Typographica identifies all the fonts in the
Typographica identifies all the fonts in the font-o-riffic opening titles for Thank You for Smoking.
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A list of the best license-free quality
A list of the best license-free quality fonts. From a few months ago, but still useful.
Open source type design
In Five Steps to Font Freedom, Adrian of Be A Design Group suggests some ways to improve typography on the web, noting that you don’t need to own the fonts in books, movies, newspapers to view works in those media. The fifth suggestion is interesting, even outside of that particular goal:
5. Build Free Versions of the Classic Fonts
If we can’t convince the font companies to set their versions of classic fonts free, we will recreate them ourselves. The great fonts are based on designs that are centuries old that can’t possibly be protected by copyright law. Although it would be a major task, the collective power of the online community could create quality versions of classic fonts. Little by little, we can build an open source classic font library! Does anybody have a complete set of the original Garamond that I can borrow? Let’s get started…
Applying the open source development process to make freely available and modifiable versions of classic fonts like Garamond, Caslon, Bodoni, Baskerville, etc. is a fantastic idea.
The typography of the logos of Web 2.0 companies. (via waxy)
The typography of the logos of Web 2.0 companies. (via waxy)
In Meet the Fockers, the sign on
In Meet the Fockers, the sign on a terminal at the O’Hare airport is typeset in Chicago, an old Macintosh system font. Har har. (via mark)
The Folk Typography Pool contains photos of
The Folk Typography Pool contains photos of type made by people who are not designers, typographers, or calligraphers. (thx, paul)
The designer of Comic Sans on how
The designer of Comic Sans on how that beloved font came to be. Photos of Comic Sans in the wild.
Erik Spiekermann explains how Nokia’s corporate typeface
Erik Spiekermann explains how Nokia’s corporate typeface came to be. Looks like it was based on one of Nokia’s onscreen bitmap fonts. I’ve always wanted to create a “real” version of Silkscreen like that.
Typographica’s favorite fonts of 2005, part 1. Arrival and Vista look nice.
Typographica’s favorite fonts of 2005, part 1. Arrival and Vista look nice.
Watch the kids get into a good
Watch the kids get into a good old fashioned font fight in the comments about fake signs on the NYC subway. Don’t miss your chance to read “it’s Helvetica, bitches” in a context where it makes complete sense. (thx, j guns)
Fontographer, a once popular font editing program,
Fontographer, a once popular font editing program, has been updated for the first time since 1996. (via df)
Typographic dating game. Who will it be
Typographic dating game. Who will it be for the evening…Futura, Garamond, Bodoni?
Mark Simonson gives Gangs of New York 3
Mark Simonson gives Gangs of New York 3 out of 5 stars for its use of typography. This is the latest in a series of posts about type in movies, starting with his original Typecasting article.
Helvetica vs. Arial. Two of the world’s
Helvetica vs. Arial. Two of the world’s most popular typefaces battle it out for supremacy.
Ellen Lupton is up on stage now
Ellen Lupton is up on stage now talking about dumb quotes, weird scaling, and pseudo italics.
FontHunt is a typographic scavenger hunt taking
FontHunt is a typographic scavenger hunt taking place in NYC the week of July 21. Doesn’t get much geekier (or cooler) than this, folks.
An incomplete listing of typefaces seen at Walt Disney World
An incomplete listing of typefaces seen at Walt Disney World.
Mercury Text typeface comes in four different
Mercury Text typeface comes in four different grades so you can pick the right one for the medium you’re publishing in. Hoefler and Frere-Jones are the best kind of crazy.
Microsoft recently licensed their core and web
Microsoft recently licensed their core and web fonts (Verdana, Georgia, etc.) to Ascender. These fonts were formerly distributed free of charge on the web by Microsoft…now they only come free with MS products.
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