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"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox"
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My walking experience with the AIGA NY ALPHABET/CITY: A WALKING TOUR WITH TOBIAS FRERE-JONES
"Where do you begin when you’re one of only twenty three people that gets to walk around New York with Tobias Frere-Jones hearing about his observations on type and how it influenced the great typeface Gotham?"
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New website.
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"Paula's is filled with 14 whimsical fonts she drew while on an airplane and sitting by the sea in Jamaica."
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How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.
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A two-minute animated introduction to typography
"A two-minute animated introduction to typography created by Vancouver Film School students Ryan Uhrich and Marcos Ceravolo."
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Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
"Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays."
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A giant list of companies and the typeface they use.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface
"Why choose a particular typeface? Here are thirteen reasons."
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New at Pentagram: TIME Magazine
"Today, TIME launches the first issue of a major redesign developed by Pentagram’s Luke Hayman with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and art director Arthur Hochstein."
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"The "What does Marsellus Wallace Look Like" scene in Pulp Fiction portrayed using nothing but typography. By Jarratt Moody."
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Michael Bierut explains the new Saks' identity by Pentagram
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Erik Spiekermann answers "What is the ONE thing you think every student of typography should know?"
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"This week, FontShop takes a trip to the supermarket in search of palatable packaging. Among the shelves cluttered with superfluous drop shadows and chaotic typography, it was easy to spot the few beautiful boxes."
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"Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface . . . as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives."
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Seth Godin is now giving typography advice.
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Shock of the Neue: Graffiti Fonts By Graffiti Writers
"The fledgling type foundry is working with regional writers from the United States to create digital typefaces that take their inspiration from graffiti in their expressiveness, yet are regulated for evenness in typographic settings."
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Typographic Tips: Apostrophes & Quotation Marks
Quotes can be smart or dumb. To set type intelligently, read this easy introduction to the differences between prime symbols, acute accents, apostrophes, and quotation marks.
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"Whatever one thinks about this administration’s domestic and foreign policies, the White House’s garish type selections are so thoughtless they trivialize rather than enhance the rhetoric of our POTUS"
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Thank You For Smoking opening main titles
Very nicely designed opening title sequence for the movie Thank You For Smoking.
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Explaining the differences between Times Roman and Times New Roman, in case you were interested.
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Font Spotting the Thank You for Smoking Titles
Typographica IDs almost all the fonts in the titles of Thank You for Smoking.
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In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory
"Just as the purpose of DNA analysis is to identify the location and function of every human gene, so the study of typefaces can be seen as an attempt to understand the formal appearance of the smallest unit of the written word."
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"Autobahn has developped a font wich can be used on fences. The font is based uppon the grid of the fence."
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Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses
"This study sought to determine if certain personalities and uses are associated with various fonts."
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Starting points for typographic inspiration.
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A typophile forum thread about why typographers are so passionate about their craft.
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The New York Times touches on the current fascination with type.
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"These are some of the links I came across in the last month . . . of reasonable interest, such as links to new foundries and pages of typographers."
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Site of a type designer with a TON of free fonts.
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The portfolio site of Thomas Schostok.
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Oded Ezer - experimental Hebrew typography
"A letter is something that came up from culture, it is an artificial sign for something which has a meaning and long history behind it. What I’m trying to do is to understand this process of creating and re-shaping this cultural element."
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dot-font: Ten Tips for Top Type
It doesn't take much to produce pages with type that looks professional and pleasing, and that's easy to read.
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"The finicky world of CSS isn’t the best match for the precise art of typography, but you can do more to improve the readability and beauty of your Web pages than you think."
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Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1
Typographica's favortie fonts from the first half of 2005 . . . for whatever reason I love reading about typography . . .
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Designers: New York Commuters Need You!
Choosing new fonts for those signs asking for rides in and out of New York.
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Erik Spiekermann - typography and design today
"Erik Spiekermann calls himself an information architect. He is equally comfortable and prolific as a writer, graphic and typeface designer."
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Baskerville Old Face meets Notorious B.I.G.
A typography music video. It seems so appropriate considering the man was best known for his words.
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Typeface of the month: Gill Sans
A deep look at Gill Sans, typeface of the BBC amongst others.
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For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined.
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A cool flash/video-based thingamabober that . . . oh hell, just go to the site.
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Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML gap
Using a real estate listing to explain how semantic XHTML should work.
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Portfolio of Eduardo Recife.
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Typography Crash Course Roundup
"The following resources are comprised of some of my favorite articles on the subject and some sites that should give most a great head start."
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20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts
"Top 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts, which are likely to be used rather for official, serious presentations (such as business sites) than a colourful teenager’s homepage."
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"FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software."
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The Guardian's New European Look
"It can take months before the full potential and strengths of a newspaper redesign become apparent. A paper is an instrument and its editors and designers have to learn how to play it to perfection."
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More coverage of the Guardian's redesign
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"The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It's primary role is to make web designer's or web developer's life easier."
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Flash game in which Helvetica and Arial duke it out. Helvetica to Arial: "We don't need your type here."
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"FONTSMACK is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts."
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Assessing the new Guardian, with brief nod to the avant-garde (aka Grazia, Heat and The Sun)
A very long look at the Guardian's print redesign by cityofsound
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An interactive gallery of movie title sequences designed by Saul Bass
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300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
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"If you could only buy 6 fonts, what would they be?"
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NYTimes: "While most of us don't think about typography, beyond choosing among the preinstalled fonts in our home computers, consider an up-and-coming font, like Bello."
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"FontFreak.com, one of the largest and most visited free-/shareware font archive on the net."
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"John D. Berry journeys through the bowels of our transit systems in search of enlightenment and a few clear directions."
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Five simple steps to better typography
"So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography. To kick it off, part one is about the Measure."
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