October 29, 2014
Welcome to this month’s roundup of type-related info and entertainment. Today, we learn some important typographic pronunciations, figure out how to work with layered web fonts, watch Mark Simonson talk about offset lithography, revisit the 1970 New York City Transit Authority graphics standards manual, see what medieval scribes were doodling in the margins of their […]
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calligraphy monthly font news video
October 25, 2014
Most users are unaware of the sophisticated typesetting possibilities of todayâs personal computers because they have to interact with fonts through a keyboard offering a minimal subset of the character set. It is as if they are looking at their fonts through a keyhole.
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education OpenType
October 22, 2014
Designers ask Adobe for a better user interface for type The introduction of OpenType fonts in 2000 offered designers a rich and sophisticated typographic repertoire. The number of fonts that support these typographic features has grown exponentially over the years. And yet, we â the designers, producers, and users of digital type â have observed with […]
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education
October 15, 2014
In the fifteenth century women had few career opportunities. Few, bar those in the higher social classes were even sent to school, and women were not admitted to universities; Oxford university, for example, didnât permit women to matriculate until 1920. Of medieval women, Sherrill Cohen writes that most were faced with three options: âmarriage, monasticism, […]
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Incunabula popular type history typographic firsts
October 8, 2014
The three members of the Questa family The Questa Project is a type design adventure by Dutch type designers Jos Buivenga and Martin Majoor. Their collaboration began in 2010 using Buivengaâs initial sketches for a squarish Didot-like display typeface as a starting point. It was a perfect base on which to apply Majoorâs type design […]
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make a font new fonts type systems
October 3, 2014
By the 1990s, CD-ROMs and the Internet turned computer screens into the final display substrate. Those were the dark ages of on-screen typography. Designers traded in low-res compromise, bending to the will of fours, the tyranny of the pixel. Endless hours were spent on what my colleagues and I affectionately called âfat-bitting.â It was an […]
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book review web typography