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The Fine Press Book Association has the goal to promote well designed and produced books. This year the Association honoured typefaces—the grounding for books—from young type designers. The Fine Press Book Association’s inaugural Student Type Design Competition sprang from the [...] more

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This article is in German only. Sorry. more

Even though Twitter left its niche existence quite a while ago, many still have reservations about the network. Even in design studies, the interest amongst students is rather small, at least in Germany. Nevertheless, the short messaging service is an [...] more

The past year attracts attention once more. The best-of lists haven been released in the first weeks of the new year. The big resellers as FontShop, Myfonts and Youworkforthem have published their lists. The most important awards for typefaces like [...] more

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Two days, one room, masses of scribble-paper, brushes, Mac, two typenerds ;-), ink & nib, balsa, the Glyphs-App, Input en masse, a projector plus 15 students keen on lettering and lettertuning. For the third time the quick brown fox visited [...] more

Happy New Year! This is about a call for entries for German Students. more

Our advent calendar ended yesterday, you can page through the calendar sheets in the slideshow down below. On Facebook and Pinterest we have albums with our complete collection of 24 AdventsZeichen. We would like to thank all the contributors. We [...] more

Today is Christmas Eve, December 24th and we end our our Advent calendar with a 24-ligature. That’s it for this year? Not exaxtly. There will be a short retrospect and a slideshow with our AdventsZeichen to page through at this [...] more

Today it’s about interpolation. Sorry for not translating the German version. more

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“Why would you include this ligature of a long s and t into your character set?” “Why not”, one may answer. In setting antiqua typefaces there is only rarely use for the long s, in scientific publications for example for [...] more