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The latest edition from julian rothenstein's redstone press is a treasure trove of modernist typography. Roanne bell takes a look at abz JULIAN ROTHENSTEIN IS A GREAT collector,' declares the [...]

Late in the previous century, I wrote an article titled 'Typography and TV Captioning' (PRINT, January/February 1989) that explored the hamstrung ugliness of closed-captioning used to make TV and video [...]

I grew up in the hick province of New Brunswick. (Eastern Canada. Think Mississippi, but with coarse French accents.) While the other kids my age were out running the streets [...]

So you want to create your own typeface? In the 500 or so years since Gutenberg invented movable type, perhaps a quarter million typefaces have been developed in the Western [...]

Consumers rarely buy anything on faith. We routinely take cars out of the lot for test spins before we sign any papers. Hopeful customers continually cram the fitting rooms of [...]

Read a traffic sign, a magazine ad, a novel or a toddler's book. The style of the letters you see will be quite different in each of these sites. Chances [...]

- US-based Monotype Imaging has introduced a new typeface family, called Soho, which was designed by Sebastian Lester of the firm's UK subsidiary. Monotype head of type design in the [...]

Frau Jenson refuses to be rushed, taking up to a year on her unconventional font designs, which draw inspiration from Germany's rich typographic history. Wiebke Lang meets up with her [...]

Stephan Muller's near obsession with collecting typefaces led the Berlin-based graphic designer from diversion - via Lineto and major contracts - to commercial accomplishment, says Hannah Booth Stephan Muller collects [...]

Adobe is to drop PostScript Type 1 fonts this year, but has given no date to end its support of the first universal digital font format. It is instead moving [...]

This year's ATypI conference was one not to miss for those printers interested in typography By Andy Benedek Considering that the supreme model of our capital letters are those carved [...]

US-based MyFonts is an online service for 'trying, finding and buying fonts'. And with over 26,000 fonts stored, if you can't find what you're after here then there's no hope [...]

The Cavendish Gallery of Print and Typography is an interesting, if slightly shoddy, journey through the history of printing and type in the UK. On offer is a slice of [...]

Sumner Stone is back. Not that he's ever been away, but in the past decade he has kept a low profile, designing fonts for clients in the Bay Area, pursuing [...]

MVB Verdigris (12 fonts; $159) Mark van Bronkhorst/MVB Fonts, 2003 (mvbfonts.com) At first glance, MVB Verdigris, the newest release from MVB Fonts, appears unremarkable. It's vaguely familiar. One can easily [...]

Icelandic designer Stefan Kjartansson has developed this clean font, in collaboration with Rod Cavazos of PSY/OPS, from a logo he designed in 2001 for his Atlanta-based studio Armchair Media. Of [...]

Priori is a major new text font from Jonathan Barnbrook which has been in development for 18 months. Like many of Barnbrook's typeface designs, Priori is based on his interest [...]

Available through Union Fonts at www.unionfonts.com, Nova was created by designer Martin Fewell who describes it as 'a friendly techno typeface'. Fewell was, apparently, inspired by an illustration he had [...]

Agfa recently began marketing the seventh edition of a CD-ROM with the firm's extensive digital typefont library. This 'digital typefoundry,' going back to the time when Agfa absorbed the Compugraphic [...]