Teeline Fonts
Today, we are pleased to welcome Teeline Fonts to Fontstand with a small collection of crafted display families.
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Notes from the Fontstand event in Milan
We teamed up with the Biennale Internazionale Milano to put on a unique typography event.
Paul Geumho Seok (1955–2024)
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Paul Geumho Seok, the founder and chairman of the Korean type foundry Sandoll.
Non-user-centric web spaces for marginalised users
Yehwan Song’s work ripples through our collective imagination bringing experiences of a digital word that appears alive. Alimenting our ideas of a humanised mediated space touch and interaction resolve in utopian situations, or refuse our input and produce uncontrolled responses.
Talking about history: Graphisme en France no. 29
When Marsha Emanuel, then head of graphic design at the French Ministry of Culture, launched Graphisme en France in 1994, she conceived it as an annual calendar of events around graphic design, a booklet whose purpose was to “help weave the necessary links between the various players in France and their potential audiences”, providing a space where the growing and lively French graphic design scene could become visible.
Aeroplan
This typeface is a contemporary serif family that subtly references a lesser-known chapter in typographic history. But those who select it will surely do so because of the peculiar connecting strokes in Aeroplan’s italics – as in the “a” and “n” above. Those are nice, but Aeroplan’s got even more to offer.
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For a long time, history presented a purely male perspective. Research in the field of type design now increasingly focuses on women, who were already active in type production at the beginning of the 20th century without achieving visibility. The exhibition Same Bold Stories? aims to critically research the Klingspor Museum’s historical type-related collection (1900–1950) for these female positions and to supplement the historiography of type design with their biographies and works.
Ewan Clayton and Riccardo Olocco present a three-day workshop this May in Brighton (UK), during which participants shall reconstruct Gutenberg’s Textura letterforms with calligraphic tools. Calligraphers and designers are invited to explore this unexplored matter.
La Police has launched a ;new website. You might already be familiar with its Footnotes publication, a periodical dedicated to type design & typography. Thanks to this site update, you can now order back issues or buy a subscription for three Footnotes issues, starting with the latest issue (that’s issue D, which is also new).
For a long time, Eckehart SchumacherGebler was one of the most significant actors in German printing. He built a towering legacy by running several companies, establishing societies, and founding a museum. On December 17th, he passed away, aged 88. The Offizin Haag-Dugulin published an obituary (in German).