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15Nov

Monotype Imaging Acquires Bitstream Services

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Monotype Imaging Inc., a Massachusetts-based company dedicated to bringing together text imaging and graphics with electronic devices, has announced its plan to acquire the MyFonts.com website operated by Bitstream.The $50 million merger, which is being completed in cash, has already been approved by the boards that govern both companies, and will take place in the next coming days. Included in the merger are Bitstream’s 89,000 fonts, popular What’sTheFont identification program, its typeface library and its font rendering services, called Font Fusion and Bitstream Panorama. In addition to these popular programs, 15 Bitstream employees from the company’s Massachusetts site will be taken on by Monotype, as will 40 type designers from the facility in India. It is estimated that Monotype Imaging will benefit from the $17 million the parts of the Bitstream business it is taking over made in 2010, and the company expects much of that cash flow to become a part of its Creative Professional business venture.
25Oct

Mobile Typography for iOS Apps

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With technology changing everyday, design is changing the way we see everything. IOS devices hold the key to greatest applications for download to the IPhone or IPad. While on the go, you can download an app for the cheapest gas or the best restaurant based on reviews. With all of that convenience in our hands, it’s now easier than ever to create a mobile application incorporating your personal style using Mobile FontFonts. As a mobile application developer, the days of being shackled down by boring typography is over.

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11Oct

Hone Your Kerning Skills

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If you aren’t into graphic design, font layout, or any of those sorts of things, you might not know what the term ‘kerning‘ is. In design terms it is the visual style of setting space between letters in fonts. If you are still confused, go into your local word processor and type in the alphabet. The likelihood is that the letters have different distances between each letter. Those spaces are kerning.

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04Oct

Wikipedia’s Nifty New “W”

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Wikipedia is a pre-Prince Charming, electronic Cinderella; it’s our society’s knowledge-repository workhorse; but just like evil step-relatives, we take Wikipedia for granted, abase its usefulness, and regularly question about its reliability.

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27Sep

Web Font Awards

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The Web Font Awards contest is a skill-based contest opened for entry submissions on September 21, 2011. All entries to this contest must be received on October 28, 2011. This contest promotes awareness and adoption of Web font technology and all participants create a website that uses web fonts.

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09Aug

New Anti SPEC Campaign

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There’s a rebellion underway and it has nothing to do with politics or governments. Instead, it’s a creative revolution and the setting of this creative insurgency is the world of advertising, marketing and most specifically, creative design.

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02Aug

Font Book App

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FontShop has been announced the new FontBook iPad app as the world’s most comprehensive typographic reference tool. The new FontBook app has 620,000 font samples(19 times more than the printed FontBook 4). The FontBook app allows you to look up and view fonts by typeface name, type classification, designer name, foundry name, year of publication, or by similarity of design. One of the major advantages of the FontBook app is that it allows easy combining and comparing of typefaces, as well as one click to sharing over Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.

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