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That brings us to the end … of this week’s news.

And in the “Kickstarter projects that refuse to quit or die” category, Scott Hutcheson is once more trying to get his Comic Sans documentary off the ground.

Have you kickstarted anything lately? You might be interested in supporting Type Porn a typography magazine that Sean Christensen would like to bring into existence.

On May 25 WebINK is hosting a meetup in Portland, Oregon.

SOTA has published the schedule for the sixth annual Type & Design Education Forum, held on July 7 as a part of TypeCon2011 in New Orleans.

In related news, Earl Kallemeyn is putting on a two-part workshop on letterpress business cards, June 15 and 25, in New York City.

If letterpress interests you, be sure to check out this video by Naomi Ross.

Not type, but typewriters: here are some lovely photographs of famous writers and their ostensible tools of choice.

Meet Greg Hitchcock, one of the people behind font technology at Microsoft.

The Type Studio has released the May issue of All Things Typographic.

Michael Deal and Juan Carlos Pagan discuss the design of the Pinterest logo.

Robert Bringhurst’s Solid Form of Language is now available in French.

Paul Shaw introduces us to Kai Bernau and Nikola Djurek.

Norman Hathaway reviews Roger Black’s work for Rolling Stone.

Blair Thomson interviews Phil Garnham for Typetoken.

In the unlikely event that your Typekit-related world seems to come crashing down, be sure to check the new Typekit status site.

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Fontdeck explains how to use media queries with webfonts.

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Heavier and far less portable is this TV-based typeface by Jack Archer.

Kristyan Sarkis discusses the intricacies of Arabic calligraphy and type design.

Waiting for something? Card games help pass the time, and now you can do it in Swiss style with Helveticards.

With this ring, I thee lead! Underware has launched TypeRings.

Do you know where you’re going? These East German traffic sign typefaces can help point the way.

To catch up with what’s been happening, be sure to check out Dan Reynolds’ coverage. When you’re all ready to print or otherwise publish your work, it would probably be wise to consult this handy new typographic checklist from the Type Studio.īlissed out yet? Well, then, be sure to check out the rest of this week’s news: And to get a better sense of a typeface for your own purposes, you could try out the beta of FontShop’s new custom sample toolbar. To find related typefaces, you might use Veer’s new font finder. Dan Mall has some great advice in this regard. With this incessant deluge of new typefaces, it’s always more difficult to settle on the perfect type for a project.

And we weren’t kidding about comprehensive … this type system is comprised of a whopping 420 fonts in all. Elementar brings unheard of flexibility to screen fonts by allowing the user to explore and choose amongst height, weight, width, style, contrast, and curious element parameters. When we came across Elementar, Gustavo Ferreira’s “parametric” pixel font, we were simply blown away by its comprehensiveness and execution.