Have you ever cooked a meal at home and been delighted to find the perfect ingredient to complement your recipe? Maybe you forgot you had cilantro, crushed peanuts, or lemon juice, and it’s just the thing you needed to elevate your dish.
Long gone are the days of zipping up folders of font files and sharing them across your organization, or even messier, embedding fonts in documents in the cloud in hopes that the design remains intact. We recently announced an expanded set of licensing rights which allows all employees within an organization to access Commercial Production Fonts in their desktop environments.
This week we’re welcoming Andrew Krivine, author and punk rock collector, alongside Michael Worthington, faculty at CalArts and co-founder of Counterspace. The creative duo is here to tell the tale of how they co-created the largest exhibition of punk and new wave graphics ever shown on the West Coast.
Over the past four years, we’ve been lucky to forge a reciprocal partnership with the Limerick School of Art & Design / TUS in Ireland. Both Creative Type Directors Tom Foley and Emilios Theofanous have now participated in workshops and modules at the leading fine art, design and creative media school. This year’s students were asked to write a message platform for one typeface and build a marketing plan and design assets to promote it in digital or print media.
Rebranding a business is not for the faint of heart. It’s an enormous operation that requires significant time and investment while offering the possibility of totally revitalizing a brand.
Legibility is a crucial consideration when trying to choose a font for your project. Here’s how to find a legible font that will be easy on the eyes for your readers and customers.
Launching a website or app? Your font choice is key to your success. Here’s how to assess the legibility, consistency, performance, and longevity of your font choice.
Find design inspiration in an age of information overload.
In this article, get a peek at recent and upcoming book releases in a variety of genres to get a sense of what typography styles are trending in publishing right now. This post is a guest piece from our friends at Reedsy, a website that connects authors with publishing professionals.
Today’s brands must keep up with a fast-paced digital world and navigate a “new normal” that’s still emerging from the worst of the pandemic. The last few years shifted everyone’s digital expectations, how brands operate, and in some cases, impacted their business models. Moreover, issues like biodiversity, sustainability, diversity and equity, and brand activism are all booming. So how does this all impact brand building? These macro shifts are greatly influencing how companies position themselves, the services they offer, and how they communicate with their customers.
Here’s the story of Field Notes, in all of its 3½ × 5½-inch glory, from co-founder Jim Coudal. Tune in now. No need to take notes (unless you want to, of course).
BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, has been transforming the lives of animals and humans around the world for over a century.
In the commercial printing world, nothing is more frustrating or less welcome than waste – wasted time, wasted materials, and wasted effort. Prepress systems can help streamline the process, but certain issues often slip through the cracks. And since one of the most common reasons for unwanted reprinting across prepress systems is faulty, incompatible or missing font files, we’re offering the following best practices.
There comes a time in every organization’s life when a makeover becomes essential.
Whether you’re a team of one or sit in a large organization, font licensing can be complicated and overwhelming.
This week on Creative Characters, host Graham Sturt sits down with graphic design icon and the father of grunge typography, David Carson. Tune in now.
Over the last year or so, Pearlfisher became a Monotype agency partner, and doing so has made life a lot easier for the Realization team. Read on to learn how Monotype Fonts has streamlined organizing font files and tracking licensing information for Pearlfisher.
Get to know Gabriela Parra Sánchez, the 2024 Beatrice Warde Scholarship recipient, an artist and illustrator in formation at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Read on for an interview with the promising young designer.
This week, Monotype’s Executive Creative Director, Tom Foley, sits down with renowned graphic designer Astrid Stavro to explore her captivating journey. Tune in now.