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Climate Crisis Font by Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
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Design

This climate crisis font melts alongside Arctic ice

Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has designed an adjustable typeface that mirrors the melting ice caps in the Arctic to illustrate the urgency of climate change in a tangible way.

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Design

This font can improve your memory

A team of researchers have developed Sans Forgetica, a typeface that draws on the principles of cognitive psychology to help readers remember their notes.

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Marketing & Branding

Font of truth

New York – Advertising agency J Walter Thompson has created a new typeface designed to encourage reflection on the fake news phenomenon.

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Technology

Noto

The Noto Project is a collaboration between Google and Monotype that combines 800 languages in one type family.

Netsurvey branding by The Studio, Sweden
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Marketing & Branding

Workplays

No longer playing it safe, designers are beginning to challenge the typically sober and serious visual language used in the workplace and employment sector by injecting humour, wit and bold graphics into business branding.

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Technology

Fluid type

New York – Experimental typographer Craig Ward has collaborated with biochemist and photographer Linden Gledhill to create Fe203 Glyphs, a typeface produced by manipulating ferrofluid.

Iron Grill designed by End of Work, Australia
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Marketing & Branding

Flaming good branding

Australia – Design consultancy End of Work has created a lean and literal identity for Iron Grill, the latest fast food venture at the Optus campus at Macquarie Park, New South Wales.

Mice, ants and the lazy dog by FontFont
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Technology

True to type: Short film highlights the potential of web fonts

Berlin – Long ignored, typography is now coming into its own as graphic art, appreciated outside of the inner circle of font geeks. And although we often see explorations of typography in niche magazines, FontFont enlisted Stark Films to create a short film to show the potential of its catalogue of web fonts.

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Marketing & Branding

Vodka by nerds: US distillery embraces science

New York – The Industry City Distillery, located in an industrial part of Brooklyn known as Sunset Park, is proudly ‘made by nerds’, according to the website. The small-batch distillery uses a specially formulated method to create its uniquely flavoured vodka.