Multi-lingual fonts. I’m dying for a couple of good cross-writing sans serifs. I’m working on a lot of cyrillic texts these days, and I can’t find a whole lot of decent cyrillic sans serifs, that work well with my latin sans serifs.

FontLab Robotic - to reduce the labour costs of type designers:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060307220709.htm

P.S.
It will be released when it is ready :)

New trend: Pirate Type.
New Release: ITC Avant Garde Gothic Super Pro Oblique II

photo fonts

Screen reading for most books, letterpress for the rest.

Yeah, photo fonts... they’re going to be one-offs (not robust systems) for quick and dirty concepts, posters, sites, etc. Because they’ll be one-offs they’ll also be cheaper.

“what would you WANT to be the next big thing in typography?”

Me!

Joking. I would like to see typography & typographer’s taken much more seriously, like doctors for example. And the decay of arbitrary typesetting rules proposed in places like The Chicago Manual of Style.

—K

Photo Fonts:
’Give a round of applause to the winner of the logo contest.’

Whos’ the winner?

Until there is an easy way to make photofonts read as actual text for search engines, they’ll never become the norm for web design.

>FontLab Robotic

there is Robofab Fontlab... it rocks...magic since we’ve been waiting for a fraction maker for 20 years... and it’s here, python baby!

Blackletter is making a comeback.

Dunno about what will be the next big thing...

However, I have some strong feelings about what should be the last big thing. And principal amongst these is the total disregard / lack of acknowledgement for the skills of the typographer.

This comes from two desperate experiences:

i) When asked what I do for a living and answering ’I’m a Typographer’, being confronted with the reply ’What does that mean’ or worse, ’so you do DTP’... jeez...

ii) Overhearing two 16 year-old chav secretaries debating whether Times New Roman or Verdana was the ’better looking’ font.

If I’d had a length of rope, I’d have hanged them. Or, if they were too quick for me, I’d have hanged myself... :-)

Flairs are the next big thing, its over due. I can see The Sans (flair)

3D holigraphic type… able to be recognized at 360°…

i can’t imagine photofonts being anything but a novelty at best. if they’re based on pixels, i assume they’ll be relegated to a certain size and well, that’s pretty pointless.

personally, to answer my own question, i’d like to see typefaces, particularly ones for text, becoming more random in that each letter might have a handful of small variations, and when you use it it’ll randomize it and make the text feel more alive, like it did with the older manual printing techniques. it used to be more imperfect, but that’s also what made it much more alive. i know the technology is getting there with randomization of letters, but as far as i know there aren’t any typefaces (or programs) that have this.. it may not be the perfect solution to making the printed letter feel more living, but at least it’d be a step towards the right direction.

Letterror has produced a few fonts with shifting anchor points. Maybe not exactly what claes meant, but close I think. I’m almost positive I read an article last year regarding another typeface that used shifting points to give letters a more unique feel.

Also the OT version of Ed Interlock has multiple characters included for a greater selection it also includes almost 1,400 ligatures and will auto-jumble the selection on the fly.

i’d like to see typefaces, particularly ones for text, becoming more random...there aren’t any typefaces (or programs) that have this.

Random Feature

true, this kind of thing is more desireable in script fonts moreso than text fonts. However, when I was putting together Franklin Caslon, I put together a quick font that although not really random simulated this kind of effect. (althought i’m sure i could make it more random with a bit more work). Here’s a screen grab just for fun with some text set out of the box with my beta font. You can see that the supersmudged letters happen too regularly to make this really convincing.

“I would like to see typography & typographer’s taken much more