Last September 19th – at ATypI’08 - The Old and The New in Saint Petersburg – the fourth instalment of the Typophile Film Fest was presented. A selection of short typographic films was shown, hailing from Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Canada, and the US. Those films created a visual mash-up of motion design, typographic animation […]

Typophile has issued an open Call For Entries for the fifth edition of Typophile Film Fest. The film festival is wide open to anything relevant to typography, design history, and/or type design.

There is little doubt that this is the one. Arguably the most important type-related book of the decade has been released: “Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces. The Complete Works”.

PANTONE® 14-0848 Mimosa, a warm, engaging yellow, embodies hopefulness and reassurance in a climate of change.

FontShuffle 1.0, FontShop’s new application for iPhone and iPod Touch, is the world’s fastest source of typographic inspiration. Combining the knowledge of the analogue world with new advanced possibilities of the digital mobile world, it offers new ways of finding and comparing typefaces, and of composing text samples.

Tuesday morning, December 2nd, 2008, Günter Gerhard Lange passed away in Munich, aged 87. Lange was one of the important type designers and typographers of the 20th century.

With Christmas now officially less than a month away it is time to look around for some presents for yourself or your type-lovin’ partner, friend, or relative. These few items are a start, but feel free to add suggestions to our little compilation.

Character size, measure, typeface … these are all generally accepted as being factors that influence legibility. Yet the study “The uncrowded window of object recognition” by New York University neuro-scientists Denis G. Pelli & Katharine A. Tillman published in scientific journal Nature Neuroscience advances the thesis that character spacing is the defining factor for legibility.