1 month ago
Richard Rutter : The Fell Types - A history, digitisation available free, of this beautiful 17th Century typeface.
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2 month ago
Richard Rutter : The Fell Types - A history, digitisation available free, of this beautiful 17th Century typeface.
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2 month 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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10 month ago
Andy Baio : On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters - the accompanying Flickr pool [via]
nelson : Trajan is the Movie Font - Type criticism can be funny!
plasticbag : Trajan is the Movie Font - Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean 'movie' then why confuse them?
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10 month ago
plasticbag : Kada is a lovely and super-fashionable new display font that I've sort of got a thing for... - There are other ones like it at the moment, but so far this is the one I like most.
jonhicks : RBG6 | Kada
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12 month ago
Richard Rutter : FF Meta Serif - A serif companion to the sans Meta. Co-drawn with Spiekermann by Christian Schwartz, creator of Guardian Egyptian.
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14 month ago
Richard Rutter : Font rendering philosophies of Windows and Mac OS X - Good little summary.
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14 month ago
nelson : Gentium font - Professionally designed free font with coverage of extended Latin, Greek.
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15 month ago
plasticbag : dafont.com has posted up a proposed serif version of Comic Sans... - It's actually surprisingly nice. Reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on it.
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17 month ago
wearehugh : Red Hat News | Liberation Fonts
nelson : Redhat liberation fonts - New free fonts commissioned. The sans looks ok.
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19 month ago
nelson : 3x8 fixed font - Amazing tiny font for Gameboy, uses subpixel positioning to make a readable font
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19 month ago
nelson : Blog de Sylfurd - Blog from the guy who created the 3x8 font for gameboy
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20 month ago
Richard Rutter : A serif companion for Meta - It will be everywhere by the end of the year.
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20 month ago
jcgregorio : freedesktop.org git - cairo/commit - Bugs with font selection in Cairo. Why do we care? That's what Firefox uses for SVG rendering.
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gleuschk : Syracuse University Graphic Identity Standards - now I just need to get my hands on Fenice Regular. anyone?
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25 month ago
Isofarro : Text-Resize in the browser sets the scale of SWF - From Lawrence Carvalho's and Christian Heilmann's A List Apart article about detecting font-resizing, Niqui Merret has taken the idea a step further to notify a Flash Object of a resize. Increasing the font-size in the browser now gets noticed by Flash. E
Paul Hammond : niqui merret » Blog Archive » Text-Resize in the browser sets the scale of SWF - I wrote a little JavaScript function that used the TextResizeDetector created by Lawrence Carvalho and resized the div that the SWF was placed in
fastclemmy : Text-Resize in the browser sets the scale of SWF - Text-Resize in the browser sets the scale of SWF by fastclemmy & 3 other(s) I was inspired by a demo that Chris Heilmann showed that changed the formatting of a list according to the size of the font and thought about how great it would be to
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27 month ago
plasticbag : FF Roiceâ„¢ font family - For some reason I keep coming back to this set of fonts. I keep thinking there's something lovely about them that might make them fun to work with.
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37 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Typetester - "...an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen". [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen [via]
jkottke : Typetester - Typetester is a web-based font comparison tool which somehow (I'm assuming JavaScript) can preview text in the fonts you have installed on your local machine. Pretty cool.
Richard Rutter : Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen.
Eric Meyer : Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen - Nice little web-based web typography widget. Web web web.
plasticbag : Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen - Beautiful piece of work that allows to compare and explore fonts for screen use and then even get the CSS so you can use them on the web
deusx : Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen - "Test your fonts here."
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Richard Rutter : The story of Guardian Egyptian - Fascinating tale of the creation of the paper’s new typeface.
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41 month ago
jkottke : The Helvetica Meditations
plasticbag : The Helvetica Meditations from Typographi.com - Some beautiful and oddly poignant pictures containing Helvetica. #24 is kind of darkly entertaining I suppose as well...
Richard Rutter : The Helvetica Meditations - A gellery of Helvetica, as used in all walks of life in the UK.
Nelson Minar : Helvetica meditations - White paint takes on significance (via everyone)
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43 month ago
plasticbag : FF Alega font family - Currently much loving this intriguing little font. Doesn't look too good in the previews, but I think it has some interesting applications...
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plasticbag : I keep coming back to typographica's top fonts of 2004... - ...so I guess I should actually bookmark the damn thing. Currently loving the look of Neo Sans and Neo Tech...
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44 month ago
kaninka.net : Nýtt letur frá Microsoft
Rod Begbie : The Next Big Thing in Online Type - MS launching new "Corefonts" in 2006 to replace Verdana, Tahoma, etc. [via] #
Paul Hammond : Poynter Online - The Next Big Thing in Online Type - Beginning in 2006, Microsoft says it will ship with its operating system and other software products six brand new typefaces created especially for extended on-screen reading
Andy Baio : Microsoft previews new screen fonts shipping with Longhorn - surprisingly tasteful, but how do they look at 9px aliased? [via] [via]
jkottke : Here's a look at the new screen fonts that Microsoft will start shipping in 2006 - "The Microsoft collection includes two serif, three sans serif, and a monospaced face for use in programming environments. They are intended to be text typefaces as opposed to display faces that are used in larger sizes for headlines."
plasticbag : Microsoft's new fonts designed for screen and print use - The article seems to imply that these should be used for web use - hopefully designers won't be stupid enough to go along with that...
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Monotype's Flash articulation of Neo Sans - Looks like a really elegant and beautiful modern technologist's typeface
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plasticbag : Fontsmith on the bespoke typeface they created for the Channel 4 re-brand - Very nice, very stylish. Disappointingly not available for the rest of us
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