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Designers are lucky — we’ve got more template resources available to us than ever before. We’ve gotHTML5 Boilerplateto get our projects off the ground faster than ever before, frameworks like960.gsso that we can design with a grid without wasting time on the calculations, and the list goes on. Type-a-fileis another of these foundational templates that can save a whole bunch of time: it takes care of the tedious work of giving basic styling to typographical elements....

Can’t breathe without Helvetica? We know the feeling. If typography gets you out of bed in the morning, Designer and Creative TechnologistDong Yoon Parkhas created an app for you. The TypeClock app features four different types of design, the ability to assign characters displayed, change type size and animation speed and grid mode. Design Options include Black on White, White on Black, Black on Kraft Paper, Black on Matte Paper, Display Type Name and Display Grid....

Typekit todayadded more Adobe fontsto its library and expanded support for Chaparral Pro with new optical styles. The new typefaces are Utopia, Poetica, OCR-A, and OCR-B. The OCR fonts are your typical machine-readable fonts without much going for them in the way of aesthetics, butUtopiais worth checking out — it’s a fantastic traditional serif. The image below features Utopia in the first three lines and Poetica in the bottom line....

Typekit, the popular web font provider, this week announced several additions to their already respectable library of typefaces. They announced the addition of two new fonts fromJust Another Foundryand another two fonts fromInsigne Designyesterday. The new fonts areHerb,Peacock,EigerdalsandAviano Future. Insigne also introduced vertical metrics updates and rendering improvements for its popular offerings Le Havre and Sommet Slab. As always, updates to fonts won’t be seen on your site until you republish your kit....

Typekithas launched a new status page to keep its customers up-to-date on downtime and released new and updated Mark Simonson fonts, including a huge update to the incredibly popular Proxima Nova font. Thestatus page, which currently records a level of uptime that many online service providers would be jealous of, should help stem the frequent accusations I see people making in Typekit’s direction when there’s some sort of server issue with their site....