By Alec Julien Andas sempre à procura por inspiração tipográfica, trago uma caligrafia barata orientada no Verão, convencido que os meus gatafunhos fariam letras mágicas. Uma semana e dezenas de páginas depois, não tinham nada interessante ou vagamente artístico. Depois, uma noite, cansado e desesperado, e não tendo tinta preta, […]
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FF Unit Rounded Ready to Roll News just in from Erik van Blokland writing on SpiekerBlog is that Unit Rounded is now complete. One of the dangers inherent in creating one of these rounded types is the ‘sausage effect’. Those rounded corners may well look OK at one weight, but […]
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Graphic designer, curator, artist, educator and writer, Ellen Lupton is perhaps best known for her Thinking With Type—a book that in many respects opened up typography to a wider audience. Many have remarked that she made learning about typography fun; and ‘do I look fat in this paragraph’ and ‘typography […]
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Read MoreSunday Type: Iso Type
Give me my Fix January is certainly the month of lists, and here’s MyFonts list of their Top Ten Fonts of 2007. My personal favourites are these two. The first is a ‘handwriting’ font inspired by a handwriting sample from the 1930s. Mark van Bronkhorst turned it into a font […]
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The List: Q1 2008 What better way to start the year than with a little typographic inspiration. Last year I published 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography, and owing to its popularity and people’s sateless appetite for lists, here are another 15. I’ve decided to make this a regular feature […]
Read MoreSunday Type: Feel Type
Sayonara 2007 Welcome to the last Sunday Type of 2007. It has certainly been an interesting year. I recently received an email from a reader pointing out that the links to my archives, prior to August 2007 are missing. Well, of course, that’s because iLT didn’t come into existence until […]
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An Interview With Neil Summerour Neil has published over 40 typeface families (over 420 fonts). In 1992 he opened his own foundry, Positype. He has also lectured on type design in Japan and the U.S., and his fonts have been used by the likes of XXL Magazine, MTV, VH1 and […]
Read MoreSunday type: Evan’s Type
A Merry Typemas Am I really writing this on the eve of Christmas Eve! Goodness–all in the name of type. Anyway, I didn’t want you missing your weekly Sunday Type. If there’s anyone sober out there, here goes. Let’s start with an Epic, or rather the Epic typeface from Neil […]
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An Interview With Kris Sowersby
Many of you will have heard of Kris Sowersby, and something tells me that we’re going to be hearing a lot more about him. He’s the guy behind the sans serif typeface National and the serif typeface Feijoa; he was also on the team of three that created (perhaps type […]
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