Font Industry News Headlines
Preview All Your Fonts At Once With Flipping Typical
Posted by Josh Lowensohn on May 12, 2009
Depending on how much design work you've done, and what kind of software you're using, you probably have some idea of which fonts you have installed and what they look like. If you don't, there's a wonderfully simple Web app called Flipping Typical that gives you a WYSIWYG heads up of all of them at once.
Add New Fonts To Use With Office
Posted by Font River on November 20, 2008
You're probably already familiar with how to change the font style of the text you're working on in your Office XP documents. But when the fonts you always use start to feel over-used, you may want to add new fonts.
20 Superb Christmas Fonts and Dingbats
Posted by Font River on December 12, 2007
Are you looking for funny Christmas fonts and dingbats to decorate a wonderful holiday? We have gathered a wide variety of funny fonts and dingbats to pep up your designs. Make your own matching Christmas cards, invitations, favors bags, place cards, napkin rings, and much more!
Hot Summer Fonts
Posted by Font River on July 31, 2007
Take a look at some of the best fonts added this summer at FontRiver.com. The compilation contains 10 stunning fonts and they can be downloaded for free!
Top 10 Handsome Fonts (April 2007 Issue)
Posted by Font River on April 12, 2007
We're pleased to introduce the winners of Top 10 Handsome Fonts (April 2007 Issue). It wasn't going to be easy. How could it be, with a huge amount of typefaces to choose from?
Choosing and using type
Posted by Daniel Will-Harris on March 06, 2007
Type. In your lifetime you've seen billions of letters and millions of words, yet you might never have consciously noticed the typefaces you read. Type is important because it's an unconscious persuader. It attracts attention, sets the style and tone of a document, colors how readers interpret the words, and defines the feeling of the page - usually without the reader recognizing a particular typeface.
Jamille Released at TypeCulture
Posted by TypeCulture on February 16, 2007
TypeCulture announces the inclusion of the Jamille typeface family into its collection of OpenType fonts. Jamille is just the right design for anyone who enjoys using classic "Didone" types, but is looking for something different from the traditional Bodoni or Didot.
Writing for the big screen: Professor designs widely recognized type
Posted by Mike LaBella on December 05, 2006
HAVERHILL - Lance Hidy and his artist wife, Cindia Sanford, were at the movies last winter when Hidy noticed a poster advertising "The Da Vinci Code," a major motion picture based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown. Hidy barely noticed the actors on the poster. Instead, his eyes were riveted on his own handiwork. The lettering on the poster was in a typeface he created years ago and named Penumbra.
Linotype introduces classic office font families with revolutionary uniformity
Posted by Linotype on November 22, 2006
Linotype introduces Office Alliance, the office communicator's dream team: four classic office typefaces reworked for easy weight-switching within each family while avoiding layout adjustments. Each optimized font - Metro Office, Trump Mediaeval Office, Neuzeit Office and Times Europa Office - remains based on the original sans serif or serif typeface. Yet each has also been reworked just enough so its four weights (Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) all share an identical width and can interact smoothly with each other.
Times change of typeface for modern era
Posted by Dominic Ponsford on November 15, 2006
The Times is changing its typeface as of Monday to reflect the paper's change to tabloid format in November 2003. The new typeface has been specially designed and is called Times Modern. It is said to "encapsulate the paper's heritage while adapting to the demands of the new compact format." It is the first new Times typeface for four years and replaces Times Classic.
