By Julie Elman
I admit it. I have a serious apostrophe pet peeve. I hate to see backwards apostrophes used in place of omitted letters.
Example: I’m really into rock ‘n’ roll, especially from the ‘60s.

Those reversed marks get me every time. Might as well just stick the sharp end of an apostrophe in my eye. Whenever […]

Choices, Choices, Choices
[So You Want to Create a Font — Part 1]
The sheer number of fonts out there (MyFonts.com sells over fifty-five thousand) is a testament to the fact that there are nearly an infinitude of creative choices that can be made when designing a font. Of course there are the basics: serif vs. sans […]

Mr Type
Erik Spiekermann is the HighLander of type. He was no doubt present when Gutenberg got his finger stuck in one of his prototype presses; and he’s still here—his enthusiasm for all things type has not waned. Designer of numerous typefaces including the huge FF Meta family, ITC Officina, FF Unit and many others; “information […]

BOOK REVIEW
Made With FontFont: Type for Independent Minds is a celebration of 15 years of the FontFont type library. The low-down (why do we never say “the high-up”?): it’s big, it’s yellow, has 351 pages and it’s divided into an introduction and five sections.

Introduction
A brief history of the founding of type distributor FontShop by Spiekermann […]

By Alec Julien
So you’re a brilliant designer, a master calligrapher, and you’ve learned all about serifs, side-bearings, and kerning. Now you want to create your own font. (What! You haven’t learned all about serifs, side-bearings, and kerning? Well, make sure you read all of the articles on iLT before you embark on font creation! You’ll […]

Fuel Injected Links
I was oh so tempted to post the first in our series of So You Want to Make a Font, but it’s Sunday; and Sunday should be one of those easy days. And what’s more Sunday is my day off (from iLT, at least), so on the odd Sunday, I’ll post some type-related […]

Don’t (dumb) Quote Me
As there was so much interest in Ellen Lupton’s book Thinking With Type, I’d like to share this video of a lecture she gave for Escola Superior de Artes E Design (ESAD).
If you can’t afford the book, then it’s a great educational piece; and, even if you have read the book, you’re […]

Lisboa, Leopards and Links
Typeforyou.org
Oddly enough, this is a type site I only recently discovered. Type For You has a great interview with Ricardo Santos the designer of Lisboa Sans (amongst others), and lots of other type-related news, views and links.

You might also want to take a look at my Flickr Group Typographic Inspiration. I don’t […]