Type resources for designers and brand owners
Webinar series: Talking creative collaboration with UK Type Director Tom Foley
Today’s creative departments and agencies have their hands full. Watch now and hear from UK Type Director Tom Foley, who will outline some of the challenges facing modern creative teams, and walk through solutions your brand can consider.
What’s in a letterform?
A letter is more than the sum of its parts, but sometimes it helps to know what those parts are called. And it may not surprise you to learn that in a field as meticulous as typography, every little piece of a letter has a name.
James Sommerville keynote at Brand Talks Connected.
James Sommerville talks through his career, from Prince Charles and Attik all the way through Coca-Cola, and shares his perspective on design and branding.
How fonts can help your customers feel right at home.
When it comes to your brand, your customers aren’t just evaluating your logo or your colors or the typography, they’re evaluating how your brand makes them feel. More than anything, brands are built on feelings—all the thought you put into design and the experience is simply in service of creating a feeling.
What’s a store for? Rethinking retail in the lockdown era.
As people—and brands—continue sprinting toward digitally immersed experiences, a human, personal online presence will make a big difference. Here’s how can design help make that possible.
Behind the creation of FS Renaissance, with Craig Black and Pedro Arilla.
FS Renaissance is a handcrafted display font where each letter stands alone as a piece of art. Craig and Pedro recently shared their perspective on the concepts and creative process behind FS Renaissance.
Variable Fonts at The One Club for Creativity.
Tom Rickner delivers a presentation on the now and tomorrow of variable fonts.
The Time Is Now.
No matter how you look at it, 2020 will be a year that is studied in the history books. From a global pandemic, to economic instability, to mental health challenges, all of us are finding ourselves navigating an increasingly challenging and frightening world.
Meet the Monotype Studio.
Get to a glimpse inside the Monotype Studio—the people, the process, and the problems they can solve for brands.
How brands can stand out amidst the digital noise.
With seemingly every business in the world launching apps, online services, and other digital properties as they cope with disruptions from the COVID crisis, many brands are likely wondering how they can stand out from all the sudden digital noise.
Monotype Agrees to Acquire URW Type Foundry.
We’re very excited to share that Monotype has agreed to acquire URW Type Foundry, a subsidiary of Global Graphics PLC. Based in Hamburg, Germany, URW is an innovative font and software provider, with extensive experience in designing and engineering fonts to service the needs of global brands. We’re proud to welcome the team to the Monotype family.
Know more, worry less: Understanding IP in the creative process.
Brands today are connecting with customers across countless touchpoints – from LED billboards, to smartwatch apps to magazine ads. This provides countless opportunities for graphic designers and creative professionals to work on exciting projects, but designing for multiple environments at once has its challenges, too.
How design and creativity can help meet this moment.
Perhaps the biggest challenge is not figuring out how to return to whatever “normal” used to look like, but how to let go of the vision we held for the future we thought we’d have.
What are font superfamilies and why do we need them?
Font superfamilies are vast collections of type that can meet a multitude of needs without compromising on consistency. But what defines a superfamily, exactly?
Tiny reminders to stay home.
Typography is an important component of great design. And for designers, selecting the right type can be an enormous challenge with so many varying styles and weights to choose from. To help, pangrams are often used to quickly get an overview of what a particular font looks like in use.
Meet Macklin.
Malou Verlomme’s Macklin superfamily is a gently irreverent take on the display type of the late 19th century, with an elegant twist that updates these letterforms for modern use. Choose one style, or use the entire variable family as a type toolbox.
TypeNotes issue no. three is available for download.
TypeNotes is a love letter to letterforms, a journal dedicated to typography and graphic design.
Fonts for games
Fonts in games have a subjective role, helping to convey the theme and atmosphere of a game while shaping expectations about its content. And there’s the more practical job of conveying information quickly, legibly, on any kind of screen and in multiple languages, so that no one gets left behind or in the lurch.