2 days ago
Greg Storey : Can a typeface reflect a culture? - Good question, let's ask London.
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3 days ago
Greg Storey : Reading long pages of sans serif type was "genuine torture". - True of false?
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6 days ago
Richard Rutter : The Fell Types - A history, digitisation available free, of this beautiful 17th Century typeface.
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9 days ago
Greg Storey : Trixie goes HD. - Would only be better if some THX sound was thrown in.
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12 days ago
philgyford : LRB · letters page from Vol. 30 No. 14 - The '10' on 10 Downing Street's front door is Trajan, with an upper case 'O' instead of a zero.
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20 days ago
jonhicks : 10 Great Free Fonts for @font-face embedding - Surprisingly there are 10 good fonts out there that are legal to embed. One for Safari 3.1 only
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wearehugh : The future of web font embedding | clagnut/blog - some interesting ideas for new/additional business models once 3 major browsers support embedded fonts
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veen : UTF-8 Browser Test for Unicode Block 'Miscellaneous Technical'
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1 month ago
Greg Storey : Font Conference. - "Airplane, eight ball, ying-yang, glasses, mailbox...open mailbox!"
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wearehugh : Incremental leading : Journal : Mark Boulton
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2 month ago
Richard Rutter : What is OpenType? - A great primer to OpenType (in particular read it with a view to what’s missing in CSS).
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2 month ago
Cameron Moll : Handwritten Typographers - "The handwriting of typographers intrigues me because it raises so many questions, big and small: Do typographers exert some extraordinary control of the pen that laypersons don't? ... So, to satisfy my own curiosity I asked a number of prominent typograp
veen : Handwritten Typographers - "So, to satisfy my own curiosity I asked a number of prominent typographers to send me a scan of their handwriting. This is the result."
Andy Baio : Handwritten Typographers - comparing type designers' handwriting to the typefaces they created
Milo Vermeulen : Handwritten Typographers [via]
Eric Meyer : Handwritten Typographers - Very interesting. Especially for someone like me, whose handwriting isn't very attractive.
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2 month ago
Greg Storey : Playing card deck 2008. - Only to be used when gambling with typefaces.
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2 month ago
Richard Rutter : Detail in Typography - Jost Hochuli’s concise guide to micro-typography considers everything that can happen within a column of text. Want.
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3 month ago
nelson : Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - interesting details on a pre-1500 printed book with remarkable design
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : The paragraph in web typography - Jon Tan explains all. Fabulous stuff.
Cameron Moll : The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design - Jon Tan's The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design is one of the most well-written (and thorough) articles I've read in some time. Includes a history of the paragraph element, thoughts about print and web usage, and several examples with code.
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3 month ago
mmb : dria.org » Blog Archive » Firefox 3: Fonts and text - dria.org » Blog Archive » Firefox 3: Fonts and text via popurls® | popular urls to the latest web buzz [via]
Richard Rutter : Firefox 3 fonts and text - Detailing the many improvements to text rendering.
Jeremy Zawodny : Firefox 3: Fonts and text - Firefox 3: Fonts and text: yet another reason to upgrade
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4 month ago
jonhicks : Typotheque: OpenType features - Just so you know, a great resource on OpenType Features
Cameron Moll : OpenType cheatsheet - Typotheque's OpenType features list works pretty well as an OpenType cheatsheet.
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4 month ago
bmilleare : This is How You Get sIFR to Work
jonhicks : » This is How You Get sIFR to Work | Design Intellection
Eric Meyer : This is How You Get sIFR to Work - I have needed this for the longest time, and now it's finally here.
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4 month ago
Greg Storey : Alphabet City. - Jason documents his time on the Tobias Frere-Jones's Type Tour II.
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