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Handmade Typefaces by Nicky Laatz

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:57:04 +0200

Handmade Typefaces by Nicky Laatz
Nicky Laatz is a type designer known for natural, handmade typefaces.
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Yes, the Fujifilm X100VI Camera Was Worth the Wait, and Three Days on the Trail Proved It

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:09:28 +0200

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Yes, the Fujifilm X100VI Camera Was Worth the Wait, and Three Days on the Trail Proved It
We took the Fujifilm X100VI hiking through Saxon Switzerland for three days—storms, sandstone ridges, and all. Here’s what held up.
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One Moment Font by AnMark

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:16:44 +0200

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One Moment Font by AnMark
One Moment is a handwritten script font by AnMark, sold on Creative Market for $19, inspired by classic calligraphy and penmanship. It features graceful, restrained strokes, multilingual support, and a personal/commercial license, making it a strong fit for logos, perfume and beauty branding, editorial headlines, and wedding stationery—though it’s better suited to short phrases and hero moments than dense body copy.
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The Graphic Design Bible By Theo Inglis

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:55:02 +0200

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The Graphic Design Bible By Theo Inglis
The Graphic Design Bible (Prestel, October 2023, 320 pages) is Theo Inglis’s single-volume primer on graphic design, covering roughly 150 years of history across five chapters: History, Theory, Practice, Typography, and Mediums. Each topic gets its own illustrated two-page spread with images, a short essay, quotes, and further-reading suggestions, moving from Bauhaus and Gestalt theory through to social protest graphics and social media design. Inglis, a design lecturer at the University of Suffolk and author of Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design, aims for breadth over depth, making it a fast, visual crash course rather than an academic deep-cut. It’s best suited to students, self-taught designers, and professionals wanting a refresher and less suited to anyone looking for a hands-on process or business manual.
The book is available on Amazon.
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The Creative Brief Template by Studio Monova Actually Holds Up Across Six Apps

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:43:12 +0200

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The Creative Brief Template by Studio Monova Actually Holds Up Across Six Apps
A 16-slide creative brief campaign presentation template by Studio Monova, built on a 12-column editorial grid in InDesign and exported to work across Canva, Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint, and Affinity Publisher. Covers the full brief sequence (objectives, audience, positioning, messaging, creative direction, timeline, deliverables, budget) at 1920x1080 with theme color switching and drag-and-drop image editing. Preview photography isn’t included.
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Gotham Variable Font by Hoefler & Co.

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:23:14 +0200

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Gotham Variable Font by Hoefler & Co.
Gotham Variable is Hoefler & Co.’s 25th-anniversary update to the Gotham typeface, released through Monotype (which now owns Hoefler & Co.). It converts the family’s fixed weights and widths into continuous, sliderable axes inside a single consolidated font file, adds 54 new intermediate styles plus a new Compact width, and expands language support to include Vietnamese and enhanced Cyrillic. It’s available now through Monotype Fonts, Monotype Connect, and MyFonts. The upgrade only touches core Gotham—Gotham Office, Gotham Rounded, Gotham Rounded SSm, and Gotham SSm remain unchanged static families.
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CERT Branding by Ensemble studio

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:22:18 +0200

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CERT Branding by Ensemble studio
Steven Waring and Martin James Power of Ensemble studio worked on this unique brand identity for CERT Property—one of the largest independent property investment, management, and development businesses in Manchester, UK.
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Smart Home Lighting Systems Worth Paying Attention To

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:05:38 +0200

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Smart Home Lighting Systems Worth Paying Attention To
Smart home lighting’s real 2026 story is restraint, not specs, now that Matter lets one bulb pair across Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa, and SmartThings at once.
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Animetry Font Family by SynType

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:48:39 +0200

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Animetry Font Family by SynType
Animetry is SynType’s modern serif family, built for branding, editorial, fashion, beauty, wedding stationery, packaging, and luxury work. It ships in 9 weights, 300+ glyphs, multilingual support, and an OpenType feature set with ligatures, punctuation, and contextual numerals.
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The Rue Logo Kit by Studio Standard

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:35:10 +0200

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The Rue Logo Kit by Studio Standard
The Rue Logo Kit is a 24-template logo pack from Studio Standard, built for both Canva and Adobe Illustrator, with a matching brand presentation board included. It suits fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands chasing a minimal, editorial look best and works as a fast, professional starting point rather than a fully custom identity.
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GC Methane Font Family

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:16:44 +0200

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GC Methane Font Family
GC Methane is a variable geometric sans serif type system from Onyx Studio, with a wide weight range, multilingual support, and OTF/TTF/webfont formats. It’s built to work across UI, editorial, and branding contexts rather than as a single-purpose display font — solid small-size legibility and weight consistency, competent but not maximally distinctive at lighter weights, best paired with something bolder if you need a truly standout brand voice.
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I built a full ebook in Affinity’s free Layout persona instead of InDesign. Here’s exactly what…

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:41:46 +0200

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I built a full ebook in Affinity’s free Layout persona instead of InDesign. Here’s exactly what worked, what didn’t, and why
The article compares Adobe InDesign and Affinity’s unified Layout persona through a hands-on test—building a real ebook in Affinity instead of InDesign. It covers what Affinity handles well (master pages, styles, EPUB export), what’s missing (GREP, Data Merge, scripting), where InDesign still leads (typography engine, prepress maturity, Firefly AI integration), and introduces four named frameworks (Layout Sufficiency Threshold, Persona Switch Cost, Typographic Ceiling, Workaround Tax) to help readers decide which tool fits their own project.
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A thorough, hands-on review of Mihoko Iida’s Japanese Interiors Book

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:40:05 +0200

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A thorough, hands-on review of Mihoko Iida’s Japanese Interiors Book
Japanese Interiors (Phaidon Press, October 2022) is Mihoko Iida’s survey of twenty-eight private homes across Japan, ranging from compact Tokyo apartments to mountain and seaside retreats. Iida, Vogue Japan’s executive features editor, documents both traditional dwellings and contemporary spaces, showing how Japanese residential design keeps evolving while staying rooted in the idea of building around the natural landscape. Featured architects include Kengo Kuma, nendo, Koji Fujii, Arata Endo, and Takamitsu Azuma. The 256-page hardcover pairs Iida’s essays with contributions from Japan-based writer Danielle Demetriou.
The book is available on Amazon.
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Postcards From Portugal Font by Nicky Laatz

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:37:33 +0200

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Postcards From Portugal Font by Nicky Laatz
Postcards From Portugal is a handwritten script typeface by Nicky Laatz (Creative Market), built around a rough, penned line inspired by travel and coastal life. It ships with OpenType alternates and ligatures for authentic variety, plus light, narrow/compact, and oblique variants—making it especially strong for packaging, short-name logos, stationery, and warm, lifestyle-driven branding, with minor legibility trade-offs at very small sizes.
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LUCETTE Designer Resume Kit

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:15:15 +0200

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LUCETTE Designer Resume Kit
A hands-on test of the LUCETTE Resume Kit by Studio Standard, covering typography, Canva vs InDesign performance
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From Type to Logo by Victionary

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:52:52 +0200

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From Type to Logo by Victionary
A hands-on review of Victionary’s From Type to Logo, testing its wordmark case studies against real studio work and two original design frameworks.
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Polisha Reynold Font Family by Bosstype Studio

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:32:05 +0200

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Polisha Reynold Font Family by Bosstype Studio
Polisha Reynold is a 324-style modern serif superfamily by Mu Fazzal for Bosstype Studio, pairing elegant high-contrast letterforms with genuine range across weight, width, and display/text optimization. It’s strongest for luxury branding, editorial publishing, and packaging systems and less suited to neutral utilitarian text work.
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Dakar Institute of Design — Visual Identity by The Branding People

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:17:14 +0200

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Dakar Institute of Design — Visual Identity by The Branding People
The Dakar Institute of Design is an extension of Dakar Design Hub, an integrative design space providing high-quality design education and services to creative professionals. The creative people of the branding people created a bold and bright visual identity inspired by distinctive textile patterns of the region that are showcased through bright monochromatic contrasts.
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How to Restore Old Photos in Photoshop

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:33:26 +0200

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How to Restore Old Photos in Photoshop
The article compares Photoshop’s Photo Restoration Neural Filter and Generative Fill against manual retouching (Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, Content-Aware Fill), based on hands-on testing across three damage levels.
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Edition Font by Funtype Co.

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:55:02 +0200

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Edition Font by Funtype Co.
Built for headlines, posters, album covers, and sports graphics. It’s tall, tight, and bold, with strong performance above 32pt but no lowercase set and a few kerning gaps at large sizes (AV/AW pairs). Best paired with a light grotesk for body copy.
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