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Arsenal has introduced a new gothic-style font as part of its club branding, designed as a modern take on traditional blackletter lettering. The typeface completes a set of custom fonts the 140-year-old club uses across pre-game, in-game, and post-game materials.
Designer David Rudnick, an Arsenal supporter, worked with the club's brand team including James Kirkup over roughly five years to create a bespoke typeface intended to be unique to Arsenal. Rudnick says he approached the club with the idea of building a visual identity system no other football club could replicate, developed incrementally without a fixed preview of the final design.
The systemd project, which provides the core init system and service manager for most Linux distributions, has released a formal brand identity guide. It specifies the official logo—designed by GNOME's Tobias Bernard in 2019 and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0—along with approved colors, typography, and correct spelling conventions for the project's name.
Vic Mensa, known for creating viral orange tree videos and 'The Vic Mensa Show,' shared insights into how he approaches creative work. He discussed a range of disciplines including cinematography and typeface design as part of his overall creative process.
President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario, presenting the change with props displaying the new name in his administration's designated official font. The typeface, intended to project formality and authority, drew attention for appearing at odds with the gravity the administration sought to convey.
Nothing has unveiled Nothing OS 5.0, a major redesign of its Android skin built on Android 17, featuring a new Geist typeface, translucent UI layering, wallpaper-based adaptive theming, and dedicated apps for the Glyph Interface and Essential Apps Builder. Open Beta testing begins for the Nothing Phone 3 tomorrow, with a stable release planned for mid-October, but the Phone 1, Phone 2, and CMF Phone 1 will not get the update.