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05/12/2014

Awesome!

Celebrating Google’s Material Design, in a material form.

Wow, so much for this happy partnership. This is why you sign everything. You would think people who make typefaces for ...
17/01/2014

Wow, so much for this happy partnership. This is why you sign everything. You would think people who make typefaces for a living would know that.

Hoefler & Frere-Jones, the preeminent digital type foundry, has broken out into civil war. Type designer Tobias Frere-Jones claims he has been cheated out of his half of the company by his business partner, Jonathan Hoefler. In a blistering lawsuit filed today in New York City, Frere-Jones says he w...

Happy New Year! This time of year people make crazy hard resolutions like losing 472,128,192 lbs, or traveling the world...
03/01/2014

Happy New Year! This time of year people make crazy hard resolutions like losing 472,128,192 lbs, or traveling the world, or making a new blog post every week. I plan on doing one of those and succeeding about half the time :) In the meantime, read about the crossbar in typography!

Now that the website is back up (happy New Year to you as well support staff thanks for the hard work), I wanted to round the year out on a small, but important aspect of typography — crossbars. A crossbar is usually defined as the horizontal stroke of the letters A and H. Sometimes, the …

Old-style or Lining? Find out what type of numerals to use with http://www.6picas.com/numerals/
18/12/2013

Old-style or Lining? Find out what type of numerals to use with http://www.6picas.com/numerals/

It’s been too long! But today, we will be talking about numerals and the two different types of numerals. The two types are called by many different names, but most commonly known as Lining and Old-Style numerals. Lining Numerals Lining numerals, also known as tabular, ranging, or uppercase numeral...

Interested in learning more about typography? Today's post features strokes and stems. So if you gotta have yourself som...
19/10/2013

Interested in learning more about typography? Today's post features strokes and stems. So if you gotta have yourself some strokes n' stems, check it out!

Strokes n’ stems, strokes n’ stems, gotta have me some strokes n’ stems. In my type that is… And that is what we will be talking about today. Let us start off talking about stems. Stem In typography, a stem is a vertical, full-length stroke in upright characters (ie. L, H, f, l , h,P, […]

An typographical work by user no-preview that plays on type weights.
15/10/2013

An typographical work by user no-preview that plays on type weights.

- Light is great, light is mysterious, light is useful. After all, they say everything started with light. When any revolution has happened in the history of science, art or any other field, light ...

Cool Stop Motion Video. Amazing Artwork.
15/10/2013

Cool Stop Motion Video. Amazing Artwork.

トクマルシューゴ 5thアルバム『In Focus?』より「Katachi」ミュージック・ビデオ http://p-vine.jp/music/4171 MV制作：Kijek/Adamski ビデオの中の全ての「カタチ」は、良いものも悪いものも含む私たちの記憶の流れを反映しています。記憶が過去を不完全に再構築して...

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