FYTI: The Manual: Two-Story Type

This month's fyTi newsletter learn all about Two-Story Type [MyFonts.com]( [View in Browser]( [Hot New Fonts]( [Best Sellers]( [What's New]( [Special Offers]( [Bundles]( [WhatTheFont]( [MyFonts fyTi]( This month's fyTi newsletter learn all about Two-Story Type The Manual The basic shapes of the Roman Alphabet are pretty consistent. They may be embellished with serifs, ball terminals, swashes, and such, but a B is pretty much an upright stroke and two bowls. The m is basically an n with an additional hump and the n looks like an h with the ascender cut off... [Continue reading]( The Archives Font Field Guides - [FF Mark® Font Field Guide](: Ten weights with more than a thousand characters each, provide for a wide range of applications. Everything from advertising and packaging and long form text to branding, on screen and in print is within FF Mark’s range of capabilities. - [Univers® Next Font Field Guide](: There are few applications outside of Univers Next range. It is an excellent choice for text and display content – in hard copy or on screen. The Manual - [Creative Paragraphings](: Indenting the first line of every paragraph is a habit most of us acquired in grammar school. Its purpose is to create a visual separation between paragraphs. The most commonly used indent is the first line indent. There’s no hard-and-fast rule about how much to indent your first lines, but the space should be proportionate to the size and column width of the text. - [Manual: It’s About Ampersands](: Typeface design is a relatively technical craft. It is about producing a series of interchangeable tools which always work in harmony no matter how they are combined. For the most part this puts a real damper on how creative a designer can get when it comes to drawing individual letterforms. Morning Read Creative Characters: - [Giuseppe & Paco](: Chat with font-designing partners Giuseppe Salerno, 43, and Paco Gonzalez, 46, of Resistenza (meaning: resistance) Type Foundry, based in Torino, Italy, and Valencia, Spain, and get a lesson in lettering history. The pair are dedicated to producing typefaces via an artisanal process — creating hand lettering through calligraphy — before digitizing the fonts for the contemporary market. Thanks for spending part of your day with MyFonts. See you next time. — MyFonts Team MyFonts Inc. 600 Unicorn Park Drive Woburn, MA 01801 USA London, UK | Berlin, DE | Noida, IN | Seoul, KR | Tokyo, JP | Shanghai, CN The promotions featured in this email newsletter are only valid for purchases made online at MyFonts.com. MyFonts and MyFonts.com are trademarks of MyFonts Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. Other technologies, font names, and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. FF Mark®, FF, and Univers® Next are the trademarks of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. Prices are shown in our standard currency (USD), may differ in other currencies, and may also be subject to change due to exchange rate fluctuations. Helvetica® Now is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. ©2024 Monotype. All rights reserved. The text in this email is set in Helvetica® Now. [Unsubscribe]( | [Preferences]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [View in Browser](