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SlantedMONDAINE Doppio Watches: One typographic system, and the language of double MONDAINE, the brand that has turned the iconic design of the Official Swiss Railways Station Clock into a world-renowned timeless watch and clock collection, expands its Doppio collection with the…

I Love TypographySteven Heller’s Font of the Month: Dez Bollardian Read the book, Typographic Firsts At long last, I’ve found a newly conceived typeface that allows me to be accessible and expressive all within the same family.

Design ObserverTypography is an accessibility, usability, and customer care issue, says Charles Nix In Helvetica, the 3, 5, 6, and 9 share the same basic shape, so at small sizes they can be mistaken for one another.

I Love TypographyFont Faces: Stefan Hattenbach Read the book, Typographic Firsts Stefan Hattenbach was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1961. Although he’s moved around a lot, with longer stays in Budapest (1993–94) and San Francisco (2005–06), he’s…

AlphabettesType + Lettering

I Love TypographySteven Heller’s Font of the Month: Ege Basalt Read the book, Typographic Firsts I’ve forever fancied fat faces. And not just for the alliteration. And I’ve found the perfect weight in a comparatively new design with vintage flavor: the revival…

TypothequeFrom a trail of type to the Trail of Tears Typotheque type foundry, get unique, high quality fonts for print and screens directly from the designers. We also create custom (bespoke) fonts for most world's languages.

TypothequeNew typeface: Chairman Chairman is a utilitarian neo-grotesque that grows quieter at headline sizes and sparkier in running text, with three width systems that shape the rhythm of paragraphs.

AbduzeedoWeb Design: The Geist Font Specimen by Vercel

AbduzeedoTypography: Sausage Regular Display Serif by JFFF

AbduzeedoTypography: PP Altera Variable Typeface by Pangram Pangram

AbduzeedoInside Omlet: Brand Identity by Ragged Edge

AbduzeedoTypography: Gregory Grotesk by Jakob Runge & TypeMates

PRINTThe Daily Heller: Global Typographic Rarities Online auctions have come of age. They are generally the best means to find rare and important documents of design.

PAGE onlineSwiss Post Sans: Robustes Sprachtalent für die Schweizer Post Mehr als drei Jahre benötigte die Foundry Swiss Typefaces für die Entwicklung des Custom Fonts für die Schweizer Post. Das Ergebnis ist eine humanistische Interpretation Schweizer Präzision.

It's Nice ThatA2 Type adds Louisiana Museum of Modern Art to its repertoire of typefaces for iconic institutions Rigour and research underpin A2 Type’s typographic system, drawing directly from the museum’s architecture and extensive print archive.

Creative BoomHow Music founded a football identity on lettering found at London's oldest stadium Manchester agency Music and type foundry F37 turn hand-rendered lettering at Craven Cottage into a bespoke typeface and flexible identity. We find out more.

The DielineTour de Type: Vintage-Inspired Logotype, Satisfying Lockups, and a Brand Name Written with a Ribbon Another assortment of noteworthy typographic moments found last month, from wordmarks in projects we covered, to a title design for a book from the 80s.

Design WeekSTUDIO HERRSTRÖM draws on car culture and carton typography for Milkshake rebrand Milkshake was established in 2019 to offer musicians an alternative approach to traditional recording contracts, operating simultaneously as a record label and an artist management firm.

MorisawaJapanMorisawa Fonts Webフォントの無料トライアル参加企業を募集～AIエージェントを利用した体験も可能～ Morisawa Fonts Webフォントの無料トライアル参加企業を募集～AIエージェントを利用した体験も可能～

ÉtapesLa bonne typographie est-elle devenue un luxe ? Koto vient de lancer CcType avec une ambition affichée : proposer des caractères de qualité à des conditions suffisamment accessibles pour les indépendants et les petites structures.

AlphabettesTikte Typeface

I Love Typography

I Love TypographySteven Heller’s Font of the Month: Zinkraft Read the book, Typographic Firsts Massimo Vignelli was canonically adamant that a contemporary designer only requires a handful of typefaces and should “trash the rest.” He was talking about five to…

I Love Typography

I Love TypographySteven Heller’s Font of the Month: Loopy Read the book, Typographic Firsts I once taught a research/writing class called “No Google” that lasted until it dawned on me that “Google” was indeed the research tool for the 21st century.

Japan now

日本の今 · What's on view, what the Japanese-language press is covering, and this week's Japanese web — in English

On view

Japanese web this week from Responsive Web Design JP and MUUUUU

The wire AXIS and Japan Design Net, translated

How Japan designs in 2026 from Japanese studios' own trend reports

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About

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo