This is a great service for anyone who uses icon fonts in web design. Generating an icon font with a limited subset of icons makes the font size much smaller, thus improving the loading time of your site.

If you have a hard time making choices when combining fonts, Type Connection should be helpful for you. It is a little game designed to help you chose fonts and combine them. I personally didn’t find it too helpful to chose fonts, but it is very well done and give tons of information about fonts.

TypeButter allows you to set optical kerning for any font on your website. If you’re longing for beautifully laid out text that today’s browsers just don’t provide, this is the plugin for you!

Talk to any older typographer and you’ll see that he has a special relationship to his Linotype machine. The movie “Linotype”, coming soon, will maybe help you to understand these old typographers.

HandpaintedType is a project that is dedicated to preserving the typographic practice of street painters around India. These painters, with the advent of local DTP (Desktop Publishers) shops, are rapidly going out of business with many of them switching to the quicker, cheaper but uglier vinyls. Many painters have given up their practice altogether. The project involves documenting the typefaces of road side painters across India and digitizing it so that it serves as a resource for present and future generations. HandpaintedType is a collaborative project. If you’d like to contribute or collaborate, please get in touch.

Monotype Imaging Holdings is set to acquire the font business of rival Bitstream in a $50m (£32m) all cash deal that will leave Bitstream to focus on its Pageflex print automation tool and other software businesses.

You can read the article on PrintWeek.

A good opportunity to get some exposure, let your creativity explode, and eventually win a prize. If you are a talented designer and have some time on your hands, you should give a try to this contest.

If you like both robots and typography, you’ll be pleased with this bible-writing robot created by the fine people of robotlab in Zürich.

Georgia and Verdana had two things in common so far: they were designed by Matthew Carter and meant to be optimized for on-screen use. Now they have another thing in common, they each get a pro version.

The pro versions add many features like new weights, numerals, small caps and more.

If you are interested in getting those fonts, you can buy them on Fonts.com: Georgia Pro – Verdana Pro.

The International Printing Museum launched a Kickstarter project to save a collection of approximately 100 full fonts of antique Ludlow Typecasting matrices, catalog & organize the fonts into our working collection & digitize Ludlow Type Specimen books with notes on available fonts for letterpress projects.