An Early Typecast Prototype
The idea for Typecast has been kicking around since mid-2010 when we realised that there was a gap forming between the gloriously messy design exploration stage, and the serious task of hunkering down...
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Status update: progress and roadmap
We’ve been working through the summer to take on board all your feedback and make Typecast a better product. You’ve told us that it has the potential to be an awesome, useful tool and we’re doing...
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Striving for Craftsmanship in Web Design
This summer, we were asked two questions that deserve a public response: why are you creating Typecast and why is it useful? We’d like to answer these questions by sharing our perspective on the...
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Our first screencast: thanks for tuning in!
Thanks to everyone who joined our live screencast yesterday! (Miss it? Fear not, we’re having another one) It was great to finally show what we’ve been working on for the past few months. We were...
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Designing with web fonts
Your favourite typefaces from the best font services We believe good fonts are worth paying for. But we also think it should be easy to experiment with typefaces you haven’t worked with before....
View ArticleSteve Matteson on Choosing Type
If you don’t know Steve Matteson by name, we bet you know his work. If you’ve ever used Windows Vista, an Android phone or the original Xbox and Xbox 360, you will have seen his typographic creations...
View ArticleVideo of Typecast Live Demo
Thanks to everyone who tuned into our second screencast. We found it hard to nail a time that would suit everybody (sleep is for the weak, people), so we had to create a special time capture device...
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A Holiday Update from Typecast
We know some of you have been too. So it’s with a twinge of holiday blues that we announce a postponement. But only a twinge, because there’s good news too. Like Santa’s elves, our designers and...
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Introducing Ems, More Style Control & the Full Typekit Library
These latest changes should make Typecast even more useful and enjoyable to work with by providing: better design control; more convenience; and greater stability. So without further ado, here’s what’s...
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4 Simple Steps to Vertical Rhythm
Firstly, using HTML and CSS to code means a lot of jumping back and forth and refreshing to visually confirm things. And even when we evade coding and work in design packages, it requires maths – not...
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New Slides and a Facelift
Your feedback from within the app and on Twitter tells us there’s room for improvement. So most of this week’s changes focus on just that – making stuff clearer and less cumbersome or fussy. Getting...
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Versioning & More Colours For You
The first is a new feature that loads of you have requested. The second is an upgrade we thought you’d find extremely useful and great fun to use. Revision history Typecast has always saved your work...
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Project Showcase: Simple as Milk
Simple as Milk are a branding and web design team based in Eastbourne, UK, with a passion for helping start ups get off the ground through great design. If you ever visited Assistly, colorati.com or...
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OpenType and Better Containers Are in Sight
Some are improvements, and some are brand new goodies to make it even nicer and easier to design with web fonts. Here’s some of what we’ll be working to bring you during April. Topshelf type features...
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Design with Inheritance
In brief, our new inheritance feature lets you define the body before you specify your other styles. To set the body, just click ‘body’ on the tool box and define its properties. Once that’s done,...
View ArticleIntroducing 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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