Typography Links

Why Capital Letters are Called “Upper Case” The first word of this sentence is a little different than the rest — it begins with a capital letter.	Mumbai’s Growing Creative Scene is Luring in Graphic Designers More designers + illustrators are moving to the Indian city—here’s what your life might look like if you joined them.	Introducing USWDS 2.0 USWDS 2.0 adds built-in support for custom typefaces, and sometimes you need one that’s simple, neutral, and isn’t Helvetica.
Helvetica, the World’s Most Famous Typeface, Gets a Makeover Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces on the planet. Here’s why Monotype decided to remake it.	Who Was Garamond, Anyway? The History Behind 5 Classic Typefaces The author of a new dictionary of typefaces explains the origins of some of the best-known type–and their lesser-known namesakes.	The National Parks’ Iconic Typeface Has Never Been Digitized–Until Now The type, which features rounded edges carved into wood in all caps, has become an icon of the National Parks system.
New Font Sans Forgetica Designed to Boost Your Memory Helvetica is so 2011. It's all about Sans Forgetica now.	Es Devlin to Design Interactive Poem Pavilion for Dubai Expo 2020 British set designer Es Devlin has been chosen to create the UK Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, with a performative structure that will use artificial intelligence to write poems.	Karen Cheng, Kevin Larson: Truthiness and Information Graphics Readers are more likely to believe the content of text when the layout and text quality is easy to understand.
What Makes a Truly Good Sans Serif? Oslo’s Good Type hints it might be flexibility, versatility + charity	A “Plain” Typeface Designed to Fit National Geographic’s Shifting Identity Klim designed Geograph to live across the media company’s magazine, TV channel, and website.	Adobe is Reviving the Stunning Lost Fonts of the Bauhaus The project is part of an Adobe initiative called Hidden Treasures that resurfaces design gems from the past in Adobe products–previously, the company recreated the paintbrushes used by painter Edv
The Type Writer: Typography of Wayfinding Apps With digital advancements determining the future of wayfinding apps, Bruno Maag explores the typography journey through transport and technology.	Airbnb’s New Typeface Is a Case Study In Unified, Accessible Design Named Cereal, the font has big ambitions from its scrappy beginnings.	Are Two Spaces Better Than One? A response to new research.
This New Typeface Merges Braille You Can Touch With Letters You Can See If anyone could read braille, maybe it would be more common for those who need it.	Should the terms font and typeface be used interchangeably? What do these terms mean anyway? The most simple explanation is: a typeface is what you see, a font is what you use.	The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces An attempt to building a font database with opentype.js
How Pentagram’s Michael Bierut Picks A Typeface Once “typographically promiscuous,” Bierut has a simple method for selecting typefaces–as detailed in this exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book “Now You See It and Other Essays on Design."	How Futura Became the Most Ripped-Off Typeface in History Companies from Best Buy to Forever 21 use Futura, but probably not the original. That’s because it has been endlessly reimagined, imitated, and blatantly ripped off.	Text Me: How We Live in Language Conceived and curated by designer, podcaster, and brand strategist Debbie Millman, this exhibition is an attempt to organize, express, translate and reflect both how we live in language and ho
How You Can Tell If You Are An Old Fogey Designer Many—and you know who you are—are extraodinarily creative and active in the later ages, sometimes doing the best work of your lives.	The myth of Kramer-Grotesk Who really made the first design of Futura?	Massimo Vignelli: a Curbed primer Vignelli died in 2014, but his extensive body of work continues to fuel a passion in designers and design enthusiasts.
How Apple Helped Democratize Typography in the 90's In 1989, Apple hired Thomas Rickner to do something revolutionary: put print-quality typefaces on every computer.	How to measure typographic accessibility: Infographic The infographic outlines some of the main features to look out for if you’re selecting an accessible font.	Google, Apple, Adobe, And Microsoft Are Quietly Developing A New Type Of Font What are variable fonts, and why are some of the biggest tech companies on the planet throwing their weight behind them?
Name That Font! And Hire This Student. Spector is a handheld device that can identify the typeface and colors from physical objects, created by Fiona O'Leary for her graduation project at Royal College of Art.	Sign Size Design Review of TTM Signs Research has demonstrated that a significant number of drivers do not understand some roadwork related traffic signs, indicating lane clo	FHWA Does Turnaround on Clearview The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has reversed its position on Clearview, the highway font designed to improve legibility for aging drivers.
Typography of Numbers A fun take on numerical typography, from H&Co.	Typographic Bus Shelter An obvious solution perhaps, but it looks fun to use.	Font Men: Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones Font Men is a short, behind-the-scenes video of the work of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.

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