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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Lisa Picarille As a heated battle for font control rages among systems-software developers, applications developers, font vendors and printer manufacturers, users are caught in a fallout of uncertainty over […]

A new font OurType Eva is designed by Merel Matzinger and Fred Smeijers is inspired by Eva Zeisel's ceramics was reviewed. Eva is congenial, simple, clean and understated and a well-thought out typographic tool.

Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones design fonts. You've seen their work; it's all around you-on billboards and computer screens, on the pages of books and magazines. U.S. Census forms are [...]

Letters composed of cavorting naked figures have been around since Peter Flotner's 1534 'Human Alphabet,' an idea that Dutch bad boy Anton Beeke updated in 1970 (at right). Today, the [...]

Several products designed to ease printing woes for Windows 3.0 users will soon be available, adding to an already plentiful market. ZSoft Corp. Publisher's Type Foundry 1.5 for Windows 3.0, […]

By Diane Bernard After years of keeping its technology under wraps, Adobe Systems Inc. will license a core of its PostScript font formula to other vendors to provide users with […]

A Font Strategy of Another Type Quark has also been busy enhancing its approach to fonts. With QuarkXPress' upgrade to version 2.1, PostScript fonts are rendered smoothly on the screen […]

Clippings TypeStyler: Broderbund has delayed until May the release of TypeStyler, its type-customization program, in order to include ten fonts from Agfa Compugraphic. This generous addition will raise the price […]

By Diane Bernard Hewlett-Packard Co. is expected to enter the font-software arena this week with the release of a font-scaling package that helps users more efficiently budget memory space, company […]