Mastodawn

In the font making soundtrack this week: a playlist consisting entirely of John Prine’s ‘Angel from Montgomery’ recorded by various singers and bands. There are *many*.

Tiro Typeworks 4d ago

Typographica 4d ago

Jim Parkinson died today. He was a prolific and astoundingly gifted lettering artist, type designer, and painter. I feel lucky to say he was also my friend.

https://typographica.org/on-typography/jim-parkinson-1941-2025/

Tiro Typeworks 5d ago

I recently came across this great photograph of my father teaching at Leeds College of Art in the late 1950s. Coincidentally, I was dressed very similarly.

Tiro Typeworks Jun 21

In case you needed another reason not to use Adobe’s ‘optical’ kerning setting.

https://github.com/microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/issues/38

Combining marks break Adobe ‘optical’ kerning · Issue #38 · microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface

This was reported by Tanya White (Gudangée Tláats’gaa), a graphic designer from the Haida Nation. I have tested and confirmed that this is not a font issue, but am recording it here as a known envi...

GitHub

Tiro Typeworks Jun 20

The Script Encoding Initiative now has a blog.

https://sei.berkeley.edu/blog/

Blog – Script Encoding Initiative

Script Encoding Initiative

Tiro Typeworks Jun 20

Of the general life lessons I have learned, the one most directly applicable to type design is ‘The more you tidy as you go along, the less of a mess you will have clean up later.’

Tiro Typeworks Jun 17

Typographics Jun 17

Don't forget to grab your free tickets to TypeLab. June 25–29, hosted online [Zoom meetings & Livestream] from Asia, Europe & Americas as well as in-person [with livestream] at The Cooper Union NYC. The schedule is posted: https://2025.typographics.com/typelab/

Tiro Typeworks Jun 16

Fontstand Jun 16

🔥 Fontstand is working on becoming a cooperative—co-owned and governed by the independent type foundries. No VCs. No middlemen. It’s a radical rethinking of how platforms should work—built on trust, equity, transparency, and shared success at its core.
🔗 https://fontstand.com/news/design-news/creating-the-fontstand-cooperative/