Category: News

I try not to have heroes. I don’t see the benefit. How do you explain the downsides—which every person must have somewhere—when you idolize someone? Still, there are people that one looks up to. As designers, there are projects that you look up to, too. As a type designer living in Germany, I don’t think…

Last year, the city of Berlin unveiled a new image campaign entitled beBerlin. Much blog chatter ensued regarding the merits of this concept, but I am not interested in rehashing any of that. It suffices to say that the thing that impressed me most of all was the custom typeface commissioned for the whole thing,…

Dez Squeeze is a Heavyweight Display with knockout punch and Resonant Voice. Dezcom Typefaces is happy to announce the release of its first commercial typeface and plans several more releases in the near future. Dez Squeeze Fat is a full-figured display face. It is generous enough in weight and width to make you a knockout!…

Moving out of my apartment in Offenbach today has been more jolting than I expected. This isn’t because I will miss the apartment, although it was quite nice. Neither will I will miss Offenbach, since I’m not leaving the city yet. At the end of next week, I’ll be moving into new apartment that just…

Until the middle of May, all customers who purchase any font licenses at Linotype.com can selection an option in the check-out process and get the Malabar Heavy Italic font absolutely free. That’s right, buy any font, and Linotype will throw in Malabar Heavy Italic, too! What beter way to try out part of my new…

Over on Facebook, I just read about the co-release by Fountain and PSY/OPS of Catacumba. Aside from the typeface itself, which offeres really sweet variety, I particularly like the tagline at the bottom of the description text blurb in the Facebook posting, “designed by Rui Abreu and mastered by PSY/OPS.” I think that every foundry…

Part of the fun of having a blog like this one is the e-mail that occasionally pops up in my inbox from people I have never met. Some of these corresponders ask for font suggestions, have questions about my typefaces, or wonder which schools they should consider if they want to study typeface or graphic…

Most of you know that I live in two places, Berlin and Offenbach. After returning to Germany from the UK in September, I signed a sublet lease for an apartment in Offenbach. I had hoped that by the end if this sublet’s lease, I’d be able to move to Berlin full-time. Well, I am sad…

So, how ’bout Gudrun Zapf von Hesse? She was one of the first female typeface designers, and I think that she is still up there among the best of any living practitioners. Her excellent mid-century Diotima just got an update. Check it out!

If you are looking for something to do for an hour and 37 minutes this weekend, check out a lecture that Process Type Foundry gave at the Walker Art Center this past week. Eric Olson and Nicole Dotin are clearly visible there, live and in color. Here’s the YouTube link. You can also find the…

Over the last few days, discussion has begun about how a new Indian rupee currency symbol could be designed. The operative word, of course, is new. The Indian rupee already has a symbol, U+208A. The symbol is some sort of combination of a capital R and a lowercase s. Granted, this already-existing symbol does bring…

Even before iLoveTypography started promoting the new typography podcast Read Between the Leading, I was already a fan. Such is the magic of the new interweb. But these Savannah students are great, and each of their episodes is better than the one before. Visit their site today, but afterwards, just save yourself the time and…

The text on this Helvetica cake is NSFW. But I would so like to give it what it is asking for anyway.