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➸ https://type-atlas.xyz/ A directory of contemporary type design. Weekly #AtlasOfType news on the website and wherever you read your RSS. Run by https://typo.social/@db. Avatar: Crayonette DJR (2017)
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boldmonday.bsky.social
New Release — Pim! Monospaced and inspired by vintage Dutch signage, Pim combines playful shapes, swashes, ornaments, and pictograms in both Latin and Cyrillic. Bold, tight, and full of personality. 30% off all font styles until Jan 5, 2026!

www.boldmonday.com/typefaces/pim
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December 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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typetogether.bsky.social
Sakkal Saad /// Our new release, Sakkal Saad, provides a wealth of options for text justification and graceful layout and compositions. 🧵 1/4

#typography #Arabic #fonts #graphicdesign #fontsky
Sakkal Saad offers a number of tools to enable graceful layouts and compositions.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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205tf.bsky.social
New Release: Gando by Matthieu Cortat
www.205.tf/gando

Clear, sharp, and slightly haughty, Didot typefaces have a distinct personality. Yet when used for running text, this very charisma can work against them; their readability would be improved if they were more rounded and flexible.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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christoph.koe.berlin
Tausend Shaded is the #free #font family member of our Tausend family. Here are some insights:
fontwerk.com/text/tausend...
Tausend Shaded
A closer look at the Tausend Shaded typeface by Christoph Koeberlin and Gabriel Richter
fontwerk.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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letterformarchive.org
Our annual Rare Book Sale is back on December 6! Register to get a reminder, and a link to our online sale, with early access for Letterform Archive members. letterformarchive.org/shop/rare-bo...
Rare Book Sale 2025
Bring a bit of the Archive home with you at our annual book and ephemera sale – both onsite and online!
letterformarchive.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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mauricemeilleur.bsky.social
My friend Kelli Anderson’s truly excellent paper-engineering book on the Latin alphabet, Alphabet in Motion, in review on Adam Savage’s Tested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCc...

You can buy Kelli’s book at: www.kellianderson.com/books/alphab...
Adam Savage Stunned By This Pop-Up Book's Engineering!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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“Alphabets in Motion” in motion, with Adam Savage and Kelli Anderson youtu.be/eKCcqlJnZcA
Adam Savage Stunned By This Pop-Up Book's Engineering!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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mass-driver.com
The v0.4 update for MD Thermochrome is finally ready, and it’ll ship later today!

This version of the typeface includes 100+ new icons for UI design, wayfinding, and more.

There’s a few more hours to get it at the current price, with lifetime updates included:
www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...
A grid of 133 icons, symbols and arrows, from the upcoming V0.4 release of MD Thermochrome. Among them are icons for weather conditions, arrival/departures signs, documents, playing card suits, media controls, and common UI symbols.
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Letraset inspired blanket. www.thedesignersfoundry.com/goods/goodma...

Very good.

Via @its-nice-that.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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letterformarchive.org
Announcing
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets

Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France.

#SignPainting #Alphabets #Lettering

letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres...
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in the graphic arts.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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marksimonson.bsky.social
Hardcover is an elegant new serif typeface for display use. It's one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch in 1978, inspired by the lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers. More info here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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starshapedpress.bsky.social
Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...
Close up of a print called Urbs in Horto (text is in a tree form in print). Multiple colors create a modular take on the city of Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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lither.land
“We invite contributors to continue this tradition and imagine new short stories in which alphabets, words, and characters transform the world around them, stories where language itself takes part in the narrative…”

letter-books.com/open-call

($100 honorarium)
Open Call – Letter Books
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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fontstand.com
Riccardo Olocco from CAST has written a heartfelt obituary about James Mosley. It touches a note that will hopefully resound with readers, whether they had the chance to be Mosley’s students or not. fontstand.com/news/essays/...
James Mosley at St Bride in 1983 examining a print of five ornamented letters from the Pouchée foundry. Photo: Ian Mortimer. James Mosley at the tomb of William Caslon, c. 2005. Photo: Alastair Johnson. A view of the storage stacks inside the St Bride Library. Had it not been for James Mosley‘s tenure, many of the invaluable typographic materials now within the library’s collection would never have been preserved. Photo: Bob Richardson. James Mosley and Gillian Riley at the tomb of T. B. Reed, c. 2005. Photo: Alastair Johnson.
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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celiason.bsky.social
When I release a typeface design, I always craft an original cocktail inspired by the font. Here's Fillmore teelinefonts.com/notes/the-fi... #cheers
The Fillmore cocktail — Teeline Fonts notes
teelinefonts.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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commercialtype.bsky.social
Read more about Delusse in the newsletter by @lither.land, with showings designed by Vance Wellenstein:
commercialtype.com/newsletters/...

Or have a look at the detailed PDF specimen:
commercialtype.com/uploads/1025...

Or download free trial fonts:
commercialtype.com/catalog/delu...
The complete Delusse family, with the name of each style set in its respective typeface.
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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kinross.bsky.social
A note on the physical production of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

robinkinross.substack.com/p/fitzcarral...
Fitzcarraldo Editions
The British publisher Fitzcarraldo issued its first books in 2014.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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commercialtype.bsky.social
New release by Sandrine Nugue: Delusse, a spiky-soft response to Vendôme, one of the most iconic French typefaces of the twentieth century.

commercialtype.com/catalog/delu...
JE NE SAIS QUOI in Delusse Regular A block of text in Delusse Regular and Regular Italic A block of text in Delusse Black "Prêt-à-Porter" in Delusse Regular Italic
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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typeoff.bsky.social
This book is out now! Over 196-pages, it dives into the technological differences between the systems of movable type pioneered in East Asia and Western Europe. It is probably the most challenging thing I have designed so far but if it sells well, I might get to do it all over again in English 😉
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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christoph.koe.berlin
The Univerisity of Reading quietly published a playlist of James Mosley’s lectures on the history of (Latin) letterforms to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(via typo.social/@TiroTypeworks) #typefacts
James Mosley's History of Letterforms - YouTube
James Mosley’s lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication over many years. They represent ...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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205tf.bsky.social
New Release: Pinokio by Tanguy Vanlaeys⁠
www.205.tf/collection/p...
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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typofonderie.com
🐪Akhen, our NEW Egypto-Slab remixed🐪
➽ typofonderie.com/fonts/akhen-...

Akhen designed by Jean François Porchez, is new typeface family inspired by French 19th-century metal and wood types, featuring three narrow widths and a large range of weights.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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herzberg.bsky.social
Here’s every typeface that I’m currently working on (to some degree or another). Hopeful that they’ll all see the finish line before I start drawing 2 dozen new ones. Which one are you most excited about?
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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typotheque.com
People perceive thickness of letters very individually, and that’s why we are conducting Font Weight Survey to understand the regional preferences of font weight. Could we ask you for 10 min of your time? The findings will be published publicly once we have some results.
tptq.com/weight
October 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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commercialtype.bsky.social
James Mosely's series of lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered every year to students in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. These were recorded in 2020-21, and are now available for everyone to watch:

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
James Mosley's History of Letterforms - YouTube
James Mosley’s lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication over many years. They represent ...
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM