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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a former Type West instructor (and current Letterform Archive board member), I’m incredibly happy about the growth of this program and the quality of the student work over the years. I’ll be there tonight and I’m looking forward to celebrating this milestone with everyone!

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Type For All! Ten Years of Type West | Letterform Archive

Come celebrate our students from 31 countries and their quirky, beautiful, and (yes!) practical typefaces.

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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 15/09/2026

Fontstand Cooperative now exists. 🚀 After two years of work, it’s officially incorporated in the Netherlands. We’ve opened applications for independent type foundries. Read more, and consider joining us. fontstand.com/news/design-...

Rafał Buchner’s composition for the 2026 Fontstand Conference in Berlin, photographed by Norman Posselt.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 18/08/2026

Smartest thing It’s Nice That has done: hire @goodspeed.bsky.social. Dumbest thing It’s Nice That has done: take Meta money to do an advertorial puff piece on the IG rebrand. Anyway, here’s another good Goodspeed article: www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

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Elizabeth Goodspeed on the branding challenge behind Mayor Zohran’s new municipal grocery stores

Everyone wants to know who will win New York City’s grocery store RFP – the more interesting question is what public identities should actually do.

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Stephen Coles @stewf.com · 04/08/2026

If we happen to be in #SaltLakeCity during our wedding anniversary, of course I’m getting a bouquet at Art Floral, now celebrating their own 75th. Their neon sign went up in 1958 and they kept it glowing since. Get flowers & let ‘em know you love their sign! At night: flic.kr/p/pBzMd9 #Signs #Neon

Photo of a sign in two parts: a painter’s palette with the word “ART” in pink neon, and a rectangular background with the word “Floral” in green neon script.

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TypeTogether @typetogether.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

‘How to Create Typefaces’ book /// The revised and updated and second edition of ‘How to Create Typefaces,’ by Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer, and José Scaglione, is now available, and we’re excited! Get yours: shop.itemzero.com/products/how... #typography #fonts #graphicdesign #fontsky

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Typographica @typographica.org · 09/07/2026

The biggest neon shop in the San Francisco Bay Area also happens to be a dazzling showroom of vintage signs. But it’s only open to the public once a year: at the Neon Speaks Festival. Get tix before they sell out: www.eventbrite.com/e/neon-works... #NeonSigns #Neon #Signs #Oakland #SFBA #NeonSpeaks

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Neon Works Shop Tour 9/20

Once-a-year chance to take the Neon Works shop tour. Includes photography, tube bending demo, and vintage neon sign boneyard.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 07/07/2026

Big fan of CJ Dunn’s new Dunbar Design Repository: cjtype.com/dunbar-desig... Like other digital type specimens it’s a big long scroll full of samples and motion, but it’s as informational as it is showy. #TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens #Typography #Fonts

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Dunbar Design Repository

A Versatile Geometric Typeface System

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Typographica @typographica.org · 06/07/2026

“The promise of generative AI is that it can learn the underlying meta-structures of the training data, so that it can recompose and extrapolate them in ways that are novel or not represented well in the training data.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 06/07/2026

Q. Is it enjoyable to have to create multiple weight variations and italics for each font that you create? “This is the work. Is all of it equally enjoyable? No, but it is what trains skills and shapes us as people who make this particular class of thing.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 06/07/2026

“One of the many truly offensive things to me about AI-driven artistic processes is that they divorce the ostensible artist from their influences. All art draws on and builds on previous work in one way or another, and an artist ought to be aware of their influences, and ideally share information

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Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)

Hi Everyone, The Google Fonts contributor guidelines pointed me to this forum as a safe place to get feedback on my type designs.

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Alphabit Studio @alphabit.studio · 13/04/2026

Introducing alphabit.studio! Built for creating and editing fonts for small screens, embedded devices, retro systems, and anywhere bitmap fonts still make the most sense. Import real formats, edit with proper pixel control, and export cleanly. Enjoy, and get in touch if you spot anything lacking.

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Alphabit Studio

Design monochrome bitmap glyphs with variable-width editing and validation-aware export flows.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 14/06/2026

Carlo Bassani, Il Pittore di Caratteri : Alfabeti Artistici in Colore, Milano, 1890 archive.org/details/gri_... #Calligraphy #Lettering #Alphabets #1890s #19thCentury

Page from a book showing a lowercase fraktur alphabet in red-orange with brown shading, surrounded by monolinear initials, many of Mediaeval form, in red-orange, brown, and blue.

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 01/06/2026

We’re seeking someone to lead our digitization program: jobs.gusto.com/postings/let... #Museums #Digitization #GLAM #GLAMJobs

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Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 09/06/2026

We're looking for an Art Director to shape the visual identity of our trade art-book publishing program. The role will be onsite at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Read more and apply: jobs.gusto.com/postings/let... #BookDesign #ArtDirector #DesignJobs

Red graphic with the words “We’re Hiring!” in the center and screened illustrated portraits of people in the background.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 08/06/2026

Just when I thought I knew all the cool stuff about Winold Reiss, I learn about M.A.C. (Modern Art Collector), his 11-issue magazine about commercial art from 1915–1918. #WinoldReiss

Cover of a magazine (unfortunately trimmed) titled “M. A. C” with the subtitle, “A Monthly Collection of Modern Designs”, 1915, 1, New York. The image is a brightly colored macaw on a red background decorated with vases of flowers.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 21/05/2026

VOLUMES Design Library opens on June 4! mailchi.mp/16874fb48506... Congrats to Michael Ellsworth and his team for creating something really special in Portland. @laureola.bsky.social and I were lucky to get a preview last week. #Portland #VolumesDesignLibrary #GraphicDesign #Libraries

Three smiling people hold books while standing in front of a bookshelf. In the foreground is a blue bin with casters.

Photo of a book interior (Bruno Munari’s “The Circus in the Mist”) depicting a street car, traffic light, and bird through transparent papers.

Photo of a vintage book cover with the title, “I’ll Bet You Can’t”, and an illustration of someone waving their hand over a lit match.

Photo of a book interior showing vintage books about lettering and novelty children’s books.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 30/06/2019

There should be a type history scholarship or award named after Nicolete Gray. Can’t count the times I’ve found a long-sought answer or a fascinating new question in her books. Not only “19th century ornamented typefaces”, but also “History of Lettering” w/ its appendix charts.

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Marvelous Marg @marvelousmarg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Speak of the devil! This is on in Detroit right now. Have fun! 🤠

Nicho Lowry appraises a WTC poster with guest.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 08/05/2026

ATypI has been posting videos from last year’s conference. For anyone, like me, who is an Arabic outsider, I can highly recommend this session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ts... Panels don’t always work well, but this one had such a wide array of perspectives and insights. I learned so much!

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From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type (panel) | ATypI 2025 Copenhagen

YouTube video by ATypI

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Typographica @typographica.org · 08/05/2026

Last year I was honored to give the 50th Dwiggins Lecture for the Society of Printers in Boston. The recording is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LE... I try to capture what gives WAD’s type so much life, and the contemporary designers whose work also has those attributes. #TypeDesign #WADwiggins

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Stephen Coles: Warmth & Snap: What New Type Owes to W.A. Dwiggins

YouTube video by Society of Printers

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 07/05/2026

Join us in thanking @kontour.bsky.social for being a Fonts In Use sponsor! Ever since her Cholla fontsinuse.com/typefaces/19... in 1999 for Emigre, Sibylle Hagmann has been innovating in type design. Her latest is Riant Display: kontour.com/typefaces/ri... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

Graphic of a geometric sans serif typeface in three styles: light, bold, and inline.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026

No one has supported Fonts In Use longer than @marksimonson.bsky.social! Mark recently issued a block-rockin’ script: Heckle. Read all about it: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

A cropped specimen of a brush script typeface in six weights.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026

Fonts In Use is made possible by sponsors like @dardenstudio.bsky.social, who has supported the project for over five years! Right now they’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joshua Darden’s Omnes: www.dardenstudio.com/omnes#info #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

Graphic with a large “20” and “Years of Omnes” on a colorful background.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 02/05/2026

Will Bradley’s advice to the young typographer: “Set type as if you wanted to read it afterward. Every day have a little more joy in your work, and be happy and daring.” Source: Eugene M. Ettenberg, Type for Books and Advertising, 1947 archive.org/details/dli....

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

At the conclusion of my first year of teaching with the Type West program at @letterformarchive.org, the class of 2019 produced this picture – which I still think is amazing. typewest2019.com/about/

Twelve students posed in front of a wall of bookshelves, all well-dressed, one holding an apple, one with a parrot on his finger, and another seated with a dog in her lap.

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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 14/04/2026

Last year, we conducted an independent survey focused on font use and licensing. More than 1,300 respondents participated from a wide community of designers and other font users, and we have now published a short article plus the full survey results on Fontstand News: fontstand.com/news/design-...

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What font users actually want: findings from Fontstand 2025 survey

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The Linotype Daily @thelinotypedaily.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“So <Americans> don’t know, still, the exhaustion, this existential exhaustion that comes over you and you don’t know what it means to lose faith in yourself, in others, in politics, in democracy. So before that happens, this has to be stopped for sure…”’ —Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social

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Typographica @typographica.org · 25/03/2026

Two signs from @sfneon.bsky.social’s Mission tour last week: 20 Spot and Cherin’s Auto.

Photo of a neon sign at night. The sign reads “Records” in red tubing with a blue tube frame.

Photo of a neon sign at night. The sign reads “AUTO” in white tubing on a red reflective background.

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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 18/03/2026

Mass-Driver is the type foundry of Rutherford Craze (@craze.co.uk) and one of the fine sponsors that make Fonts In Use possible. #fonts #FontsInUseSponsors

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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 03/03/2026

This is why we post much less on Instagram. 👏Thanks @creativeboom.com for bringing this topic to the community.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 28/02/2026

Another banger from Maximiliano Sproviero, proving he is the master of 1960s script fonts. sproviero-type.com/font/feline/

Graphic of a bold, condensed script typeface called “Feline” with lots stroke contrast and a swash F.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 19/02/2026

Abolish ICE. Screen print by Carlos Barberena (@carlosbarberena.bsky.social). justseeds.org/product/abol...

Linocut-style illustration of a child surrounded by chainlink fence with the words “ABOLISH ICE” at the bottom.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 15/02/2026

typography-debate.org — Digital archive of the modernist typography debate. Original texts, manifestos and rebuttals. A website by Sven Fuchs.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 11/02/2026

I’m co-leading tours with @sfneon.bsky.social tomorrow and March 4. We visit sites around Union Square and connect their signs and matchbooks to #SanFrancisco nightlife history. Feb 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/matchbook-... Mar 4: www.eventbrite.com/e/matchbook-... #Signs #Neon #Typography

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Matchbook-Neon Typography Tour 2/12

From vintage type to old glowing signs, follow the historic corridors of mid-century nightlife in San Francisco via neon and matchbooks.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 10/02/2026

Among my least favorite job duties: writing contracts and invoices. Among my favorite job duties: typesetting contracts and invoices.

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Typographica @typographica.org · 04/02/2026

Following a clear lineage from her Lo-Res to Modula to Program, Zuzana Licko’s newest design is the perfect marriage of her past experiments with variable technology: www.emigre.com/Fonts/Modula... #ZuzanaLicko #EmigreFonts #Fonts #TypeDesign

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Emigre: Modulator Font Family

Designed by Zuzana Licko in 2026. Modulator is a spin-off inspired by two different designs born in different eras: Modula Round Black, designed in 1995, and...

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

100 followers isn't much, but in reality it's a crowd! So I think it's a good excuse to introduce myself 😀 Hi! I'm Vera — a type designer, especially passionate in deep-rooted, research-based type design projects. I'm also a calligrapher, believing that calligraphy is a performance in its own right

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#CalligraphyMarathon ✍️ How it works? You simply DM me the name you’d like written and choose the paper colour and format option (original or scan). I’ll write the piece and send you a preview first Once you’re happy with it, I’ll ask for payment — and then send the scan or post the original to you 📮

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Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Also! The Bay had me on to talk about CCA's closure. This team does such audio magic: we hear from a current BFA student just starting his second semester, I talk about the ripple effects on the art community, and we give the school the respect our mayor did not. www.kqed.org/news/1207045...

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‘Nowhere Left to Go’: As California College of the Arts Closes, So Does a Pathway for Bay Area Artists | KQED

The school's closure stands to have a devastating impact on the Bay Area’s arts ecosystem

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