Typography News: November 2021

Want the latest typography news? Our design expert Joaquin gives you the latest scoop. Read on for more.

Case studies of newly designed accents for contemporary typefaces

Radek Sidun of the Czech foundry Briefcase has written a book on diacritics and their correct design. There are more than 70 languages in Europe using the Latin script. Some have disappeared, others are spoken by only a small part of the population, and there are only a few dozen of the most used ones.

Font builder

An online tool to create your own handwritten font with your mouse.here.

I studied the fonts of the top 1000 websites. Here’s what I learned.

This article was written by Michael Li—a data scientist and entrepreneur with a love for design. Previously at Foursquare, Google, J.P. Morgan, D.E. Shaw, and NASA.

Design Regression

Design Regression is a journalette (mini journal) publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research. It aims for the hard-to-get blend of approachability with seriousness and relevance to practice.

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