A few months after #Monotype raided the foundry behind typography.com (#Hoefler #H&Co), a well-detailed article by design journalist #AnneQuito in media business #Quartz on the growing financial monopoly and worrying diversity voices of #NickShinn #TobiasFrereJones #PeterBilak and #NadineChahine, assertive as I've ever read it.
https://qz.com/2068310/what-monotypes-purchase-of-hoeflerco-means-to-font-designers/
#typography
#typography #NadineChahine #PeterBilak #TobiasFrereJones #NickShinn #quartz #AnneQuito #h #Hoefler #monotype
In the field of #typography and #type #technology, a publication of June 14 sparks the fire.
Below my attempt to list a chronology of subjectively chosen elements linked to it.
http://pads.osp.kitchen/p/type-blm
With #Alphabettes #blm #diversity #non-latin #scripts @kupfers @bb #HrantPapazian #Jean-FrancoisPorchez #JohnHudson #BehdadEsfahbod #harfbuzz #abuse #racism #colonialism #Adobe #SairusPatel #CFF2 #Microsoft #PeterConstable #svg #OpenType #Monotype #UFO #JuanVillanueva #tdc #TypeDirectorClub #BobbyCMartinJr. #EmmanuelBesse #Underware #NadineChahine #TanyaGeorge #Font and #Text #w3c #shaping #layout #encoding #formats #fonttools #FrederickBrennan #FontForge #StrokedFonts #StrokeFonts #Google #Facebook #Iran #ISO #OFF #specifications #specs #DaveCrossland #JamesClark #standard #LiangHai #AdamTwardoch #SimonCozens #VladLevantovsky #EricMuller and others.
#EricMuller #VladLevantovsky #SimonCozens #AdamTwardoch #LiangHai #standard #JamesClark #DaveCrossland #specs #specifications #off #iso #iran #facebook #google #strokefonts #StrokedFonts #fontforge #FrederickBrennan #fonttools #formats #encoding #layout #shaping #w3c #text #font #TanyaGeorge #NadineChahine #Underware #EmmanuelBesse #BobbyCMartinJr #TypeDirectorClub #tdc #JuanVillanueva #ufo #monotype #opentype #svg #PeterConstable #microsoft #CFF2 #SairusPatel #adobe #colonialism #racism #abuse #harfbuzz #BehdadEsfahbod #JohnHudson #jean #HrantPapazian #scripts #non #diversity #blm #Alphabettes #technology #type #typography