Month: July 2010
Part 1: The snare of authenticity How much should a revival of a typeface look like the original? Well, just as with performing an old song—an analogy Matthew Carter has made—there is something you have to like in the original in order want to revive it. And you can’t depart from the original too much, […] Free font from TypeTogether Download Rue Display Semibold for free. You’ll need to sign up. InDesign Templates Just after the war (I don’t recall when exactly, but perhaps it was in the early days of QuarkXPress), I do recall trying to find good templates for magazines and newspapers. I found none — at least I found none that didn’t resemble something put together by the office Janitor who did the […] Try webfonts for free Great, simple idea: Try out FontFont webfonts with FontFonter: for devotees of typography The good news is that Elliot Jay Stocks has published 8 Faces, a print title for typography enthusiasts. The other good news is that its limited run of 1,000 copies sold out in just a few hours. That leads us to the bad news: you won’t be able to get a […] Font Editing on the go Has anyone used 2ttf’s new font editor for the iPad? iFontMaker [iTunes]: Update: Detailed review of iFontMaker by @honeydesign. Thanks to @Luca_Paulina. In the House These Eames House Blocks look great. Another hit from House Industries: Child not included (I guess). Veer gets a facelift Like the redesign of Veer. Especially the fonts section, of course:Reviving Caslon
Rue Display
Ready Media
FontFont it!
8 Faces
iFontMaker for iPad
Eames House Blocks
New Veer