Typography Links
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Ian Cowley of cartridgesave.co.uk presents a guide of Typography Resources for Printing. |
Some 25,000 resin cubes make up a gorgeously analog sign system at the National Library of Luxembourg. |
Curated by Yuan Wang |
The act was intended to honor protesters who had peacefully assembled earlier this week. |
A sampling of work and commentary by some of the type aficionados who have been featured in the pages of Communication Arts. |
Welcome to our new column that turns an eye on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing everywhere |
The first word of this sentence is a little different than the rest — it begins with a capital letter. |
More designers + illustrators are moving to the Indian city—here’s what your life might look like if you joined them. |
USWDS 2.0 adds built-in support for custom typefaces, and sometimes you need one that’s simple, neutral, and isn’t Helvetica. |
Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces on the planet. Here’s why Monotype decided to remake it. |
The author of a new dictionary of typefaces explains the origins of some of the best-known type–and their lesser-known namesakes. |
The type, which features rounded edges carved into wood in all caps, has become an icon of the National Parks system. |
Helvetica is so 2011. It's all about Sans Forgetica now. |
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. |
Readers are more likely to believe the content of text when the layout and text quality is easy to understand. |
Oslo’s Good Type hints it might be flexibility, versatility + charity |
Klim designed Geograph to live across the media company’s magazine, TV channel, and website. |
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 |
With digital advancements determining the future of wayfinding apps, Bruno Maag explores the typography journey through transport and technology. |
Named Cereal, the font has big ambitions from its scrappy beginnings. |
A response to new research. |
If anyone could read braille, maybe it would be more common for those who need it. |
What do these terms mean anyway? The most simple explanation is: a typeface is what you see, a font is what you use. |
An attempt to building a font database with opentype.js |
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." |
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. |
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 |
Many—and you know who you are—are extraodinarily creative and active in the later ages, sometimes doing the best work of your lives. |
Who really made the first design of Futura? |
Vignelli died in 2014, but his extensive body of work continues to fuel a passion in designers and design enthusiasts. |
In 1989, Apple hired Thomas Rickner to do something revolutionary: put print-quality typefaces on every computer. |
The infographic outlines some of the main features to look out for if you’re selecting an accessible font. |
What are variable fonts, and why are some of the biggest tech companies on the planet throwing their weight behind them? |
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. |
Research has demonstrated that a significant number of drivers do not understand some roadwork related traffic signs, indicating lane clo |
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has reversed its position on Clearview, the highway font designed to improve legibility for aging drivers. |
A fun take on numerical typography, from H&Co. |
An obvious solution perhaps, but it looks fun to use. |
Font Men is a short, behind-the-scenes video of the work of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones. |