Introducing Take-Backsies and Do Overs
Now you can undo or redo any of your style changes. Just use the normal keyboard shortcuts you’re used to: Cmd/Ctrl+Z for undo and Cmd/Ctrl+Y (or Ctrl+Shift+Z) for redo. It’s a modest improvement, but...
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More Paragraph Control
Typecast is all about experimenting with web type and creating great typographic design. So this week we’ve added indents and exdents as another tool to help you achieve typographic contrast. We’re all...
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Turbo-Charged Containers for Quicker Comparison
They’re going to speed up experimentation with type and help you reach better decisions faster. Duplicate, class and repeat The first of our improvements is the ability to duplicate containers. This...
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Help Us Pick Our 1st OpenTypefaces
Since April we’ve been working to add advanced typography controls like ligatures, terminals, fractions, old style numerals, etc. We’re nearly done. In fact, we’re SO close, we’ve started tagging...
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Fancify Your Typography with Ligatures and More
OpenType features are bonus styles that introduce new shapes and positions to a typeface’s characters. They’re really useful when you want to add a few flourishes and inject a little finesse to your...
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Help Videos & Templates for Getting Started
Lately we’ve been looking at ways to make getting started with Typecast easier, because (frankly) if you’re stuck, we’re sunk! Lots of you gave us really useful feedback, so here’s what we’ve come up...
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Change Type & Elements in Fewer Clicks
Guess what? You no longer have to reopen your typeface or elements menu in Typecast after each selection. Now you can pin these open instead! This means you’ll be able to swap out typefaces much faster...
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Background Color for Your Typography
Okay, so not every project calls for an Apple-esque white background. Which is why we’re so excited to finally be able to offer you a kaleidoscope of background colors. See the full design. Now you can...
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Preview Designs Live
Even though Typecast lives in the browser and is super handy for accessing projects from anywhere, sometimes you need to share you projects with others. So we’ve added ‘Publish’ to make this easy....
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A Better, Simpler Menu
After nearly a year of adding new features to Typecast, we thought our project interface was starting to look cluttered. So we’ve reorganised it to group related items, simplify the menu and make room...
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Proudly Supporting Insites: The Book
Elliot Jay Stocks and Keir Whitaker have just published a tidy collection of interviews with some of the web’s most creative contributors. We all know them by name, but this 256-page tome (available...
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Kick Your Creativity Into High Gear with Our CSS Editor
You folks are insatiable! We release a new feature, you send us a load of lovely ‘thanks’ and ‘that’s awesome’ emails, and then sneakily list three more features you’d like to see next! Of course I...
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Our First Award Nomination!
Earlier this week Typecast was nominated for Best New Web Application/Service in the Irish Web Awards. For nearly a year we’ve been working hard to make Typecast an app that designers enjoy using and...
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Contrast Through Scale
A typographic scale. ©vanseodesign.com by CHRISTOPHER MURPHY Contrast defines hierarchy, creates emphasis, suggests the relationship and relative importance of content, and can control how quickly...
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Public Beta Time!
Man we’ve been looking forward to today! After 12 full months in private beta, we’re opening our doors to all comers. Typecast is officially in public beta starrrrr…tinggg…NOW! We’re fortunate to not...
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Typecast Joins Monotype
We’re delighted to announce that as of today, Monotype is the proud owner of both Typecast and Front (our design agency). It’s fantastic news for our little app – allowing us to grow and improve the...
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Sweet Tweets
Thanks so much for the overwhelming support on Tuesday! As soon as we announced our acquisition by Monotype, your messages of congratulations and virtual high-fives started pouring in. We received over...
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Your Acquisition Questions Answered
© ilovetypography First off, we want to thank all of you for the overwhelming love and support you sent our way on Tuesday. We’re so thankful that the vast majority of our little Typecast community...
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Get Your Type On for Build This Week
Build is a terrific week-long design conference held right here in our hometown of Belfast. Full of design films, eclectic and inspiring fringe events, and a cracker line-up of speakers, it’s a bright...
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Our First Contest Winners
It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of our first-ever typography contest. We’re pleased that so many of you on the beta gave it a go. We received over 40 rebounds, giving the judges...
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