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Typearture @typearture.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Gimme is one of my favourite experiments: A font family pushing color font technology and letterforms to their limits. And then infuse it with plenty of storytelling. A new version was just launched at FutureFonts, which included a small writeup. www.futurefonts.com/typearture/g...

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Colourful Constraints - Future Fonts

Working with color fonts has been quite a journey: When I started sketching Gimme over 7 years ago I had previously created color glyphs and single styles, but creating an entire family which covers a...

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Typearture @typearture.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Now thats a nice surprise: Adobe Illustrator supports both COLRv0 and COLRV1 color fonts! Other Creative Cloud apps still trail behind, so it will be a while until we'll see support in InDesign and After Effects. Still: Highly unexpected and great to see. Many props to the Adobe dev team!

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Typearture @typearture.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's almost time for the @fontstand.com conference in The Hague: For those who will be there, hope to meet you this Friday and Saturday! It's looking like a great lineup with some exciting topics.

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Typearture @typearture.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Last week two of my works were shown at the DEMO festival in Amsterdam, for which I couldn't resist doing some hand-drawn animation. It was great to see them side-to-side with amazing work from animators from all across the world. And the large screens were a nice bonus of course!

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Typearture @typearture.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Making color fonts is an ever-changing thing: you keep reinventing! For the 4th version of Gimme Constructo at FutureFonts, I'm moving towards upright italics, and it seems to be a lively choice. Still plenty to do, but I can't wait to fill them with color and make the variable!

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Typearture @typearture.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

After dropping Twitter two years ago, Instagram should be next in line sooner or later. So it's time to for another transfer!

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