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Typographic Abbreviations Series #1: OCR
This entry is the first in a series (at least that’s the plan) of short articles explaining exactly what all those mysterious abbreviations you come across in your typographic lives actually mean. The...
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Type From The Crypt
Disclaimer: While the timing of this article seems fittingly close to Halloween, I genuinely just like horror-related stuff; I would just as soon have posted it on Christmas or Mother’s Day. With that...
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Steven Hill’s amazing title screen pages
Anyone interested in lettering will probably enjoy shillPages—an amazing collection of movie title screen shots. Here are just a few samples from his gigantic collection: I also like to use WhatTheFont...
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Re: Typographic Overload; or, “Do we really need more fonts?”
I just read a piece in the current issue of Computer Arts magazine by Jason Arber of pixelsurgeon.com about what he calls “typographic overload”. He has a theory that “there exists an international...
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Robundo Publishing Visit
Adam Twardoch and I had the honor last week of meeting with a group of type-related people in Tokyo. The meeting was hosted at the office of Robundo Publishing [English translation], a venerable...
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Typographic Abbreviations Series #2: VAG
This entry is the second in a series of short articles explaining exactly what all those mysterious abbreviations you come across in your typographic lives actually mean. In this installation, the...
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Top 5 weirdest dingbat fonts
I was looking through a listing recently of picture fonts on MyFonts, and realized that there are some pretty weird ones there. Being a lover of all things weird (you should see my Netflix queue), I...
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New Helvetica documentary clips posted!
For those of you fiending for the upcoming Helvetica documentary, you can now get a quick fix to help tide you over… four new sample video clips were just posted on the official site for your guilty...
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IdN font promotional issue
The latest issue of IdN Magazine is a special “font promotional issue” featuring some interesting interviews with foundries who are greying the lines between type design and graphic design like Cape...
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