Fonts 3

William Text
5 Styles
William Subhead
4 Styles
William Display
5 Styles

Books 1

Dot Dot Dot 20
The final issue of the magazine in which tries — finally — to be as direct as possible about 
what it’s come to stand for and what it thinks it’s gonn...

Articles 24

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Devanagari – The Makings of a National Character
The story of Devanagari type from early print to the digital age, as Indian print culture both sparked and responded to intense socio-political change and const...
Essays · 21 March 2022 · English · 12695 words
Syllabics typographic guidelines and local typographic preferences
This essay provides guidelines to fine Syllabics typography through identifying its general and inherent concepts, as well as detailing the nuances found in loc...
Essays · 24 January 2022 · English · 6512 words
A Brief History of Sans Serif typefaces
The five centuries that followed Gutenberg and his moveable typefaces defined the possibilities of Roman serif type. The current possibilities of sans typefaces...
Essays · 11 March 2019 · English · 955 words
Parmigiano Type System, a tribute to Bodoni
Riccardo Olocco and Jonathan Pierini’s Parmigiano is a reinterpretation of the work of Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) commemorating the bicentenary of his...
Typeface stories · 7 July 2014 · English · 1116 words
Beauty and Ugliness in Type design
Article on the process of designing Karloff typeface, showing just how closely related beauty and ugliness are.
Typeface stories · 25 September 2012 · English · 957 words

Blogs 3

William finally supports Greek and Cyrillic
A typeface that started a decade ago with a Cyrillic design finally gets its official Cyrillic version.
13 June 2018
William, a Contemporary Interpretation of Caslon Types
William, a contemporary interpretation of Caslon, is a truly international font in which English, Dutch and Russian influences come together to create one compl...
29 February 2016
Typotheque Fonts Now Support Klingon
To meet the growing demand for for global communication, Typotheque has taken another step towards true internationalisation by extending all its fonts to suppo...
1 April 2009

Authors 1

Jessica Helfand
is partner with William Drenttel in a design consultancy in Northwest Connecticut (USA) named Winterhouse Studio. They concentrate on editorial design...