FF Ernestine is Nina Stössinger’s debut release. Wide & open letterforms sporting slab serifs, & a generous x-height ensuring its legibility even at the very smallest sizes. Topped with stylistic & contextual alternates, arrows, & two sizes of smallcaps — this is quite the recipe for a charming, robust, & versatile text face.

Available in four weights — Light, Regular, Demibold, & Bold — with complimentary italics, & even an Armenian counterpart, drawn by Hrant Papazian. For further information, visit the FF Ernestine mini-site, or FontFont.

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FF Ernestine

Codex now shipping

Some photos of Codex magazine.

More news coming soon! Buy yours here.

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Codex

Calls for Entries

New York – Diego Vainesman, President of the Type Directors Club, has announced that the fifty-seventh annual Type Directors Club competition, TDC57; the fourteenth annual TDC Typeface Design Competition, TDC2 2011, and TDC Intro 011, dedicated to movie title design, Calls for Entries, will not be mailed this year. Entry forms and instructions on the TDC web site.

The early bird deadline for all the competitions is Friday, December 17, 2010. In the design competition, there are several changes to the categories this year, one of which is Best in Show.

TDC57 is chaired by Roberto de Vicq (deVicqdesign). The jury includes: Art Chantry; Arem Duplessis (The New York Times); Fons Hickmann (Fons Hickmann m23, Berlin); Mario Hugo; Jason Kernevich (The Heads of State); Angela Voulangas, and Bruce Willen (Post Typography).

TDC2 2011 is chaired by James Montalbano (Terminal Design). His jury includes: Jos Buivenga (exljbris Font Foundry, The Netherlands); Jessica Hische, Steve Matteson (Ascender Corp.), and Charles Nix (Scott & Nix).
TDC Intro 011 is chaired by Jakob Trollbäck (Trollbäck & Company). The jury includes: Karin Fong (Imaginary Forces); Randy Balsmeyer (Big Film); Timmy Fisher (MK12), and Mark Kudsi (Motion Theory).

The winners works will appear in the Type Directors Club annual, Typography 32, designed by Matteo Bologna, Mucca Design, and published by Collins Design, an imprint of HarperCollins International. The annual will be available in bookstores.

The winning entries will also be exhibited in seven traveling shows beginning in the summer of 2011 in a New York City as well as in cities worldwide.

The Type Directors Club is a non profit professional organization, celebrating its sixty-fifth anniversary. TDC is dedicated to educating its international membership and graphic arts community about type, type design and its myriad of uses in the field of communications.

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Type Directors Club Annual Competition

Harder than it sounds

Surprisingly fun for such a simple app.

Free from the app store.

Before playing, you might want to read ILT’s Arial vs. Helvetica.

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Helvetica vs. Arial app

C’est gratuit!

Today is Jean-Luc Godard’s birthday. To Celebrate, Atelier Carvalho Bernau Design has just released JeanLuc, a typeface inspired by the titles for films like “Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle.” (1967).

The JeanLuc typeface is free, so download it now. Téléchargez et profitez-en!

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Jean-Luc (Godard)

New Fonts

The delightful new Capucine by Alice Savoie. Available through Process Type Foundry.

Related:
ILT’s interview with Alice.
Two minutes with Alice Savoie.

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Capucine

Letterpress in London

Reverting to Type from Lima Charlie on Vimeo.

Curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type will showcase the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world.

10th–24th Dec 2010 and 4th–22nd Jan 2011
Standpoint Gallery, London.

For more information see New North Press.

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Reverting to Type

Creative Review TV

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Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop

20 things I Learned

Is the future of e-books in the browser? This work for Google by Fi is pretty impressive.

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HTML5 Books?

Letterbox Projects

A series of eight cast iron manhole covers that tell the stories of the local community.

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Typographic Heavy Metal