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A guide to Web typography

The Basics Typography for the Web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee flipped the switch in 1991. Back in the days of IE 1.0, good web typography was something of an oxymoron. Today things are different. Not only do we have browsers that support images (gasp!), but we have the opportunity to make […]

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National News

TDC2 Winners Announced

I wouldn’t usually post today, but the Type Directors Club (TDC) has just announced this year’s winners of TDC2 2008. Among them is Kris Sowersby’s sans serif, National. I’m sure you’d all like to join in congratulating Kris, and the other winners.Winning entries are divided into five categories, and here is a taster from three of them:

Type System / Superfamily

NationalKris Sowersby:

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Sunday Type: fruity type

Of Pens and Pears First, thanks to everyone who read and commented on Alec’s great Small Caps article. It’s been incredibly popular. Sunday again, and I still haven’t finished packing! Well, let’s forget packing and start with something else that seems pretty popular these days: we’ve had potato type and chocolate type; even cupcake type; […]

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Small Caps

by Alec Julien Small caps are uppercase glyphs drawn at a lowercase scale. A common misconception—unfortunately reinforced by most word processing programs as well as by CSS on the web—is that a small cap is just a regular capital letter scaled uniformly down to a smaller size. In actuality, a proper small cap is a […]

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Sunday Type: pointy type

These last couple of weeks I’ve been dreaming of a life-remote control. It need not be particularly high-tech–I just need a big pause button. I’m moving apartments and packing like there’s no tomorrow. Anyway, I’m taking a break from boxes and gum tape, to talk type.

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Typeface Review: Arnhem

By Kris Sowersby Talent borrows, genius steals In Erik Spiekermann’s list of favourite five typefaces, Arnhem comes in at No.5. He writes “I Love it for newspapers, magazines, etc. Not so keen on the headline weights, they look too Dutch for my use (perhaps too Ungerish, but then Fred is also from Arnhem). But the […]

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Sunday Type: sponge type

The Passionate Printer First up we have a type feast from one of the world’s most popular ‘interiors’ blogs, Design Sponge. Included in the list are some of those we’ve mentioned here before, but there are numerous other examples of ‘living with type’, such as these large reclaimed metal letters. Imagine some of these in […]

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An interview with Jean François Porchez

You’ll see his typefaces on the Paris MĂ©tro, gracing the pages of France’s premier newspaper, Le Monde, in magazines and books; even BeyoncĂ© uses them. He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot for excellence in type design, was president of ATypI, designed one of the best modern-day type revivals, and…. Well, there’s so much more […]

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Sunday Type: Frodo Type

Birthday Cupcakes This week iLT is six months old. She’s doing quite well thanks to all of you: one million page views, almost 3,000 comments, and about 70 posts–though it feels like more. So if you have a spare minute, then pop a party popper, throw a streamer, crack open a bottle of Champagne, light […]

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FontBook

RESENHA DO LIVRO Recentemente recebi atravĂ©s do correio algo grande, amarelo e pesando 3 kg. NĂŁo, nĂŁo Ă© uma banana geneticamente modificada, mas o FontBook do FontShop, a enciclopĂ©dia do tipo. Este livro realmente deveria vir com uma advertĂŞncia de saĂşde: o meu carteiro quase teve uma hĂ©rnia entregando-o e muito perto de torcer seu […]

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