Just got an Honorable Mention on Typographica’s Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 list for my Playfair Display, and it’s even one of the editor’s favourites. Thank you Mr. Coles!

Let me also use this occasion to send a big thank you to Google Webfonts for funding my work on this family. The latin-script fonts are nearing completion, and if all goes according to schedule they should be out within the next month. These are the semi-bold, bold, black uprights and matching italics, including small caps for all weights and styles.

I was asked to select a typeface for Typographica’s list of Favorite Typefaces of 2011. While Gerard Unger’s Capitolium News 2 is not a new design per se, I’m happy to use just about any excuse to make typographers and designers pay notice to, and hopefully use, his exquisite designs.

My presentation entitled Typography for touch-screen devices has been accepted for the 2011 ATypI conference in Reyjkavik. The conference runs from the 14-18 of September, and my presentation will take place Thursday the 15th at 11:00 in ‘Track 1’. I hope to see you there.

I'm pleased to announce that the first font of the Playfair family is now published on the Google Web Fonts service. The font is the regular weight of the display family, and the italic font is soon to follow. You are free to download and use the font on your computer. Using the font as a webfont is very easy – just grab the code from here and start using Playfair on your web pages.

Should you have comments or discover bugs, I would encourage you to comment on this article or contact me directly.

I am attending the TypeTalks2 symposium at the University of Arts in Poznań, on the 18 and 19 of June, 2011. I will be making an exactly 321 seconds long informal presentation entitled 'Lost in pixelation'. It will be about… well, I won't give it away here. Come, and you shall see.