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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 type.today/en/journal/luf…

New typeface: Zhivov! Typeface based on Old Church Slavonic letterforms — an experiment by CSTM Fonts, the results of which may be useful not only to designers but also to philologists More about Zhivov: type.today/en/journal/zhi…

New typeface: Prepis by Luboslav Boyanov! Prepis is inspired by medieval Cyrillic manuscripts, the typeface reinterprets the traditional Ustav and Skoropis styles that have in recent years been co-opted by nationalist and far-right groups tomorrow.type.today/en/prepis

New typeface: Feature by @commercialtype! A collection of three optical sizes, Time-ish at first glance type.today/en/journal/fea…

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 type.today/en/journal/yun…

Sharing some guides you can resort to when there’s no way to consult a typographer type.today/en/journal/man…

Talked to a type designer and font detective Thomas Phinney about the cases when a typography expert might be useful in legal disputes type.today/en/journal/tom…

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 type.today/en/journal/sup…

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! type.today/en/journal/fon…

Talked to a TUMO Center graphic designer and Granshan competition winner about how they see the current state of Armenian typography type.today/en/journal/arm…

Joined release with TypeMates! Gregory collection by Jakob Runge welcomes a charismatic sans serif with 24 styles type.today/en/journal/gre…

In the latest episode of our Manual, we explore how to use periods and spaces in abbreviations of Latin words and phrases! type.today/en/journal/lat…

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 type.today/en/journal/gur…

Sharing an (incomplete) list of emojis whose meaning is not obvious, confusing, or could change depending on the platform or region type.today/en/journal/emo…

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) type.today/en/journal/rep…

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 type.today/en/journal/opa…

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 type.today/en/journal/con…

Together with a website focused on various grammatical and broader language issues, Gramota.ru, we've created a series dedicated to emoji! In our first episode, we talked about emoji from a technological perspective! type.today/en/journal/emo…

New typeface on our storefront: Factor A Mono by Interval Type! type.today/en/journal/fac…

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 type.today/en/journal/ard…