Typography

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Monotype seals worldwide font licensing agreement with GannettThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 11:33AMMonotype Imaging has signed a global font licensing deal with Gannett, the international media business and parent of UK-based publisher Newsquest Media Group.

New file format eases use of fonts for the WebThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 7:38AMWOFF can work across many browsers, allowing users to seamlessly work with fonts when viewing Web pages Visit website for full story...

Down The Rabbit HoleWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 1:37PMWhen the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest opens this weekend, Sept. 10-11, it will remain true to its tradition of being unabashedly idiosyncratic. Founder, director, novelist Timothy Schaffert readily describes the six-year-old fest as a little esoteric.

Iran and Japan plan to boost artistic relationsWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 9:55AMTEHRAN, Sept. 8 (MNA) -- Japanese plenipotentiary in Iran Kazutoshi Aikawa and cultural attaché Yoko Takahashi visited the exhibit “A Manifestation of World Contemporary Art” currently underway at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) here on Wednesday.

IndieCade Announces Game Finalists for 2010 FestivalTuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 5:35PM32 finalist games represent 10 countries and span 6 platforms; every finalist is eligible for every prize category in IndieCade's unique judging system.

Extensis® Releases Suitcase Fusion™ 3 with Adobe® CS5 Integration and Launches Cloud-based Web Font Service WebINK®Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 2:14AMNORTHAMPTON, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today announced the immediate availability of Suitcase Fusion™ 3, the newest version of the professional-grade font manager for Macintosh® and Windows® operating systems and WebINK (www.webink.com), their new web font rental service. Designers are inherently multi-disciplined and often need ...

Extensis® Releases Suitcase Fusion 3 with Adobe® CS5 Integration and Launches Cloud-based Web Font Service WebINK®Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 2:00AMNORTHAMPTON, England----Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today announced the immediate availability of Suitcase Fusion™ 3, the newest version of the professional-grade font manager for Macintosh® and Windows® operating systems and WebINK , their new web font rental service.

The future of web fontsMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 6:57AMThe next web design revolution will be typographic. But as Craig Grannell discovers, all is not plain sailing as we transition to real fonts

3D type with a street art edgeMonday, September 6, 2010 @ 5:30AMMost of my work is heavily based on typography. I used to make 2D and 3D typographic illustrations by drawing letters on paper and then making vector graphics out of them, but recently I’ve been creating typographic illustrations in Google SketchUp Pro and then transferring them to Illustrator to finalise.