The Serifless Roman Welcome to another edition of Sunday Type. I hope that everyone had a good week. It’s been an especially busy week, with more than the usual number of emails through iLT. Kris Sowersby’s Why Bembo Sucks article was incredibly popular. There are some more great articles to […]
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Estudio de un caso de creación de fuentes: Joules
Por Alec Julien Siempre en la búsqueda de la inspiración tipográfica, compré una pluma caligráfica durante el verano, convencido de que mis garabatos con ella terminarían convirtiéndose en unas mágicas letras. Una semana y una docena de páginas después, estaba sin nada interesante o incluso lejanamente artístico. Luego, una noche, […]
Read MoreTerminologie typographique: Garalde
Griffo à Caslon Dans la première partie de cette série, nous avons abordé les caractères humanistiques; aussi bien dans leur contexte historique que pour leurs caractéristiques visuelles, hier et aujourd’hui. On continue la chronologie en s’attardant un peu, le temps de se familiariser, sur certaines garaldes magnifiques. Nous avons déjà […]
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Book Review Recently I received through the post something large, yellow and weighing 3kg. No, not a genetically modified banana, but FontShop’s FontBook, an the encyclopaedia of type. This book really should come with a health warning: my postman almost had a hernia delivering it, and very nearly sprained his […]
Read MoreWhy Bembo Sucks
By Kris Sowersby At a recent panel discussion on New Zealand book design, I lambasted the overuse of Bembo in many New Zealand books. As more questions were asked than could be answered, I wrote this article to explain myself. Let me begin with a brief history.
Read MoreSunday Type: Spaced-out Type
The Art of S PAC ING Regular readers may well remember the lovely 1940s-style brush script, Kinescope, from the talented Mark Simonson. Mark’s latest offering is Filmotype Glenlake, a digital revival of a classic Filmotype font from the Fifties. And if you have no idea what Filmotype is, then head […]
Read MoreHistory of typography: Transitional
For a modern-day transitional typeface, be sure to check out the Brill typeface family. Part 3: Siècle des Lumières Welcome to part three of our Type Terms series. In part one we traveled all the way back to the 15th century to take a closer look at the Humanist or […]
Read MoreTerminologie typographique: Humanistique
Incunabula De la dentisterie à l’élevage des chiens, chaque sujet possède son propre jargon, un champ lexical qui lui est propre. La typographie ne fait pas exception, et en appréhender le vocable ne peut que la rendre plus accessible. Ce qui en définitive mène à une meilleure compréhension et appréciation […]
Read MoreTerminologia de Tipos: Humanista
Incunabula Cada tema, desde a odontologia até manipulação do cão tem o seu próprio vocabulário – termos que são peculiares (único) para ele. A Tipografia não é excepção. Aprender a língua franca (lingo) dos tipos vai fazer a tipografia muito mais acessível, e que irá, por sua vez, conduzir a […]
Read MoreSunday Type: Potato Type
More Edible Type We’ve had chocolate type, but that’s just for dessert. Well, here’s some carbohydrates in the form of potato type. How do you like your type? Baked, boiled, fried, sautéed, perhaps? Which type would you use for your own potatoes? I’d go for sautéed Parisine.
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