La familia Didactica
Type designer Sabrina Lopez continues her documentation of Didactica with “La familia Didactica,” a Spanish-language article on the Alphabettes blog exploring the type family she designed for Typesen…
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Typography Trends in 2026
Every year, the design blogosphere publishes plenty of lists about current typography trends. This year, the range feels enormous. Certainly too wide to define.
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P22 Type Foundry | An Interview with Richard Kegler
Ask P22’s Richard Kegler and he’ll tell you not knowing the rules of type design can sometimes lead to the most interesting work.
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Five pivotal moments that built digital type as a cottage industry
The story of how type design became a cottage industry and how independent designers actually got discovered and paid for their craft, is still untold. I propose these five moments: a tool, a pivot, an accelerator, a new medium, and a disruption.
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Introducing Neotype
My interest in type design traces back to a type design project I did in college as an art student 50 years ago. I wrote about it here last March and shared it on social media. A commenter on Instagr…
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How to sell fonts online
This guide explains how to sell fonts online in 2026 through the lens of a professional buyer: start by selling direct, add marketplaces for discovery and Adobe Fonts to drive exposure that converts into paid licensing.
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Typography in your design system: tokens, styles, and usage rules
Strong typography in your design system is more than specifying fonts and sizes. It helps your team make repeatable decisions about how text should work.
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Lipton Letter Design | An interview with Richard Lipton
See how Richard Lipton’s incredible journey shaped his life and the Type Design industry around the world.
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The world of digital type: dusk or dawn
Welcome to "The World of Type." While the title is audacious, it reflects exactly what we intend to discuss — nothing more, and nothing less.
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Branding The Type Founders’ next chapter
Introducing a new brand that embodies the stewardship we have for our foundries and carries us forward.
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Nonpareil Type | An interview with Jerry Kelly
See how Jerry Kelly's career went from calligraphy to book design to type design to all of them combined.
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How custom font design projects work
Learn how to choose the right font for your brand and if needed how to commission a custom font. Explore bespoke type design, font customization, licensing, timelines to start your project.
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How to create a type foundry marketing strategy
Good type doesn’t sell itself. Here’s how to build a foundry marketing strategy that reaches the right designers and brand teams and turns their interest into steady licensing income.
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Ivy Foundry | An interview with Jan Maack
See how Jan Maack's life journey took him from art director to one of the most interesting type designers in the world.