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    • Greta Sans screensaver Greta Sans screensaver

      Greta Sans App is now available also as a screensaver. Download the ZIP file, unpack, and double click to install on your Mac. Read this post 07 May 2012 Announcements

    • Greta Sans Type System Specimen App Greta Sans Type System Specimen App

      This Greta Sans Type System Specimen App was created to help you explore the type system intuitively with a mouse or your fingers. Read this post 02 May 2012 Research

    • Type & Music Type & Music

      Georgi Sztojanov, a composer from The Hague, matched visual parameters of Greta Sans type system to musical parameters to create a musical composition. Read this post 12 April 2012 Research

    • Greta Typeface System Greta Typeface System

      Greta Sans explores a multidimensional continuum of possibilities, going beyond the relationship between weight and width, dissolving the boundaries between display and text typefaces. Read this post 10 April 2012 Announcements

    • Introducing Greta Sans Introducing Greta Sans

      Introducing Greta Sans, in a typographic animation produced by Addikt, Amsterdam. Read this post 10 April 2012 Announcements

    • Icon font in 10 weights Icon font in 10 weights

      Greta Symbol is a unique collection of thousands of useful symbols and alphanumerical characters, available as icons fonts in a range of 10 weights. Read this post 07 April 2012 Announcements New fonts

    • Forgotten History Forgotten History

      The fascinating history of visual culture in Slovakia between the wars is presented in the book Modernity of Tradition. Read this post 02 April 2012 New products Research

    • PDF Tester API available PDF Tester API available

      PDF Font Tester is an available online API that allows users to create their own samples, controlling the text, position, size, leading, OpenType features and colour, and generate a PDF file with the font samples. Read this post 07 March 2012 Announcements

    • Hans Eduard Meier Hans Eduard Meier

      When I was studying at the Atelier national de création typographique (ANCT) in Paris in the mid 1990s, our hero was Hans Eduard Meier, the creator of Syntax. Read this post 01 February 2012 New articles

    • Webfonts sites (part 4) Webfonts sites (part 4)

      We keep seeing more and more websites using Typotheque webfonts, and it gets harder to select a representative sample. Here are three new sites that got our attention recently: Read this post 27 December 2011 Fonts in use

    • Dream projects Dream projects

      When I started working with type some twenty years ago I imagined a couple of dream applications for my future typefaces. I had no idea about font production, but I was already fantasising about the possible results of what was then my evening hobby. Read this post 12 December 2011 Fonts in use

    • Julien movie Julien movie

      Now would like to present selected new projects in short movies. Our new release Julien was a good excuse to try it out. Read this post 16 November 2011 New fonts

    • New fonts: Irma Text, Slab, Round New fonts: Irma Text, Slab, Round

      Irma Text is ideal for the formal requirements of contemporary publishing or giving a unique voice to brand identity projects. Irma is a versatile family of fonts, offering a complete palette of typographic choices. Read this post 14 September 2011 New fonts

    • Social Energy Social Energy

      We have just received Social Energy, a book documenting a series of travelling design exhibitions, workshops and lectures presented across China. Read this post 31 August 2011 Announcements Lectures

    • Webfonts sites (part 3) Webfonts sites (part 3)

      The third installment in the series of websites that use Typotheque’s webfont service. Read this post 18 July 2011 Announcements

    • ACP Donor Wheel ACP Donor Wheel

      ACP Donor Wheel, Interactive donor recognition sculpture for the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts in Princeton, NJ. Four weights of Jigsaw Stencil in both roman and cursive are laser-cut in stainless steel and backlit with LEDs. Read this post 27 June 2011 Interesting

    • Elementar Font System App Elementar Font System App

      Typotheque also offers a free iPad app. The Elementar App is an innovative, intuitive way to select parametric bitmap fonts just by swiping to browse through the thousands of combinations of heights, weights and styles. Read this post 06 June 2011 Announcements

    • Elementar, a parametric bitmap font system Elementar, a parametric bitmap font system

      Elementar is a parametric font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. It consists of thousands of individual fonts in a continuum of different styles, sizes, weights and widths. Read this post 19 May 2011 New fonts

    • Thuraya, an Arabic display typeface Thuraya, an Arabic display typeface

      Thuraya is a new Arabic display typeface, a contemporary interpretation of the complex Diwani style emphasising calligraphic features. Read this post 09 May 2011 New fonts

    • New book: 158 answers New book: 158 answers

      The book ‘158 answers’ presents eleven interviews with renowned type designers and writers, interviewed by students of Type Media postgraduate course in type design. Read this post 09 May 2011 New products

    • Dance Writer app Dance Writer app

      Typotheque is pleased to announce the release of Dance Writer as an iPhone/iPad app. Dance Writer converts text into a choreographed sequence of poses based on the shapes of the letters Read this post 26 April 2011 Announcements

    • Body Type photofonts Body Type photofonts

      Body Type turns human bodies into a functional type system. It is available as a set of 26 hi-res photos or as a Photofont file (usable in Adobe applications), and includes two styles, Regular and Bold, for a greater range of expression. Read this post 26 April 2011 New fonts

    • Typeface As Programme Typeface As Programme

      Analysis of the evolution of typographic technology and the nature of digital fonts, and introduces Donald E. Knuth’s groundbreaking TeX and Metafont systems. An essay complemented by interviews with Peter Biľak, Erik Spiekermann and Dimitri Bruni (NORM). Read this post 14 April 2011 New articles

    • Best Books of Austria 2010 Best Books of Austria 2010

      Book edition Thomas Bernhard, Autobiographische Schriften, designed by Clemens Schedler won the State Award 2010 at the Best Books of Austria. Read this post 09 April 2011 Announcements

    • Webfonts sites (part 2) Webfonts sites (part 2)

      Following the first part of the focus on websites using Typotheque webfont service, we are now pleased to present another three websites. Read this post 23 March 2011 Announcements

    • Webfonts sites (part 1) Webfonts sites (part 1)

      Looking at the statistics of Typotheque webfont service led to the discovery of some brilliant websites using our webfonts. We are now pleased to highlight some of them. Read this post 08 March 2011 Announcements

    • How does History sound? How does History sound?

      In a project of Typeradio and the HBK Saar students choose existing typefaces and interpret them in short compositions. Martin Kalle chose our History as the inspiration for his piece. Read this post 01 March 2011 Interesting

    • Typotheque webfont service stats Typotheque webfont service stats

      There are over 500 unique websites using Typotheque webfont system, resulting in over 6 million font requests a month, growing at a double-digit percentage every month. Read this post 28 February 2011 Announcements

    • Conceptual Type (article) Conceptual Type (article)

      In November 2010 Peter Biľak was invited to give a talk at a one-day conference ‘Conceptual Type – Type led by ideas’ in Copenhagen about the underlying ideas behind typefaces. Read this post 24 February 2011 New articles Lectures

    • Plan Grotesque 2.0 Plan Grotesque 2.0

      Plan Grotesque has been now updated with real small caps. This update is available for free to all registered users. Read this post 11 February 2011 Updates

    • Typotheque @ Klat Typotheque @ Klat

      Typotheque has agreed with Klat magazine to run its blog on Klat’s website. Klat (magazine+website) explores the many-sided world of contemporary art, design and architecture, through a close encounter with its protagonists. Read this post 02 January 2011 Announcements

    • Eroica Eroica

      Choreographer Lukáš Timulak and designer Peter Biľak explore Beethoven’s landmark Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'. Inspired by the composer’s personal life, especially his Heiligenstadt period, the authors explore the notion of non-linear dance. Read this post 22 December 2010 Interesting

    • Type At the Opera Type At the Opera

      For the Göteborg Opera’s upcoming dance production Eroica, we created a structure of metal pipes illuminated by individually controlled LED strips. The construction, which is an integral part of the performance, is eight meters wide, four meters high and four meters deep. Read this post 06 December 2010 Interesting

    • Image and Text Image and Text

      We are pleased to present Image and Text, a new website that experiments with the power of text and images. It is intriguing to see how text can modify our understanding of images, and how a single image can be interpreted in multiple ways. Read this post 18 November 2010 Announcements Interesting

    • New and Improved New and Improved

      Nowadays ‘New and Improved’ often mean just tiny irrelevant changes, so we thought it might be good to talk about the development process that led up to the seventh “new and improved” version of our calendar. Read this post 13 November 2010 Research

    • Mobile Devices support Mobile Devices support

      Typotheque’s webfont service now supports the iPhone and iPad, as well as Android mobile devices (and, of course, all the desktop browsers that we’ve supported from the beginning). Read this post 09 November 2010 Announcements

    • Dance Writer 2 Dance Writer 2

      We are pleased to present Dance Writer 2.0 as an online tool — play with it on the screen, or send emails to your friends — your message will be danced to them! Read this post 01 November 2010 Interesting

    • Nordic Tour Nordic Tour

      Autumn is a busy conference times and Typotheque will give a couple of public presentations in the coming weeks. Meet us in Munich, Helsinki, Copenhagen or Gothenburg. Read this post 27 October 2010 Lectures

    • Type specimens Type specimens

      Typotheque produces its own exclusive type specimens and sends them out free of charge to people who request them. Once the specimens are out of print, we don't reprint them. Here are the last 30 copies of some older, out-of-print specimens, collectors’ items available for €4 each. Read this post 11 October 2010 New products

    • Peter Biľak, Eye magazine interview Peter Biľak, Eye magazine interview

      Peter Biľak speaks with Mark Thomson about his beginnings, running a type foundry, magazines and printed matter, modern dance and typography. This interview appeared in Eye magazine No.75, Spring 2010 in the Reputations series. Read this post 27 September 2010 New articles

    • AGI-NL 2010 AGI-NL 2010

      Meet & Greet Dutch Design. This first edition of AGI-NL 2010 is a project of the Dutch members of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Read this post 21 September 2010 Lectures

    • New typeface: Charlie New typeface: Charlie

      Introducing a new typeface by Ross Milne, Charlie, a slab serif typeface created for use in print and exhibition settings Read this post 17 September 2010 New fonts

    • New typeface: Brioni Sans New typeface: Brioni Sans

      Introducing Nikola Djurek’s Brioni Sans, an elegant, humanist sans serif typeface suitable for both body and display text. Read this post 17 September 2010 New fonts

    • Typotheque new website Typotheque new website

      For the past year we've been working on redesigning Typotheque.com from the ground up. This was not just a reformatting of content. We rethought every section, offering new, more interactive ways to view and work with fonts. Read this post 17 September 2010 Announcements

    • Typotheque for Tipoplakat Typotheque for Tipoplakat

      Our good friend Nikola Djurek asked Typotheque to design a poster for his new initiative — Tipoplakat.com. Nikola is producing a limited edition of beautifully silkscreened B1 posters (1000 mm × 700 mm | 39.4" x 27.8"). Read this post 10 September 2010 Announcements

    • Screen fonts for optimal legibility on the computer monitor Screen fonts for optimal legibility on the computer monitor

      After launching our own webfont system, Typotheque now offers fonts specially engineered and optimised for exceptional readability on the computer monitor. These fonts use TrueType outlines, and were manually hinted to achieve crystal-clear results on computer screens. Read this post 20 June 2010 New fonts

    • Tüpo 3D objects Tüpo 3D objects

      German designer Tanja Huckenbeck has created a series of three dimensional objects ranging from pillows, pot holders and purses to armchairs and even sofas based on Typotheque’s Klimax Plus font. Read this post 29 May 2010 Interesting

    • New book: hard cover specimen no.7 New book: hard cover specimen no.7

      Besides its regular free specimens, Typotheque occassionally produces a hardcover specimen. This one is a limited hardcover edition of Typotheque specimen No.7. This 10 year anniversary book presents the complete Typotheque collection printed on bible paper and signed by its authors. Read this post 15 May 2010 New products

    • Typotheque licenses its Webfont engine & Character Set viewer Typotheque licenses its Webfont engine & Character Set viewer

      Typotheque now licenses the engine behind our Webfont service, allowing font conversion to EOT, WOFF and SVG and Character Set Viewer, the online application that displays all glyphs from a TTF or OTF font, including their OpenType alternatives (GSUB and GPOS). Read this post 23 April 2010 Announcements

    • Typotheque introduces Phonts Typotheque introduces Phonts

      Typotheque is proud to announce another pioneering advance in its quest to deliver fine typography to the visually impaired. We now link web fonts to a complex database of meticulously digitized voice data. Read this post 01 April 2010 Announcements

    • Introducing the 100-Year Calendar Introducing the 100-Year Calendar

      Plan your future (and your children’s futures, possibly even your grandchildren’s futures), or just contemplate the beautiful pattern of numbers. Presenting the 100-Year Calendar. Read this post 20 March 2010 New products

    • History of History (article) History of History (article)

      Two years after releasing History, Peter Biľak reflects on the process of creating this skeletal system in which different styles are superimposed on a base of Roman capitals. Read this post 09 March 2010 New articles

    • New typeface: Plan Grotesque New typeface: Plan Grotesque

      Plan Grotesque is a sturdy, unpretentious typeface for text of any kind; it is a functional workhorse with enough character to be distinctive at larger sizes. Read this post 23 February 2010 New fonts

    • Typotheque now supports WOFF in Firefox 3.6 Typotheque now supports WOFF in Firefox 3.6

      Mozilla Foundation has released version 3.6 of Firefox which supports Web Open Font Format (WOFF). Typotheque has already integrated this new font format into its web font system. Read this post 25 January 2010 Announcements

    • Selection of websites using Typotheque Web Font Service Selection of websites using Typotheque Web Font Service

      Since its October 2009 launch, Typotheque’s Web Font Service has been used in over 290 sites, some of which we present in this small selection. Read this post 23 January 2010 Announcements

    • Open Manifesto Open Manifesto

      Open Manifesto comes out twice a year, offering eclectic, critical writing on a wide mix of disciplines seen through the eyes of a graphic designer. It is edited / published / designed by Kevin Finn in Australia. Read this post 18 January 2010 New products

    • Gore’s choice Gore’s choice

      How Al Gore requested a change of inconvenient figure one in Brioni typeface for his book Our Choice. Read this post 07 January 2010 Announcements Updates

    • New t-shirt: A Piece of Text

      ‘A piece of text that looks good but doesn’t say anything’, using Irma's OpenType features mixing positive and negative spaces of letters. Printed on Organic Fine Jersey T-Shirt from American Apparel. Read this post 31 August 2009 New products

    • New font release: Irma

      Irma is an elegant capital-only display typeface in 9 weights that is available in simple Sans & geometric Slab. Read this post 21 August 2009 New fonts

    • Form = Content

      Bookshelf in Literarny Klub in a shape of letter 'k' from Greta Text. Read this post 20 July 2009 Announcements

    • Typotheque Web Font Service preview

      Up until now, if you wanted to use fonts on a website, you were limited to one of the dozen or so ‘web-safe’ fonts. We offer an alternative that allows using real fonts on the web. Read this post 15 July 2009 Announcements Preview

    • Elementar preview

      Elementar is a parametric bitmap font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. The Elementar system can produce a virtually unlimited number of fonts along different variation axes (size, weight, width, style, element size & shape) Read this post 02 July 2009 New fonts Preview

    • Typotheque gets social

      Typotheque goes Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Read this post 24 June 2009 Announcements

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