Co-founder @fontself Onwards to empower one billion type designers 🤘 Welcome to #typocracy !
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Starting today, creatives can now entirely draw, refine and publish a font right from their iPad, and anywhere they want: from 🏠, under a 🌳, in their 🛌, in a 🚌 or even during the 🚽 break ;)
Have fun & make fonts wherever you want 🤘
✨ Making fonts on the go is now way more fun & easy! 🥳 10 new features in Fontself on iPad 2.0:
✒️ Nib Editing: precisely tweak each node point
↔️ Manual Spacing & Kerning: adjust how letters flow
📝 Custom Font Templates: create your own styles
+ 7 more
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Franz Hoffman retweeted
🏆 Winners will be announced tomorrow ⏰
WOW! So many cool projects were submitted to our #FunWithFontself contest with @36daysoftype
The fonts that have been created within the Fontself app on iPad are really amazing! 🤩
Tough to pick winners but stay tuned by tomorrow…
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Draw fonts while traveling.
Yup, that's a thing now!
✍️+🚗 by Ellie Heywood
#36daysoftype10 #fontself #funwithfontself #typography #typedesign #remotework #remotelife
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🗓 Let's meet in NYC for 2 type-making meetups on Sun. 26 & Mon. 27 🙌
Hosted by the awesome letterpress printers @bowneprinters at @SeaportMuseum
👇🏼Details below in the 🧵 1/3
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Franz Hoffman retweeted
Love seeing projects like this come together. Make font. Sync Font.
🌈 💥 Yes! You can now sync vector fonts you make with @Fontself Maker in @Illustrator via the @CreativeCloud and use them across @Adobe products like the cool new #IllustratoroniPad or @AdobeFresco - just announced at #AdobeMAX
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24–27 Sept 2020 = @typewknd ⭐️
A free online conference on all sorts of type, lettering and typography topics: from visual design to culture, politics, education and more
Book your spot
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typewknd.com/register/
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#typography #graphicDesign #designEducation
ALT Web promo: “TypeWknd conference 24-27 September 2020. A free global online conference”
ALT Sat 26 Sept talk on decolonising typography. By Tapiwanashe Sebastian Garikayi
ALT Sat 26 Sept talk on baselines being overrated. By Craig Eliason
ALT Sun 27 Sept talk on exploring progressive politics through writing and graphic design. By Charity Pragya and Aarman Roy
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Learn more about the democratization of type-making on the YouTube live channel TypeLab from @TypographicsNYC
We're going live in half an hour!
youtube.com/watch?v=1fHRLRVM…
#typelab #typelab2020 #typographics2020
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I have been using @fontself for a while within my workflow at creating fonts. This tool is a plugin for Adobe Illustrator, that allows you to turn an alphabet into a working font seamlessly. Total game changer! 👉🏼fs.tl/martinarocks #fontself #madewithfontself #typedesign
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Life is too short to spend time on nerdy tasks like kerning 🤓
One more step on our quest to bring easy font creation to all designers. Welcome to #typocracy !!!
⏰ BIG TIME SAVER! Set the spacing & kerning of your fonts in one click with Fontself Maker 3.5: fontself.com/blog/spacing-ke…
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Make quality fonts in no time. ✅
#SneakPeek Space & kern your fonts in seconds! ⚡️
Introducing Smart Spacing & Kerning, your newest time-savers. Enjoy making fonts while getting professional results in a snap.
Coming next to Fontself Maker.
#typography #typedesign #AdobeMAX
Franz Hoffman retweeted
🍿 VIDEO TIPS: How to Turn Handmade Lettering into a Real Font, Like a Pro!
astutegraphics.com/fontself
Thrilled about this collaboration with @Will_Paterson10 & @astutegraphics about making quality #fonts in @Illustrator
Come see & learn more at our #AdobeMAX booth 521 🤓
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A new 🎁 for everyone, just in time for #AdobeMAX ! 🙏 to everyone who helped us 🚀 the very first third-party OpenType-SVG color font 🌈 on @AdobeFonts. We ❤️ you all.
YES! The Gilbert font is now available to all on Adobe Fonts 🎉
fonts.adobe.com/fonts/gilber…
#TypeWithPride #Pride
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Can’t wait to meet new friends, talk type and showcase some of the wonderful fonts #MadeWithFontself over the past 4 years, since our successful bootstrap on @Kickstarter
👋 We'll be at the #AdobeMAX conference on BOOTH #521 from Nov. 4–6 in Los Angeles.
🎂 To celebrate our 4th anniversary, we'll also give away a book featuring 100+ amazing cool new fonts created by our user community. Stay tuned :)
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Let's bring easy type-making to your favorite school 💖👩🎓
62% OFF our EDU Bundle this month: fontself.com/education-quote
Please RT or mention your fav school/teacher below 😇
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Franz Hoffman retweeted
Uh, @GoogleChrome Are you planning to support #OpenTypeSVG soon? Supported in Safari (12+), Firefox (26+) even EdgeHTML (38+) Photoshop, Illustrator - but not Chrome
/cc @colorfontswtf
ALT The word "please" in Magical Unicorn color font
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@chrija Now, there’s finally a font for 🦄 chasers (because not everyone is into 🐭 🦌 or 🐘 ;)
Get it from m.fontself.com/J9dSgJrrhU
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So thrilled to partner again with the great folks from @Adobe and @Illustrator ! Happy #valentines week everyone 😘
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“Stormvloed is a geometric grid-based display typeface, strong and functional like the famous Dutch Deltawerken, with many alternate letters to play around with”. This font by Freshco has been featured in Foam Magazine #madewithfontself
buff.ly/2RTHUn6
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