styles https://t.co/T3MILfPZQ2
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In the latest episode of our Manual, we explore how to use periods and spaces in abbreviations of Latin words and phrases! https://t.co/JZc7rWNkgb
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Talked to Igor Gurovich, the co-founder of Ostengruppe and Arbeitskollective, and the Academic Supervisor of the Design School program at the Russian-Armenian University, about karma-damaging projects, and how often design education should change https://t.co/UcTecQzM88
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Sharing an (incomplete) list of emojis whose meaning is not obvious, confusing, or could change depending on the platform or region https://t.co/PR4e0bbvER
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New typeface: Repose by Rüdiger! A complex-sounding collection of six variations of a single light weight, Repose contains two sub-collections: Quadrospace (pretty much like Monospace) and Prop (with a more traditional approach to kerning) https://t.co/N4U9L5gDYD
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New typeface on our storefront: Opague by Rüdiger! A distilled postmodern geometric sans, Opague forces itself into the spaces where it’s needed — whether on takeaway lightbox menus or sophisticated wine lists, interface designs or headlines https://t.co/9GYJ6XZAkG
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Spoke to Alex Slobzheninov, the founder of the newly launched store, Contemporary Type, about why type designers need curators, how long it takes for a font to go bad, and a decentralised approach to licensing https://t.co/djmN8irwdS
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Together with a website focused on various grammatical and broader language issues, https://t.co/GYrxZ3iECZ, we've created a series dedicated to emoji! In our first episode, we talked about emoji from a technological perspective! https://t.co/oOLUZzYWt9
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Spoke with the founder of Ardis Publishers, which published works by Soviet authors banned in the Soviet Union — about designing in a non-Soviet way and her experience with Soviet censorship, to better understand modern-day repressive practices https://t.co/dC6SsDfd4d
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On March 27, we sat down with Fer Cozzi, Kai Bernau, and Philipp Neumeyer for a conversation about the responsibilities of musicians and type designers — and whether comparing type revivals to cover songs is fair. Here’s the text version of our talk! https://t.co/pDLwr8n8dc
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