Articles by John Boardley

Typeface Design

Type @ Cooper Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, offers a Certificate Program in Typeface Design. Very nice web design by Nick Sherman.

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WebINK

Web Fonts from Extensis WebINK, another new webfonts service. This one from Extensis: Let me know if you’ve had the opportunity to use it. Currently in beta.

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iPad vs Kindle

By Jakob Nielsen An interesting readability study on the two devices, from Jakob Nielsen. via @iA

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Jules Verne

By Jim Teirney Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney from Jim Tierney on Vimeo. via @ashetler

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New FontFont webfonts

Majoor Love I was thinking, if only Scala & Scala Sans were released as web fonts. Well, now they’re here, and accompanied by some 300 others from the FontFont library.

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Biome — the making of a typeface

A biome in nature is essentially an ecosystem. It’s also the name for my new typeface family. And now that the 14-weight Biome™ Wide family is complete, I’m able to look back on the process.

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Folder Type

By Emilio Gomariz 22,655 folders! Folder Type (Spanish) [Google English]

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