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nelson : Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - interesting details on a pre-1500 printed book with remarkable design
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nelson : Arabic typesetting - Good overview of the challenges and history
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Estupido Espezial, a joke version of OCR-A with swashes - even their joke typefaces get them paid [via]
nelson : Decorative OCR font - Funny story of typographer love
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4 month ago
jonhicks : FontStruct - A new web application for creating your own fonts from a series of geometric pieces, and sharing the results. I had a play as a beta tester and found it really easy and a jolly good wheeze too
Greg Storey : Fontstruct! - Best web app ever.
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4 month ago
wearehugh : GNU FreeFont: new release 2008-03-19 - gnu.announce | Google Groups
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4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes - The usual suspects – didn’t know about the currency punctuation though.
43folders : Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes | Life, Tutorials
adamrg : Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes - Guilty as charged. Worse, I knew better in many cases.
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philgyford : The Fell Types - My Revival Fonts - Fonts derived from late 17th century printing.
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6 month ago
Richard Rutter : Windows ClearType fonts are installed with OfficeMac 2008 - Good news.
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7 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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8 month ago
Richard Rutter : Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard fonts list - As Tiger plus fonts for braille and Microsoft compatibility.
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8 month ago
factoryjoe : Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign - Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web's highest quality fonts. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: fonts, typography, type, free fonts, design
philgyford : Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign - What it says. (via Blackbeltjones)
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8 month ago
joshua : programming: Droid Sans Mono great coding font - yet another font thread
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8 month ago
jonhicks : Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform | Typophile
deusx : Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform | Typophile - "Droid was designed by Ascender’s Steve Matteson to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text."
factoryjoe : Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform | Typophile - “Ascender is proud to be providing the font solution to the Android platform built by the Open Handset Alliance. We believe that handset manufacturers, wireless carriers and application developers will be very happy with the fonts prov
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9 month ago
joshua : James Duncan Davidson on Bitstream Vera Sans Mono - Another thread on programming fonts
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9 month ago
wearehugh : flash tekkie » Blog Archive » WebKit is leading the run for CSS3
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9 month ago
wearehugh : Code Style: Sans serif font sampler and survey results
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10 month ago
jonhicks : Webkit now supports @font-face - Oooh, I love you webkit team! Soon Opera and Safari will allow proper typeface goodness without the need for background images or SifR
factoryjoe : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Downloadable Fonts - "WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules. With font face rules you can specify downloadable custom fonts on your Web pages or alias one font to another. This article on A List Apart describes the feature in detail. All of the examples l
wearehugh : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Downloadable Fonts
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10 month ago
43folders : Inconsolata - "It is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print." This immediately became my favorite monospace font. It's kicky!
joshua : Inconsolata - the programming font i seem to use a lot
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10 month ago
Richard Rutter : The script conundrum - Joe on researching script fonts for his blog headlines.
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark) - extraordinary
Ethan Marcotte : Joe Clark’s "Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway" - A gorgeous, exhaustively researched paper presented at this year's ATypI conference. Joe should be a fixture at every conference ever. #.
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12 month ago
43folders : Comic Book Fonts | Home - "Get as many of our individual fonts as you like for half price through August 6, 2007" Beautiful faces. [via: Andy I.]
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12 month ago
Richard Rutter : iPhone Fonts From Mac OS X - Also doubles as a OS X font list.
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