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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 14: Interval Type

Bonjour Paris! The type design community in Paris is buzzing and today, we’re looking at one of the younger foundries that has already received a lot of praise. Interval Type is the foundry of art director and type designer Ilya Naumoff. Before he founded Interval Type, Ilya...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 13: Newglyph

Newglyph is a type design studio based in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded by Ian Party and his team in 2019. If that name rings a bell, it’s because just yesterday, we looked at another foundry Ian co-founded: Swiss Typefaces. Newglyph is his latest endeavor and is focused on...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 12: Swiss Typefaces

Many type foundries claim to be offering innovative designs and flexible type systems. But few deliver on this promise like Swiss Typefaces does. Founded in 2005 in Lausanne by Maxime Büchi and Ian Party (first as B&P type foundry), who were later joined by Emmanuel Rey,...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 11: Sharp Type

Sharp Type is a digital type foundry based in New York City and was founded in 2015 by Chantra Malee and Lucas Sharp. Chantra is in charge of strategy, brand management, graphic design, sales, and communication for the foundry, while Lucas acts as type director. Before he go...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 10: Colophon Foundry

Colophon Foundry is a foundry based on London founded by Anthony Sheret and Edd Harrington. The two designers started working together in 2009 in a shared graphic design studio in Brighton and began designing their own typefaces for the projects of their studio The Entente. ...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 9: Commercial Type

Commercial Type is a custom type design studio founded in 2007 by Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, based in New York City and London. They have worked to build a growing library of excellent quality with “a balance between highly versatile ‘vanilla’ typefaces that can do ...

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🎧 Gnosis – Russian Circles

Russian Circles is the instrumental post-metal band I keep coming back to.

That middle riff in “Conduit” is just perfect!

Bandcamp

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 8: Letters from Sweden

Hej! Time to look at the next type foundry and this time, we travel to Scandinavia. Letters from Sweden, founded by self taught type designer Göran Söderström in 2011, is based in Stockholm and designs retail and custom typefaces for local and international clients. Instead ...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 7: Lineto

Founded in 1993 by Cornel Windlin and Stephan Müller, Lineto is Switzerland’s first digital type foundry. Over the last three decades, Lineto has collaborated with type designers from all around the world and shaped one of the most impressive and high-quality libraries avail...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 6: Ohno Type Company

Sometimes, it can take quite a while for a foundry to finally become sustainable. Sometimes, like in the case of James Edmondson, it can take 17 type families. James Edmondson started Ohno in 2015, “born from a love of expressive typography and craft.” And, as he shares in a...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 5: Milieu Grotesque

Milieu Grotesque was founded in 2010 by graphic and type designers Timo Gaessner and Alexander Colby in Zurich. Today, the foundry is based in Lisbon, Portugal. Milieu Grotesque’s typefaces are versatile and system-oriented but also have a distinctive and often slightly quir...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 4: TypeMates

TypeMates is a comparatively young foundry from Germany, founded in 2015 by Lisa Fischbach, Jakob Runge, and Nils Thomsen. Despite its young age, the foundry has already worked with large clients on custom typefaces and has managed to grow its catalogue of typefaces into an ...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 3: Klim Type Foundry

For day three, we travel to New Zealand, where Klim Type Foundry was founded in 2005 by type designer Kris Sowersby. After having worked a while as a graphic designer, Kris was contacted by Chester Jenkins from Vllg who wanted to release Kris’ first typeface Feijoa. It was p...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 2: Dinamo

Dinamo is another type foundry from Switzerland, founded by Fabian Harb and Johannes Breyer in Basel. After moving to Berlin for a few years, they now operate from different cities and via a network of satellite members across the globe. They don’t see themselves as a foundr...

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Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar – Day 1: Grilli Type

We’ll start the advent calendar with one of the most successful foundries of the last decade. Grilli Type is a Swiss type foundry that was founded in 2009 by Noël Leu and Thierry Blancpain. Today, the studio numbers eight people dispersed all across the globe. The foundry is...

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The Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar 2022

The independent type design community has grown tremendously over the last couple of years and the quality and variety of fonts is truly breathtaking. A little while ago, I started jotting down a few type foundries to have a list that I could come back to whenever I was in n...

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A Conversation With ChatGPT

I just had a casual chat with ChatGPT that I wanted to share with you. Many of the things I asked and the answers I received are related to a talk I gave last week at CSS Café. I wanted to know what an algorithm might think about all of this. Decide for yourself where this ...

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ChatGPT, please explain websites in the words of William Shakespeare

Websites, oh websites!

Thou art a vast and wondrous realm, filled with knowledge and information to be explored.

Thou art a tool for communication and connection, allowing us to share our thoughts and ideas with others across the globe.

Thou art a source of entertainment and delight, providing us with endless hours of distraction and enjoyment.

Websites, thou art a marvel of modern technology, a gift to humanity.

Long may thou reign!

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Generated with ChatGPT, which you can currently test for free during the research preview.

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Transient Frameworks

Since the first days of the Web, people have been thinking and debating hard about the best ways forward. The network, the protocols, the browsers, the documents, HTML, CSS, and Javascript – all those things are the result of years of countless discussions, fights, mistakes,...

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🎬 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

Movie poster for “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood”.
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.

Jason must stink for miles by now. It’s a miracle he’s still able to surprise-kill anyone at this point.

For me, same is true as with part 6: not the best, not the worst (I think?!). I somewhat liked the ending when Jason’s “face” is revealed and everything explodes. The supernatural hocus-pocus wasn’t that bad either.

Oh, yeah, and I found the very ending hilarious where the one firefighter shows the other where there’s more fire to extinguish – as if that wasn’t obvious.

On to part eight…