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August 5, 2019
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Arial vs Helvetica
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2024
- 24.07 : Love Notes
- 23.05 : Typography Matters
- 16.04 : The Music of Type Design
- 07.12 : ILT’s Favorite Fonts of 2023
- 17.09 : The New Johnson & Johnson Logo
- 24.08 : Quality Web Fonts
- 28.06 : The L in ILT
- 04.05 : 50% off Fonts
- 05.04 : Fonts for Luxury Brands
- 23.03 : Hot New Fonts: spring 2023
- 14.03 : ILT’s Favorite Fonts of 2022
- 10.03 : Power up your design game!
- 04.03 : Hot New Fonts: Rotulo
- 28.02 : Expressive script fonts
- 24.02 : Three Free Fonts
- 22.02 : Fonts for Editorial Design
- 20.02 : Stellar Serifs: Sisteron
- 29.11 : 10 Must-have Typefaces for 2023
- 09.11 : Pimp My Type!
- 19.10 : Making friends with SideNote
- 04.10 : Comic Code — it’s no joke!
- 21.09 : Featured Fonts
- 24.08 : Expert Lists: Fonts for Books
- 20.07 : Featured Fonts
- 28.06 : 21 New Foundries Join ILT
- 28.06 : A Year in Type
- 31.05 : The Month in Type: May 2022
- 27.04 : The Month in Type: Fun type
- 20.04 : Fonts to Fall in Love With
- 13.04 : Fantastic New Fonts
- 08.04 : Bodoni Egyptian Mono
- 07.04 : Schotis Display font family
- 06.04 : Layfort font family
- 17.03 : Font Fashion Week
- 09.03 : Featured Fonts: March 2022
- 08.03 : Celebrating women-led foundries
- 23.02 : The Month in Type: Feb 2020
- 16.02 : Featured Fonts: Feb 2022
- 09.02 : Hot new fonts
- 26.01 : The Month in Type: January 2022
- 19.01 : My Favorite Fonts of 2021
- 28.12 : The Year in Type
- 17.12 : Fonts in Focus: Palast
- 30.11 : The Month in Type: Nov. 2021
- 26.11 : Why Bold not Black Friday?
- 24.11 : Welcome to the family!
- 08.08 : An Interview with Fontfabric
- 28.07 : Fonts in the Twilight Zone
- 27.07 : An Interview with Ulrike Rausch
- 21.07 : On Type Design & Volcanoes
- 15.07 : Ask ILT: Fashion Fonts
- 31.05 : Talking about Type
- 03.04 : Fonts in Focus: Louche
- 08.03 : Women of Letters
- 12.01 : My Favorite Typefaces of 2020
- 12.12 : Dragons & Unicorns
- 08.11 : Emoji b4 emoji
- 28.09 : Who invented the newspaper?
- 03.09 : Prints & Propaganda
- 20.08 : Make the Letter Bigger
- 31.07 : Inventing Posters
- 11.07 : Black Print
- 18.06 : The Writing Mistress
- 06.06 : Death of a Typeface
- 25.05 : Fun with Fonts
- 03.05 : Granjon’s Beautiful Bastard
- 19.03 : Printed Pandemic: Plague Books
- 15.02 : Fonts in Focus: two
- 27.01 : Point, don’t point
- 13.01 : The Oldest Book in America
- 02.12 : The Geometer’s Compass
- 28.10 : Fonts in Focus: Decimal & Chill
- 11.10 : The Secret Life of Books
- 13.09 : Meditations on Snowflakes
- 21.08 : Pomp, Type & Circumstance
- 04.07 : Renaissance memes
- 16.06 : The Prince & the fleur-de‑lys
- 10.06 : The Pope’s Romance
- 17.04 : In the Shadow of Notre Dame
- 14.03 : The First Printed Math Books
- 28.02 : Renaissance Metal
- 20.11 : Magic Printed
- 24.08 : Who Invented the Index?
- 06.07 : The Art of Printing War
- 22.05 : Making Teddy
- 20.03 : Astronomical Typography
- 07.02 : Making Antarctican
- 19.12 : Designing Wind
- 27.10 : Botticelli & the Typographers
- 19.10 : Designing Hebrew Type
- 24.07 : Endangered Alphabets
- 14.07 : Inkwell: welcome to our universe
- 07.06 : Ricardo: A Tale of Two Worlds
- 31.05 : The First Cookbook
- 09.05 : On the Nature of Things
- 03.04 : The Evolution of Chromatic Type
- 17.03 : TypeParis
- 30.01 : Thesaurus
- 02.09 : The Prints and the Pauper
- 14.07 : Making Fonts: Proza Libre
- 14.06 : Making Grifo
- 18.04 : The First Roman Fonts
- 17.03 : New Lands in Arabic Type
- 14.02 : The First Title-Pages
- 01.02 : Universal Grotesk
- 13.01 : Designing Vinter
- 31.12 : This Month in Typography
- 20.11 : Pure Gold
- 10.11 : The First Illustrated Books
- 21.09 : This Month in Typography
- 07.09 : Printing the Stars
- 25.08 : Font Marathon
- 07.08 : This Month in Typography
- 29.06 : ILT 2015
- 27.06 : The Last Word on Helvetica?
- 17.06 : The Pattern Project
- 12.06 : Making Fonts: Essonnes
- 01.06 : This Month in Typography
- 22.05 : Alphabets of Wood
- 14.05 : Type Design Week
- 05.05 : Making Fonts: SINDELAR
- 24.04 : This Month in Typography
- 06.04 : Print Imperfect: from N to Z
- 22.03 : The First Printers’ Mark
- 08.03 : This Month in Typography
- 22.02 : Climbing Everest
- 04.02 : This Month in Typography
- 27.01 : Murder in Italic
- 13.01 : Making Fonts: GT Sectra
- 05.01 : This Month in Typography
- 02.12 : This Month in Typography
- 25.11 : Notes on the first Italic
- 18.11 : Letters in Wonderhand
- 13.11 : New Fonts 1
- 29.10 : This Month In Typography
- 22.10 : Better UI for Better Typography
- 15.10 : The First Female Typographer
- 08.10 : The Questa Project
- 03.10 : Type on Screen
- 26.09 : This Month in Typography
- 08.08 : Learning to Love letters!
- 27.06 : This Week in Fonts
- 19.04 : Cloths of heaven
- 14.04 : An idea of a typeface
- 03.04 : The Sign Painter
- 28.02 : Clampersand
- 21.02 : The First Printed Page Numbers
- 14.02 : Making Signo
- 28.01 : Marvelous Medieval Books
- 24.01 : The first book printed in Italy
- 10.12 : Last-minute gift ideas
- 09.12 : It’s big, it’s 1001 pt
- 19.11 : Drawing Line
- 11.11 : One Hel(vetica) of a Story
- 01.11 : Proza’s story
- 23.09 : Lava — Voice of a Magazine
- 13.09 : Interview: Xavier Dupré
- 04.07 : This Week in Fonts
- 06.06 : A Typographic Carousel
- 27.04 : Shameless
- 25.04 : Making waves with Magasin
- 24.02 : Crafting Type
- 13.02 : Lettering versus Calligraphy
- 03.01 : Codex Editorial Board
- 09.12 : TDC type-design competition 2012
- 01.11 : The Voice of all the Gods
- 16.10 : Hipster Hummingbirds
- 24.09 : The Complete Engraver
- 05.08 : Space: The Initial Frontier
- 29.07 : The Week in Type
- 17.07 : An Interview with Stéphane Elbaz
- 21.05 : Designing for the Future Book
- 15.05 : Novel Constructions
- 10.05 : Offscreen
- 09.05 : A Pocket Cathedral
- 02.05 : Type Matters
- 28.04 : Make the margins bigger
- 19.04 : The design of a signage typeface
- 11.04 : Designing type systems
- 06.04 : Type Camp India
- 09.03 : Letters & Stone
- 06.03 : We love your streets
- 26.02 : Garçon Grotesque
- 21.02 : FF Ernestine
- 11.02 : Costco Typography
- 16.01 : タイプデザイナー 岡野邦彦 Quintet書体インタビュー
- 13.01 : An interview with Kunihiko Okano
- 14.12 : An Interview with Verena Gerlach
- 18.11 : Heaven Devoid of Stars
- 06.10 : Steve Jobs
- 05.10 : The making of FF Tundra
- 25.09 : ATypI 2011 Reykjavík
- 18.09 : Gay type
- 30.08 : Peace
- 23.08 : Linotype the film — final push
- 30.07 : All sorts of type
- 11.06 : Codex
- 26.05 : TYPO-Berlin
- 12.05 : All kinds of type
- 01.04 : Engaging contextuality
- 11.03 : Through Thick and Thin
- 28.02 : iType
- 28.01 : MOMA on the money
- 08.01 : Sayonara 2010
- 11.12 : Codex type
- 07.12 : Helvetica vs. Arial app
- 03.12 : Jean-Luc (Godard)
- 01.12 : Capucine
- 30.11 : Reverting to Type
- 27.11 : Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop
- 24.11 : HTML5 Books?
- 24.11 : Typographic Heavy Metal
- 24.11 : Piel Script
- 20.11 : Moveable Type
- 19.11 : Kim Rugg
- 18.11 : Kickstart Linotype
- 12.11 : It’s what you see
- 10.11 : The original typomaniac
- 07.11 : Letterpressed wings
- 05.11 : An interview with Craig Mod
- 05.11 : Linotype the movie
- 05.11 : Paula Scher
- 02.11 : Reviving Caslon
- 27.10 : Gastrotypographicalassemblage
- 27.10 : Jonathan Barnbrook
- 25.10 : TELEPHONEME
- 20.10 : Paper typography
- 19.10 : Amman
- 10.10 : The making of Acorde
- 12.09 : Fontula
- 08.09 : Geotica
- 31.08 : Lesson Plan
- 20.08 : Webtype
- 18.08 : Anchor
- 17.08 : Panno Text
- 16.08 : Fan Script
- 15.08 : Acorde
- 29.07 : Jessica Hische
- 26.07 : Reviving Caslon
- 23.07 : Rue Display
- 22.07 : Ready Media
- 21.07 : Two minutes with Nadine Chahine
- 21.07 : FontFont it!
- 18.07 : 8 Faces
- 13.07 : iFontMaker for iPad
- 13.07 : Eames House Blocks
- 13.07 : New Veer
- 11.07 : Typarchive
- 10.07 : Typeface Design
- 08.07 : WebINK
- 04.07 : iPad vs Kindle
- 04.07 : Jules Verne
- 01.07 : New FontFont webfonts
- 01.07 : Two minutes with Akira Kobayashi
- 01.07 : Biome — the making of a typeface
- 30.06 : Folder Type
- 21.06 : Font Hinting
- 18.06 : Two Minutes with Alice Savoie
- 16.06 : World Cup part 2
- 15.06 : World Cup
- 04.06 : HTML5
- 25.05 : Founders Grotesk
- 20.05 : Google Font Directory
- 14.05 : David Carson
- 12.05 : Robin Nicholas
- 08.05 : The Art of American Book Covers
- 07.05 : Founders Grotesk
- 06.05 : Why did I start a type foundry?
- 04.05 : More House
- 04.05 : More Web Fonts
- 04.05 : Walking with Shaw
- 03.05 : The Art of Hermann Zapf
- 03.05 : Web Fonts
- 29.04 : Creating Grand Gargantua
- 28.04 : Molten glass
- 27.04 : Hand-painted sign
- 17.04 : The Vignelli Twelve
- 08.04 : What the iPad lacks
- 04.04 : José Mendoza y Almeida
- 31.03 : Deck Playing Cards
- 31.03 : Blazing
- 30.03 : Type Matters
- 29.03 : Gerrit Noordzij on drawing
- 23.03 : Creative Review redesign
- 23.03 : Stencil lettering
- 21.03 : The type we want
- 18.03 : iPhone, iFont
- 14.03 : Process Type Foundry
- 13.03 : Stanley Morison
- 11.03 : Ditoria
- 10.03 : Colosseo
- 09.03 : The book & the iPad
- 08.03 : Alex Trochut
- 08.03 : Font Haus
- 07.03 : Cieszyn Print Library
- 07.03 : Incunabula
- 07.03 : Gráfica Fidalga: Printing Days
- 18.02 : Designing Armitage
- 02.02 : Art and Text
- 21.01 : My favorite fonts of 2009
- 05.01 : Twenty-ten type
- 15.12 : The Making of Vesper
- 14.12 : Our own alphabet
- 04.12 : Wishing on a typeface
- 20.11 : The Right Type of Education
- 25.10 : Sex, lies, & type
- 06.10 : Type Camp
- 23.09 : Karbon type
- 17.09 : Tungsten type
- 29.08 : Encyclopædic type
- 17.08 : Type Radio
- 13.08 : The making of FF Duper
- 07.08 : The Font-as-Service
- 20.07 : Web fonts — where are we?
- 18.07 : iQ font
- 06.07 : Mojo Type
- 22.06 : KLIM Type
- 12.06 : An interview with Alice Savoie
- 03.06 : Genuine imitations
- 11.05 : Show some restraint
- 30.04 : The second coming
- 21.04 : The Typographic Desk Reference
- 15.04 : We love typography
- 05.04 : Yes, we kern
- 23.03 : The first one’s the hardest
- 17.03 : Malabar type family released
- 11.03 : Watchmen watchtype
- 28.02 : Read between the leading
- 20.02 : TDC2 2009 results
- 15.02 : iFont, iPhone
- 08.02 : Chelsea, darling
- 31.01 : Projected type
- 24.01 : On diacritics
- 20.01 : Greener type
- 14.01 : Inconspicuous vertical metrics
- 05.01 : To a typetastic new year
- 30.12 : Reminga bold italic
- 25.12 : My favourite typefaces of 2008
- 18.12 : the week in type — Zócalo
- 14.12 : The Type Directors Club
- 11.12 : An interview with Seb Lester
- 07.12 : Free fonts from FontFont
- 04.12 : 30 inspiring type treatments
- 28.11 : the week in Type: good type
- 22.11 : Printing — how it used to be
- 20.11 : Footnotes *†‡§
- 17.11 : The week in type: die neue
- 13.11 : More from the mighty Seb Lester
- 11.11 : The week in type: casanova
- 05.11 : Vote
- 30.10 : I Love Type Links 1
- 29.10 : Sunday Type: tomate type
- 26.10 : An Interview with Ludwig Übele
- 22.10 : Sunday Type: mightier type
- 15.10 : Sunday Type: inspiring type
- 07.10 : Sunday type: kokoro type
- 03.10 : BraveFont
- 03.10 : Diacritical Challenge
- 30.09 : Obama Village
- 29.09 : Sunday Type: lettercult type
- 27.09 : Friday Flickr Found Type
- 21.09 : Sunday Type: czech type
- 18.09 : Museo Sans released
- 12.09 : Reading Class of 2008
- 09.09 : Sunday Type: tsang type
- 04.09 : FF Meta Serif Microsite
- 01.09 : Sunday Type: circumflex type
- 26.08 : Sunday Type: dilbert type
- 22.08 : Type and Media Masters
- 18.08 : Sunday Type: ornament type
- 14.08 : An Interview with Nikola Djurek
- 11.08 : Sunday Type: favourite type
- 04.08 : Sunday Type: birthday type
- 27.07 : Sunday Type: book type
- 24.07 : Letterpress From Scratch
- 21.07 : Sunday type: napkin type
- 15.07 : Sunday Type: incubator type
- 06.07 : Sunday Type: stern type
- 02.07 : Type Camp 2008
- 29.06 : Sunday Type: garbage type
- 25.06 : Anivers — birth of a typeface
- 23.06 : Sunday Type: vintage type
- 20.06 : A Brief History of Type—Part 5
- 16.06 : Sunday Type: paragraph type
- 09.06 : Sunday Type: typesetting type
- 04.06 : Typeface Review: FF Balance
- 02.06 : Sunday Type: Ale Paul type
- 30.05 : A Brief History of Type
- 26.05 : Sunday Type
- 21.05 : Face to Face
- 19.05 : Sunday Type: community type
- 16.05 : eXtreme Type Terminology
- 12.05 : Sunday type: crossword type
- 05.05 : Sunday Type: mirror type
- 01.05 : An Interview With Nadine Chahine
- 27.04 : Sunday Type: smoking type
- 25.04 : eXtreme Type Terminology
- 21.04 : Sunday Type: matrix type
- 16.04 : An Interview With Jos Buivenga
- 13.04 : Sunday type: ampersand type
- 11.04 : eXtreme Type Terminology
- 06.04 : Sunday type: dotsquared type
- 04.04 : On Choosing Type
- 01.04 : Arise Sir Erik Spiekermann
- 30.03 : Sunday Type: farnham type
- 27.03 : eXtreme Type Terminology
- 23.03 : Sunday Type: bright type
- 21.03 : eXtreme Type Terminology
- 17.03 : Sunday Type: monday type
- 09.03 : Sunday Type: illegible type
- 07.03 : The Best Type of 2007
- 02.03 : Sunday Type: the sound of type
- 28.02 : A guide to Web typography
- 26.02 : National News
- 24.02 : Sunday Type: fruity type
- 20.02 : Small Caps
- 17.02 : Sunday Type: pointy type
- 14.02 : Typeface Review: Arnhem
- 10.02 : Sunday Type: sponge type
- 03.02 : Sunday Type: Frodo Type
- 03.02 : FontBook
- 03.02 : Porque Bembo Cansa
- 03.02 : TIPOLOGIA
- 01.02 : Archer the Elegant Slab Serif
- 29.01 : セリフを撃ったのは誰?
- 27.01 : Sunday Type: Mel Gibson Type
- 24.01 : FontBook
- 22.01 : Why Bembo Sucks
- 20.01 : Sunday Type: Spaced-out Type
- 15.01 : Terminologia de Tipos: Humanista
- 13.01 : Sunday Type: Potato Type
- 12.01 : Type Snippets
- 10.01 : An Interview With Ellen Lupton
- 09.01 : 打造你自己的字体(III)实例研究:Joules
- 06.01 : Sunday Type: Iso Type
- 30.12 : Sunday Type: Feel Type
- 28.12 : Type faces
- 23.12 : Sunday type: Evan’s Type
- 19.12 : An Interview With Kris Sowersby
- 15.12 : Sunday Type: x-rated type!
- 13.12 : Counterpunch
- 09.12 : Sunday Type: Present Type
- 08.12 : Logo, Font, and Lettering Bible
- 02.12 : Sunday Type: Freudian Type
- 29.11 : Font Creation Case Study: Joules
- 26.11 : Sunday Type: Crap Type
- 21.11 : History of typography: Old Style
- 18.11 : Sunday Type
- 14.11 : At last! FF Meta Serif
- 13.11 : Being Kind to Widows and Orphans
- 10.11 : Sunday type: shush, I’m kerning!
- 08.11 : Subscripts: Smashing Free Fonts
- 06.11 : History of typography: Humanist
- 04.11 : Sunday Type: FREE FONTS
- 28.10 : Sunday type: Spiekermann
- 26.10 : Made With FontFont
- 21.10 : Sunday Type
- 19.10 : Ellen Lupton The Movie
- 17.10 : Kinescope Font Winner
- 13.10 : Kinescope
- 13.10 : Thinking With Type Prizes
- 09.10 : Thinking With Type
- 06.10 : Arial versus Helvetica
- 05.10 : Typography Videos
- 02.10 : Typoholism. An Addict’s Tale
- 24.09 : I Love Typography is Moving
- 23.09 : Baskerville, John
- 15.09 : ILT Investigates: type torture
- 13.09 : fresh Faces, fine Fonts: Montag
- 09.09 : Decline and fall of the ligature
- 09.09 : Quien mató al serif?
- 02.09 : The Return of the Serif
- 30.08 : Typography Kills!
- 26.08 : Who shot the serif?
- 19.08 : Identify That Font
- 14.08 : Type You Like Mobile
- 10.08 : Smashing typography
- 09.08 : Helmut Schmid at ddd Osaka
- 07.08 : Helmut Schmid
- 07.08 : Welcome to I Love Typography
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