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What are the most popular typefaces on the front pages of our daily newspapers? A recent survey of 100 papers reveals much about the type business today.

The 10 most popular typeface families in American newspapers according to a study by Ascender Corporation

Founded in 2001, Feliciano Type Foundry looks back onto its proprietor’s fundamental ideas and creative doings. Mario Feliciano (born 1969 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal), since the early 1990s is a graphic designer by profession and a typographer by heart. After a year as graphic designer for Surf Portugal magazine, he opened his first own graphic design studio in Lisbon, called Secretonix, in 1994, besides giving lectures at various universities in Portugal and abroad.

Fontsmith is a leading type design studio. We create bespoke fonts for corporate identity, working with design groups or direct with the end user.

Luc Devroye's list

typecuts is an independent font and graphic label, dedicated to create and produce original contemporary fonts for retail and custom use. typecuts was founded in 2004 by Andrea Tinnes to publish and promote her own fonts which are available from this website as well as primetype. With its few font families the typecuts fontlibrary offers a wide range of typographic forms: from text faces over graphic fonts to dingbat illustrations. Following Jeffery Keedy's paradigm keep the inconsistencies consistent typecuts typefaces seek to explore the relation between clear geometric construction and playful decorative form while considering historical contexts as well as contemporary tendencies in typedesign.

Fonts are an essential part of design - but there are thousands of fonts out there, so knowing which ones to use can be quite daunting. Here's a roundup of some fonts that have found popularity recently.

Examples of typefaces that can be used on web.

Lots of cool fonts and designers check it out

Pochoir is a sweet stencil antiqua typeface with round and thick serifs. It was inspired by Paris street art on a university trip, namely stencils of course. The art form of stencils has first appeared in Paris in the 1980s.

What is True Type hinting and how it helps ?

FontBook is the only guide that compiles original, digital typefaces from multiple manufacturers and presents them in a systematic way. FontBook is all-inclusive, with typefaces both old and new. It contains all the classics of the art of printing, insofar as they are available digitally, as well as the latest font releases and extensions. FontBook is a type encyclopedia with an abundance of carefully researched notes on type designers, year of publication, similar fonts, and additional language versions.

Typographica is a journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.

Monotype Imaging’s ESQ® Mobile brand of fonts includes more than 200 new designs engineered for exceptional display quality on mobile phones. ESQ Mobile fonts feature designs from the Monotype, Linotype and ITC typeface libraries. For the first time, developers of mobile content, user interfaces, applications, games, services and advertising can select from a growing variety of distinctive, scalable typefaces fine-tuned for the phone.

This is the site for the JustFontIt project, a new utility for font professionals. In addition to GUI font editors, JustFontIt provides a wide range of features, required to quickly bring the fonts to a sellable state. This includes through font testing against effective criteria what allows to pinpoint typical font bugs, ability to make safe patches in Type1 fonts, generating clean font metrics, conversion between Type1 Binary and Type1 ASCII formats, generation of customizable lists of font properties and more.

Textaxis : Obsesión tipográfica que impide la correcta lectura de un texto, desviando la atención hacia los aspectos formales de las letras.