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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
September 26, 2014
Welcome to a new monthly roundup of type-related info and entertainment. (This will be in addition to Sean Mitchell’s excellent This Week in Fonts feature.) This month, we have movies (about sign painters, and Eric and John Gill), books (about Porchez, Baskerville, Spiekermann, and typewriter art, as well as books by Steven Heller and Gail […]
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calligraphy new fonts video
August 8, 2014
I love letters. All kinds and types of letters: small, large, drawn, sketched, painted, rough, smooth, serif, sans serif, script, roman, italic, oblique, digitized, old and new, uppercase, lowercase, all materials and media, three dimensional⌠Yes, I love letters, except for those that are poorly or incorrectly proportioned. For those poor ugly letters, I feel […]
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calligraphy lorrie frear make a font type design
July 12, 2014
Three years ago MetaDesign Berlin asked us to design a custom Serif and Sans typeface for the German federal government. They had been assigned to redevelop the governmentâs corporate design with the typefaces as part of the update. The project was to cover all communication issued by the government and their ministries, online or offline, […]
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June 27, 2014
An Erik Spiekermann exclusive from Hamilton Wood Type, a sturdy slab by Rene Bieder, a high-class display from Avondale Type Co, a brush script by Mika Melvas, a modest slab serif from Type Me Fonts, a monospaced family by Matthew Butterick, a contemporary script from Petra DoÄekalovĂĄ, and a super family by Playtype.
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new fonts
April 19, 2014
Cloths of Heaven is Seb Lesterâs interpretation of ‘Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’, a poem by the renowned Irish poet W. B. Yeats. It is a continuation of his exploration of the theme of beauty in the context of letterform design. He has produced a limited edition screen print and also collaborated with […]
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calligraphy lettering posters Seb Lester
April 14, 2014
Aware that there is no such thing as total neutrality, Neutral typeface explores how the absence of stylistic associations can help the reader to engage with the content of a text.
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April 3, 2014
A short film on sign painter, Mike Langley:
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signage video