Florian Fecher

@grautesk@typo.social
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#EsadType alumnus about schrift and life beyond.
Typefacehttps://type-together.com/lektorat
LanguagesDE, EN, FR, learning RU

Look at that: Wilco the band selling a font! A friendly thing by @simplebits

https://wilcostore.com/products/loft-sans-font?_pos=2&_sid=d1abfb316&_ss=r

Loft Sans Font

US-based Monotype accused of surcharging Japanese fonts

After discontinuing a previous license plan, Fontworks' new US-owned parent company Monotype is accused of overcharging for integration of Japanese fonts.

Game Developer
@nicksherman @grautesk @typemytype @IceCubesApp Hi Nick, actually, on iPhone and iPad, you can also set custom fonts in the Mona app. You can even set fonts that you installed via 3rd-party apps.
New on the blog (and following on from Doug's post last week): @onpaperwings with the story behind Gotham. Tobias’ design began with a scattering of found signage around New York, and became one of the decade’s most influential typefaces. https://frerejones.com/blog/designing-gotham

Of course, $5 is far too little to pay for regularly using a library of fonts. I believe, like many of you, that type is already devalued these days. This option might be sustainable only if it’s limited to folks who need Adobe Fonts occasionally.

As always, if you want a font for frequent or long term use, get it direct from the foundry.

Want to use the Adobe Fonts service but don’t want to pay $70/month for Creative Cloud? You can subscribe to InCopy for $5/month (which includes Adobe Fonts): https://www.adobe.com/plans/creativecloud.html#miniplans-buy-incopy

Just learned this from @tphinney: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/70606/#Comment_70606

Adobe plans and pricing for creative professionals

If you thought the a ring acute was a banger, here’s the a ring macron, a dieresis macron, and also separation between modifier letter vertical line and modifier letter turned comma.

W is for Wednesday and ... rasterization. Spread for W in Kelli Anderson’s fantastic Alphabet in Motion. The entire book is an inncredibly impressive effort in many ways – creativity, design, production – and on top of that Anderson manages to keep everything practical and understandable for type newbies and accurate for seasoned type folks.

#typespecimens #KelliAnderson #typography #popup

Did you know the typeface Gotham turns 25 years old next year?

Did you know the inspiration for Gotham started from a single sign on the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC?

Did you know Gotham was nearly named “Equator” or that Tobias Frere-Jones was concerned that the name “Gotham” was too connected with Batman comic books to be taken seriously?

Grab a coffee and spend 20 minutes reading my article over three years in the making:

https://frerejones.com/blog/designing-gotham

Designing Gotham

The story behind the Gotham type family

“This article was amended on 10 December 2025 to refer more correctly to Times New Roman and Calibri as typefaces, rather than fonts.” My type of humour.

#Calibri #TimesNewRoman
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department

Typeface of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman

Memo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’

The Guardian