A Type Designer's Journal

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Jason Castle, founder of CastleType, has pursued many passions over the years: performing Medieval music and doing calligraphy and illuminating in his twenties, computer programming in his thirties, digital type design in his forties, returning to school in his fifties to get his masters in counseling psychology and even interning as a psychotherapist for a few years. But, after all his meandering, Jason finally realized what he wants to be when he grows up and has returned full-time to his first and truest love: type design. It is Jason's hope to share his delight in type design with others through this blog.

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Font Magazine 007

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Font Magazine is a beautifully designed publication from FontShop, all about type. It's available free in print form, viewable online, and also as a downloadable PDF. Issue 7 features type foundries: Porchez Typofonderie, Sudtipos, TypeTogether, PampaType, and Suitcase Type Foundry. It also has an interesting article about the free, do-it-yourself online type design tool, FontStruct, along with some amazing examples of fonts created using it. As world-renowned type designer, Erik Spikermann comments, "FontStruct shows how easy it is to play around with type, and how difficult it is to make real type."

Font Magazine 007 is available, along with earlier issues, on the FontShop website: http://bit.ly/wSdw3