Distinguished type designer and calligrapher Robert Slimbach is the 2018 recipient of the Frederic W. Goudy Award, given to outstanding practitioners in type design and its related fields. Presented ...

Exploring the best type foundries is the most effective way to discover bespoke, thoughtfully crafted typography for your projects. While there are endless free fonts available online, sometimes a ...

Tré Seals plans to ease the world out of its Helvetica obsession one font at a time. After becoming frustrated by the monotony of the graphic design industry, he started his own foundry, Vocal Type, ...

Tre Seals specializes in bold type. The 28-year-old founder of Washington, D.C., font foundry VocalType finds inspiration in historical protest signs, social-change graphics, and Black history. His ...

When Chuck Bigelow was honored with RIT’s Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, Steve Matteson ’88 (printing) was there, with backstage access that sparked his ambitions. As a then-student, Matteson ...

Fonts may live in our computers, but every outline of every letter, number, and symbol in a typeface is originally crafted by human hand. In the 1800s this happened via a copper plate engraving ...

Monotype recently introduced a new typeface called Ambiguity, created by its Type Director, Charles Nix. Its unusual proportions deliberately challenge typographical conventions, going wide where a ...

Editor’s note: In Sean Adams’s new book, The Designer’s Dictionary of Type, he examines 48 of the most important typefaces, their history, and how they can be put to work. While plenty of these ...

When Thomas Rickner decided he wanted to be a type designer after a lecture on the history of Baskerville at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the mid-1980s, his typography professor had some ...

The master of optical type and genius behind typefaces such as Univers, Avenir, and Frutiger, Adrian Frutiger passed away earlier this month on September 10 at the age of 87. If it wasn’t for Frutiger ...

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