Tag Archives: Type foundries

15 August 1
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Meet Your Type – a field guide to typography

FontShop created this fully illustrated typography booklet with useful info in collaboration with students at Brigham Young University. The booklet is available for free to download along with several other docs filled with typography tips and tutorials from experts.

Why settle for casual flirtation when looking for a long-lasting relationship? Finding the perfect match is easy if you know the rules. Meet Your Type will help you overcome common obstacles, and keep your heart thumping for your one true love: typography.

Brigham Young University, Communication design, Design, FontShop, Graphic design, Mass media, Resources, Type foundries, Typography, Visual arts

26 August 1
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Face behind typeface: Alejandro Paul

Under - Design, Typography

Buffet Script is based on fantastic calligraphy by Alf Becker. Designers: Alf Becker, Alejandro Paul.

Buffet Script by Alejandro Paul is based on Alf Becker's calligraphy from 1940's.

Latin American graphic design, illustration and typography have its own style and flavor. Myfonts.com recently interviewed Alejandro Paul, a Buenos Aires (Argentina) based type designer who setup Sudtipos foundry with three other associates. Read the interesting interview here. It is always great to see who is behind some of the loveliest fonts that we work with.

Alejandro Paul, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Calligraphy, Font, Graphic design, Mass media, MyFonts, printing, Publishing, Sudtipos foundry, type designer, Type foundries, Typesetting, Typography, Visual arts

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FF Seria Arabic

Under - Resources, Typography

Based on Arabic Nasekh style, Fontshop adds their first Arabic typeface FF Seria Arabic to their ever growing collection of fonts called ‘FontFont’. Designed by Martin Majoor and Pascal Zoghbi, FF Seria Arabic is an improved version of Sada.

The best part is:

FF Seria Arabic supports Arabic, Farsi and Urdu Languages and offers the choice between Arabic hanging figures, Indic figures, Farsi figures and Urdu Figures.

Read the interesting article at the Fontfeed.