posted on: 17 September 2009
“ In a nutshell, Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type. ”
posted on: 27 April 2009
“ It's said that when launching a new ship, it's bad luck if the ceremonial bottle of champagne doesn't break. Well, if the ship in question is Typographica's long-awaited redesign, then there is no need to worry, because this list - the site's fifth annual accounting of the best in new typeface design - represents the proverbial bottle being blasted into oblivion, showering all onlookers with a selection of amazing typefaces. ”
posted on: 24 April 2009
“ WLT is an image, video and text “bookmarking” site that is wholly dedicated to type-related content. Think of it as a type-centric and visional delicious, if you like.”
posted on: 09 April 2009
“ Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it's in the details that designers often neglect. ”
posted on: 25 January 2009
On I Love Typography :
posted on: 13 January 2009
A book in PDF format by Massimo Vignelli on understanding typography in graphic design (via AisleOne):
posted on: 08 December 2008
posted on: 30 October 2008
“ The first W3C Recommendation for CSS level 2 (1998) included a feature called “Web Fonts” to deal with the situation where a style sheet referred to a font that wasn't present on the user's machine. One thing it allowed was a link to a remote font file so that it could be downloaded. Only Microsoft decided to implement it. ”
posted on: 24 October 2008
“ This site intends to survey all of the signs in New York City from 14th Street to 42nd Street. Of course, this is not possible, since there would be tens of thousands of signs within this area. The 29 crosstown streets are each 10 to 11 blocks long (1st Ave. to 11th or 12th Aves.). This gives some 300 blocks, each containing, say, 100 signs of one type or another. This would total 30,000. Even if we eliminated the repetitive traffic signs (actually, each one is different, in setting if not otherwise), the remainder would probably be over 20,000 ... ”
I'm Italian so I couldn't resist..I don't know any of the foods written on the sign...maybe Frank is not Italian? Just kidding, I actually like this web site quite a lot.
posted on: 22 October 2008
“ The final test for running text is legibility, so failing to notice would mean the style was not imposing on the text. The texture was good. When they occur, stylistic interruptions provide me with food for thought. If the punctuation interrupts the meaning, it demands fresh scrutiny. Double quotation marks seemed to interrupt by emphasizing too heavily. ”
posted on: 06 October 2008
posted on: 01 October 2008
TYPECHART lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS :
posted on: 16 September 2008
“ Hit pause for a moment and consider how greatly we - people in the digital age - are indebted to typographers. Almost all of our visual communication is delivered using the products of their craft: newspapers, SMSes, instant messages, emails, web pages, signs, posters, billboards; the list of purposes is endless. In these days where looping strokes have been replaced by keyboard clickety-clack, typographers define the style and tone of our missives. Would you like to be elegant, modern, childish or ... disturbed? Then you can choose between Garamond, Montag, Comic Sans, Zebraflesh, and a thousand more. There's great power in a typeface, but what's always interested me more than the typeface is the designer behind it - why did they create the typeface? Where did their inspiration come from? How did they start? ”
posted on: 12 September 2008
“ In Melbourne I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark while working for Emery Studio. The distorted letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. ”
posted on: 11 September 2008
posted on: 04 September 2008
posted on: 02 September 2008
The library and the blog of Jos Buivenga (LJB) where you can find his (8) free fonts:
posted on: 24 August 2008
On davidthedesigner a series of articles on:
posted on: 23 August 2008
A beautiful post on BibliOdyssey:
Beautiful calligraphy images. Links to the artists' pages are provided.
posted on: 22 August 2008
One more article on the history of type on I Love Typography :
posted on: 19 August 2008
i love typography's Sunday Type post is, as usual, a treasure chest:
posted on: 28 June 2008
An interesting article on the use of font-stacks:
Better CSS Font Stacks
And a guide to the most common fonts on Windows, Mac and Unix platforms:
CSS font sampler and survey
posted on: 03 June 2008
Four beautiful articles on type history:
posted on: 28 April 2008
“ Welcome to CarType. A comprehensive study and collection of reviews and typographical applications of emblems, car company logos and car logos with images, comments, links, car company information and general interest.”
posted on: 28 April 2008
“ There are some basic approaches, guidelines and goals to consider when working with type on the Web. Overall, the medium of Web typography involves readability, accessibility, usability, and brandability. On the Web, these aspects function together to accomplish design's goals of communication and user interaction.”
5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web
“ Design is broken up into a number of basic principles that apply to all design from type creation to painting to page layout, both on the web and in print. However, especially on the web, these rules tend to be forgotten and we just go with what feels “right”. This isn't because designers are feeling too loose to abandon these rules, but rather, most people working on the web don't even know they exist - if they do, they don't understand how to use them.”
posted on: 20 April 2008
Via Veerle's blog:
“ The term ampersand, as Geoffrey Glaister writes in his “Glossary of the Book”, is a corruption of and (&) per se and, which literally means “(the character) & by itself (is the word) and”. The symbol & is derived from the ligature of ET or et, which is the Latin word for “and”.”
posted on: 16 April 2008
Another post on Authentic Boredom :
Techniques for designing with type characters
A very beautiful way of using characters.
posted on: 03 April 2008
“ In this article I will attempt to illustrate my design process - from typeface concept to a marketable font. Not many folks are willing to write about this. Perhaps they find it boring, irrelevant or just a little bit personal. I suspect it is a mix of all the above.”
Newzald: From Moleskine to Market
Very interesting article. Thanks Kris.
posted on: 20 March 2008
Via AceJet170:
“ Numerals (or figures) can take various forms. The figure style you choose ought to be appropriate to the project you are working on. Readability is key. But which style is best for which purpose?”
Oldstyle/Lining/Tabular figures explained
“ Like most punctuation, the paragraph mark (or pilcrow) has an exotic history. It's tempting to recognize the symbol as a “P for paragraph” though the resemblance is incidental: in its original form, the mark was an open C crossed by a vertical line or two, a scribal abbreviation for capitulum, the Latin word for chapter.”
posted on: 05 February 2008
On Information Architects Japan:
Good article, I often end up having to adjust the font size. I would have thought almost anyone knew about sizing text at this point in time but many times readability is still a problem.
posted on: 23 December 2007
posted on: 12 December 2007
Two articles on 24ways:
Typesetting Tables by Mark Boulton
Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6 by Drew McLellan
posted on: 03 December 2007
An article on A List Apart:
posted on: 09 November 2007
“ Published in 1954, Fitts's Law is an effective method of modeling the relationship of a very specific, yet common situation in interface design. That situation involves a human-powered appendage at rest (whether it's physical like your finger or virtual like a mouse cursor) and a target area that's located somewhere else.”
“ Good typographic design tells a story. It works at a micro level such as typesetting, and typeface selection etc. But it also works at a macro level. Macro level typography is about layout, rhythm and whitespace. But it's also about content and the story the designer is trying to tell through the type.”
posted on: 17 August 2007
Some resources to make it easier to find typographic inspiration and instruction:
posted on: 03 July 2007
“ Web pages are more akin to print editorial pages than print advertising pages in their complexity and sequentiality. Web ads, however, can be compared to television commercials: web ads are brief, five-second spots, compared to the thirty-second spots that appear, for example, on the network news.”
posted on: 23 June 2007
By Mark Boulton:
posted on: 26 March 2007
Third post of the Uncommon knowledge series by AceJet170 :
003
and a comment post on it:
uncommon knowlege
posted on: 09 February 2007
On webtypography.net:
posted on: 08 February 2007
Via Ace Jet 170:
posted on: 04 January 2007
Three article typography related on iA:
posted on: 22 December 2006
On Ideasonideas:
posted on: 29 September 2006
Two articles on Think Vitamin:
“ Choosing the best fonts for your site is about more than making it look pretty: different typefaces send out different signals.”
“ The last couple of years may have seen an increase in the level of interest and action around web standards. But it still isn't filtering down to the mainstream.”
posted on: 13 September 2006
I believe that the Net should be a place open to all. Those that can afford to buy have no problem but those that don't should still have a chance. Lately Andrei Herasimchuk as asked for some fonts to be freely available. I agree, so I thought I'll make my case and join my voice to theirs (as asked by Andrei):
So, Mr. John Wornock, thanks for all you've done and we'd appreciate if you'd release some of those fonts.
posted on: 08 August 2006
Three interesting posts on Noisy Decent Graphics:
posted on: 26 July 2006
Five simple steps to better typography
five good articles by Mark Boulton
Photoshop type tips
a good tip on how to choose fonts
posted on: 09 July 2006
Via typographic trivia on India,Ink. :
posted on: 06 July 2006
Using proper quotation marks:
When using the ALT keystrokes in Windows, use the numeric keypad not the row of numbers above the alphabet and be sure Num Lock is turned ON.
There are some important differences between Windows and non-Windows display of characters:
on the use of some MS Windows characters in HTML
posted on: 17 January 2006
Typography and CSS on Digital Web Magazine
On 24 Ways css background images
posted on: 29 December 2005
posted on: 16 December 2005
An article on Sitepoint about web fonts:
posted on: 11 December 2005
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. A practical guide to web typography: webtypography.net
