Webtype
August 20, 2010
Better Fonts for Better Websites Another new webfonts service from Font Bureau, Ascender Corp, and Co.
Anchor
August 18, 2010
New Fonts Anchor, a very nice rounded sans from Eric Olson. Available in four weights from Process Type.
Panno Text
August 17, 2010
New Fonts Panno Text, drawn by Pieter van Rosmalen. Available from Bold Monday.
Acorde
August 15, 2010
New Fonts A very nice, no-nonsense, humanist sans from Stefan Willerstorfer. Meet Acorde:
Who invented the alphabet? The Origins of abc
August 7, 2010
We see it every day on signs, billboards, packaging, in books and magazines; in fact, you are looking at it now — the Latin alphabet, the world’s most used abc. But why do the letters look the way they do? Why, how, where, and by whom was the alphabet invented. This is the alphabet’s story.
Reviving Caslon
July 26, 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, […]
Rue Display
July 23, 2010
Free font from TypeTogether Download Rue Display Semibold for free. You’ll need to sign up.
Ready Media
July 22, 2010
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 […]
