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New York, Boston and Providence

The tour will be kicked off on Monday, 31 March, at the Cooper Type, for a small typography talk for the students. On Tuesday 1 April (really!), Peter will speak about rethinking publishing, at the...

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Neutral Typeface

Neutral began as Kai Bernau’s graduation project at KABK (the Royal Academy of Art), taking inspiration from typefaces that seem ageless, remaining fresh and relevant even decades after they were...

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Interactive Print Type Specimen

Selecting the right typeface requires a mixture of knowledge, experience and intuition. As with putting together an outfit or cooking a dinner, you don’t pick just one element, but create...

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Valter, a high-contrast Sans

Valter is a graceful and slightly cheeky collection of sans-serif display fonts inspired by pointed-pen writing. Constructed on a monolinear skeleton, it offers seven weights that incrementally...

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Parmigiano Typographic System

Motion design by Vít ZemčíkGiambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) was the most prolific type designer in history, producing 142 Romans, 34 Greeks and 21 Cyrillics, as well as italics, non-Latin typefaces,...

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Woodkit, a system of display typefaces

Woodkit is a playful fixed-width display series of typefaces inspired by wood type, designed by Ondrej Jób. Woodkit comes as three separate families, with different degrees of print degradation:Solid,...

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Echo & Charlie

Introducing Echo, a sans serif counterpart to the previously published Charlie typeface, designed by Ross Milne, with the Cyrillic by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan and Greek by Natasha Raissaki. Echo is clear...

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Greta Sans in Cyrillic and Greek

Three years ago, we have launched Greta Sans, an extensive typeface system. Now, we further expand the system by Cyrillic (designed by Irina Smirnova) and Greek (designed by Peter Biľak) versions,...

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Try our fonts for free on Fontstand

We are proud and excited to announce Fontstand, a new Mac OS X application that lets you test fonts for free and rent them for a fraction of their retail price. We believe that it will give you...

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Parmigiano, Cyrillic and Greek

Exactly a year ago, we released the Latin version of Parmigiano. Today we announce further expansion of the already extensive Parmigiano Typographic System (Piccolo, Caption, Text, Headline), with...

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Greta Mono

We are pleased to present Greta Mono, a fixed-width font family in an unprecedented ten weights and two widths. Most digital monospaced fonts come with two weights, regular and bold, because making a...

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Fedra Sans now supports Inuktitut

After Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Armenian, and Devanagari, Inuktitut is the seventh writing script supported by Fedra Sans.Avataq Cultural Institute, the Inuit cultural organisation of Nunavik...

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Parmigiano Stencil

Parmigiano was published in 2014, 200 years after Giambattista Bodoni’s death, and represents the most extensive family of fonts ever to have been inspired by his work. The Parmigiano Typographic...

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Announcing new website, adapted for 2016 and beyond.

We think you will find it a step forward from its predecessors, and aside from a new design, it also offers new licensing methods and new payment options while addressing new technological...

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Vita, a typeface for low and high resolution

Vita (and Vita Condensed) have been carefully drawn to perform well as a webfont on both low- and high-resolution screens. Although designed for digital displays, it also produces striking results in...

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17 years of this website

The first Typotheque website was designed by founder Peter Biľak in 1999. Unable to afford external help, he wrote all the texts and coded all the pages himself. The design was very plain and well...

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Uni Grotesk, a Central-European geometric Sans

Uni Grotesk and its Condensed variant is an adaptation of Universal Grotesk and well suited for contemporary use, with its particularly Central European flavour of early 20th century geometric sans....

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William, a Contemporary Interpretation of Caslon Types

William Caslon (1692–1766) established the cornerstone of British type founding, ending reliance on the Dutch types which were commonly used in England up to that point (and which inspired his...

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Manu, a smart handwriting font

Handwriting fonts are a curious breed. Handwriting by definition is not typographic. Even the most trained hand produces a unique specimen every time, influenced by the size and quality of the paper,...

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Manu, comic strip

Illustrations by Fabien Roché

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