Manual: Brackets
Angle brackets and <> are not the same thing; brackets happen to be caps — though they are never italic (but don’t quote us on that!). Please welcome the second part of our Manual.
Read moreType Digest, December 2019
Meme-inspired type by David Rudnick, neural network producing type, type designers on strike, custom type for Russian state and Ukrainian capital city, and 12 more type news of last December.
Read moreBenoît Bodhuin: "Offering some kind of human filling in typography"
How non-conventional letterforms are born from strict limitations, why it is not a good idea to design type in unfamiliar script, and what design robots are incapable of. Ilya Ruderman talked with Benoît Bodhuin, type and graphic designer based in Nantes, France.
Read moreDanilo Kuchum: “Sans is safe”
Danilo Kuchum (@khankuchum) starred at our Instagram account this August. We chatted about the vibe of Russian type foundries, the ambiguity of design trends, and the importance of TikTok.
Read moreGauge in use: Free Flight exhibition catalogue
Free Flight, a catalogue for the eponymous exhibition at Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) has been awarded by The Society of Typographic Arts. The book, designed by Konstantin Eremenko, employs several styles of the Gauge Type Family. We asked Konstantin about his criteria for choosing a typeface, how his impression of Gauge has changed over the years, and the importance of Alexander Tarbeev’s workshop.
Read moreType Digest, November 2019
Typography of a steamroller, two super-variable fonts, a Netflix documentary on type design, and 13 more type news this November, commented by the authors of Tomorrow, our new font catalogue.
Read moreIlya Ruderman: “It's not the ownership of the file, but its actual application”
The fonts from the Tomorrow catalogue have a separate licensing policy, which we call it the package model. What is it and why is it more suitable for today’s media? Where does the pricing come from? Why do we just give away the font files? Darya Yarzhambek, the Journal’s senior editor, talks to Ilya Ruderman, type today’s co-founder
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Maria Doreuli: “I avoid any lists of criteria as much as I can”
What is the key to quality Cyrillic? How American clients are different from Russian ones? Why making a custom font for less than $15k is unprofitable? We talked to Maria Doreuli, founder of Contrast Foundry.
Read moreCSTM Xprmntl has moved!
CSTM Xprmntl 01 and CSTM Xprmntl 02 are now on sale at tomorrow.type.today
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