Bittersweet mood at Berlin’s #Buchstabenmuseum today, with lots of folks paying a last visit before it closes for good.
https://www.buchstabenmuseum.de/en/visit/

The museum is looking for long-term storage for its collection. You can support it by donating: https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/118807-rettung-gebauter-schriftzuege

#Berlin #lettering #letters #signs #typography

Puffin Arcade is a family of bitmap fonts designed by @cakelab and released by @boldmonday. 11 of its 12 styles can be combined in layers for chromatic effect.

That’s exactly what designer Julika Altmann did for the headlines in an article celebrating the 40th birthday of #SuperMario.

See more at @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/71910/super-mario-s-40th-birthday-article-in-die-ze
… or read the full article at @ZEITONLINE:
https://www.zeit.de/2025/38/super-mario-videospiel-40-geburtstag?freebie=e7eab888

#FontsInUse #BitmapFonts #fonts #Nintendo

Re-reading the interview with Jim Parkinson that Jan Middendorp did back in 2008. Two kind giants in their fields.

The original newsletter is here: https://www.myfonts.com/pages/newsletters-cc-200804
… but better get your hands on the Creative Characters book: it has an 8-page article with more material (not to mention 25 more insightful conversations with type designers). Design by @nicksherman and @anthony_noel and typeset in @underware’s Auto.

Koch-Antiqua is the #typeface used for Sigmund Freud’s International Journal of Psychoanalysis: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/68266/internationale-zeitschrift-fuer-psychoanalyse

There is no digitization of Koch-Antiqua yet that covers its full style range. @opentype seeks to fix this. He’s running a campaign to crowdfund a full-featured revival, to be released under an open source license. If you want to help get the campaign over the finish line, do so now: it will end very soon, on June 3, 2025, 3:26 PM CEST: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schriftkontor/koch-revival/
#fonts

Ampersands made from shells and stones, by @daveybot:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davemorris/albums/72177720312825189/

#lettering #ampersand #beach