There are more type foundries out there than you might think. From small one-person studios to established independent foundries, the type-design landscape is full of people making and publishing their own typefaces.

So we put together a list of type foundries and independent type designers worth knowing. 

If you’ve been using Glyphs 3 for a while, you’ve probably wondered when Glyphs 4 would finally arrive.

Well, that wait is almost over.

Glyphs 4 is currently available as a Public Preview. In other words, it’s a public beta where anyone who has a Glyphs 3 license can test the software, report bugs on the Glyphs Forum and help shape the final release.

Understanding the peculiarities of the Dutch ‘IJ’ digraph and implementing appropriate spacing and kerning rules is crucial to achieve optimal visual harmony and readability.

Glyphs is a popular font editor for Mac that allows you to create your own custom typefaces. It comes in two versions, Glyphs Mini and Glyphs 3, each with its own set of features and functionalities.

This document will give you an overview of the font proofing process and will help you to identify any technical issues that you may have.

This blog post discussed the importance of font spacing and kerning. It also provided a brief overview of the side bearing values for serif style fonts.

I love old type specimen books filled with stacked type in different sizes. In this post I’ll share with you how to create it super fast in Adobe Illustrator.

Optical sizes in typography explained

A list of my favorite Glyphs Plugins

New to font making, want to try out if this is something for you but don’t want to invest in learning complex font software? Fontself is an extension for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. It allows you to create (color) fonts without leaving your Adobe design software

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Use this list to showcase your own font or see how the different diacritics are used.