I Love Typography: The Rather Difficult Font Game
This is pretty nerdy, but I’m getting to really love typography — serif this, ascender that, kern this, forge that. It all sounds so… foreign. Oooohh. So, when I heard about I Love Typography‘s new...
View ArticleNew Feature: Typekit support
I just updated the site with 2 new fonts from Typekit: Chunk for the headers and Droid Serif for the body copy. You can also see which faces I’m using. Although it’s an experiment for now, the...
View ArticleWith Copyright Protectors Like These, who Needs Enemies? – Brand New
One of my favorite blogs is Brand New. Each post is informative and enjoyable. Recently, they posted an incredible story displaying the dangers of protectors failing to live up to their own standards....
View ArticleThe Making of Vesper | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
How are fonts designed? What are the steps and decisions a font designer must make to create a really vibrant and successful font? As someone who recently started enjoying fonts, I’ve never really...
View ArticleThe Evolution of The Logo – Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine has published a short history of the logo. As a fan of logos (both the plural of logo and the software Logos (which is completely unrelated to the word logo)), from printers’ marks...
View ArticleElectronic Books & Printed Books: Conflict and Opportunity
I love books, just like Jeff Atwood, who compares electronic books with their age-old printed counterparts, concluding that …unless the publishers are willing to treat eBooks with the same respect and...
View ArticleNew fonts
I’ve updated the fonts on this site. TypeKit was fine, but I found several free fonts on www.myfonts.com that I really liked, all with unlimited web usage: Calluna (both Regular and Sans Regular) and...
View ArticleTypecast
Typecast (beta.typecastapp.com) is a new website from Front designed to make web typography and design easier. Supporting fonts from typekit, fonts.com, Font Desk, and Google web fonts, Typecast...
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