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From the site: “In more smartphones, tablets, and other devices, it’s how you interact with what’s on the screen that matters most, as products keep evolving to fulfill new roles and offer new user experiences. In response, and to enliven a variety of other touchpoints with consumers, we have developed an original typeface. Join us behind the scenes to see what the project was all about.”

Chris Cheng-Huan Wu will lead a workshop introducing designers to typesetting Chinese, including an overview of Chinese typefaces that are available, current trends in type design and use, and basic principles of Chinese typography. Participants will hear about current practices, will typeset display type and text in Chinese, and will have their efforts analyzed in critiques. February 8th at the Type Directors Club in New York.

Paris-born Philippe Apeloig will be giving a presentation on February 20th at the Type Directors Club in New York.

A quick little tutorial by the folks at Fairgoods featuring their friend, the talented Cody Swinkels.

We’re disappointed, but the show goes on.

A proposal by Terence Eden and Joe Loughry to add the IEC Power Symbol and its associated siblings to the next version of the Unicode specification.

The MyFonts wordmark was designed in 2008 by Underware, [and] six years later, we’re pleased to announce a new addition to the the MyFonts logo family. The goal was to create a [sub]mark that would work well at very small sizes.

In [responsive web design], the proportions and rhythm of your body, headers, and measure deserve as much attention as margins, floats, and media queries. Jason Pamental explains why.