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From the Gamified Classroom to the Typographic Discovery: Inside the SLOType 2026 Challenge
The primary purpose of Exercise 2 (EX2): Letterforms Analysis (with the SLOType workshop/method) is to have students respond to a creative brief generated by the SLOType web application by drawing and analyzing a mini-word (3 to 5 letters). The specific objectives are: This is all done (or intended) to be done briefly after a brief…
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2026 Case Study and Morphological Analysis
Following an extensive introductory overview of typographic history and the evolution of letterforms over the last 500 years, the Course Exercise 1 initiates the curriculum by requiring students to conduct a comprehensive morphological and structural analysis of a typeface of their choosing. The analytical framework demands a structured layout—typically utilizing a visual illustration on the…
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Masterclass with Luís Bandovas
Masterclass with Luís Bandovas (Satori Type Foundry)From Sketch to System: The Workflow Between Graphic and Type Design. April 7, 11:30 AM — Auditorium PS01, FBAUP In this talk, Luís will share a bit of his working method and how graphic design influences and often serves as inspiration for the creation of new typefaces. It stems…
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2025 Display Type Explorations
A Typographic Showcase from the first assignment of the 2025 edition of the Masters’ in Graphic Design & Editorial Projects Type Design course. In the first major assignment of the Typeface Design course, students are challenged to design a display typeface beginning with a test word — typically “Raphesion123” — and develop a Variable Font…
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Type Specimen Test Sheet
Check out this very complete (and very useful) type specimen testing template [sheet] from Type Heist: https://typeheist.co/blog/type-testing-template/ This is the template I use to test all Typeheist fonts. As I added more and more characters and multi-linguals, I needed an easy way to test my typefaces without recreating the same thing each time (or worse…
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Vercetti Regular
A nice new type from Filippos Fragkogiannis that reminds me of Kobalt, the final master’s project from Teresa Zagalo. Not only this is an interesting new font, but also the online specimen is very well put together. Free to download and use (if only there was a variable font version!…) Vercetti is a sans serif…
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Redaction: an original approach to variable font masters
This year’s edition of the Fontstand Conference was an amazing one-day event! The culture, design, and typefaces presented by internationally acclaimed type designers were mind-blowing. One such presentation was Jeremy Mickel’s. He presented us with this fantastic typeface. As a hybrid revival of Times and Century, it is an excellent Case Study to be further…
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Unbounded: a new open source variable font
Unbounded, a recent typeface constitutes the kind of work expected from FBAUP’s typeface design students. Especially considering the contents and presentation in the interactive digital specimen. Although not explicitly sourced from historical exemplars (thus… not really a revival as we do in the master’s course), the type specimen presents the concept, anatomy features, character set,…
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Communication Arts award for Loretta Type Familly
The Loretta typeface family, designed by Joana Correia and Abel Martins — a former award-winning student from the MDGPE master program—, now working with Joana Correia at Nova Type Foundry, was awarded a Communication Arts (CA) prize in the 2022 Typography competition. A heartfelt congratulations to both, and a special thank you for promoting the…
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Results from the calligraphy workshop
In the past week, we hosted a calligraphy workshop, lectured by the visiting Design teacher and Ph.D. researcher Maíra Woloszyn. It was a one-day workshop, divided into two morning and afternoon sessions, where participants created their own tools —in order to better understand the relation between the stroke mark and its tool marker—, and were…