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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...

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New 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...

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With 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....

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Electronic 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...

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New 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...

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Typecast

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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