![]() Neue Haas Grotesk through Adobe Fonts replaces Akzidenz Grotesk for print, video and all Adobe software uses starting this year. And don’t forget to pre-order your copy of Codex! 166 pages of type heaven.Using fonts and typography to communicate the ASU brand Part of the great Folk Typography Flickr pool, a selection of the weird, but sometimes wonderful. I guess there are many lessons in this: from pay a professional to don’t sign-write your van while drunk. Is There a New Leading Man in Hollywood? - Paul Shawĭesign Education, Part II: Gerry LeonidasĪnd what of art direction? - Richard ZiadeĪnd, finally, I think this little company needs to work on their branding/typography/lettering/spelling: The type maker’s view of web fonts: An interview with Tim Ahrens The library of the future - Marie McPartlin The State of Webfont Quality - Ross Mills More information about the font in Aegir’s 2008 article. Typonine Glagolitic, free to download from Typonine, in exchange for your email address. Igor Labudovic’s charming three-weight stencil type, Brilliant: I have no idea if this will be available as a webfont when H&FJ launches its service, but I reckon it would prove very popular. Particularly like the idea of the additional three weights drawn specifically for texts.Ī new and very accomplished humanist sans serif from H&FJ. One of the latest additions to my own type library is Christian Schwartz’s Neue Haas Grotesk: How could you not download a free font called Fatboy.Ī new type specimen book from Jean-Baptiste Levée. You can also download Fatboy (a beta version of a wood type revival) for free. The Wood Type Kickstarter project has almost met its funding goal: Oliver Reichenstein asks ‘ Business Class: Freemium for News?’ I’m wondering if there is a more appropriate analogy - something more analogous - but the concept is inspired. Animatable:Ī first look at Animatable from Andy Clarke on Vimeo. Moving, animated, or so-called kinetic typography. Yes, I know, it’s not about typography, but imagine the possibilities. ![]() Some beauties in these excerpts from Sanborn fire-insurance maps (wasn’t aware such things existed). Wish dribble had twitter-like lists or groups, so that I could share such a list with others. Among them, French type design legend, Jean François Porchez: Great to see type designers embracing dribble. Last chance to sign up for the Legacy of Letters tour. One in California Wine Country (12–17 June 2011) the other held at the Bauhaus campus in Weimar! (30 July –4 August 2011). Long overdue, but looking great, and so much easier to navigate: the new FontFont site.Ī Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo. Great to see Nadine Chahine’s custom type (Gebran2005) in the redesign of An-Nahar, Lebanon’s leading daily newspaper (left: before right: after): Hard to beat fat Egyptian numerals when they’re displayed at these sizes: Nice use of Font Bureau’s Giza and Griffith Gothic in Pentagram’s work for the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. I will announce the winner on Monday via twitter.įixText, a very clever jQuery plugin for resizing web type on the fly: Just tell us why you want or need the poster and we’ll select a lucky winner. And I almost forgot to mention that I’ve convinced atipo to give one away to an ILT reader. I already have too many pictures and posters, but couldn’t resist buying this one (the one on the right):Īvailable from atipo in Spain. Yes, it has been a while, but here is the week - perhaps the month - in type. Now that the first issue of Codex magazine is on its way to the printer, I can take a breather (a few days until work resumes on issue #2), and list here some of the type-related things that have been catching my eye. ![]() I’d also like to thank MailChimp for their generous support. Along with Carolyn Wood and Working Format we think we’ve created something very special indeed. Creating a 164-page magazine from scratch is an enormous project and, looking back, I’m happy that I was naïve enough to think it could be done. The last five months have been pretty intense.
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