How many fonts are installed on your computer? A hundred? A thousand? Simply knowing the differences between all these options is a daunting enough prospect, much less knowing which one is the "right" choice for a design project. Dan ...READ»
Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) has opened a nice little exhibit sure to draw high-minded type aficionados and snotty-nosed kindergarteners in equal measure: It's a showcase of each letter of the alphabet, diced, dyed, ...READ»
Playtype.com, one of Europe’s preeminent online font foundries, has opened a gorgeous brick-and-mortar shop in Copenhagen dedicated to flogging digital typefaces.
Customers can walk in off the street and buy fonts loaded on USBs ...READ»
Eager to refresh one of America’s most beloved board games -- until this shameful moment in history, anyway -- a BYU design student recently gave Scrabble the high-design treatment: He turned it into a typographic orgy.
A-1 ...READ»
Next month, the Museum of Modern Art will showcase nearly two dozen digital typefaces freshly acquired for the permanent collection, signaling both the consecration of digital type and the canonization of typography as a design ...READ»
The way it felt to read a book 400 years ago is almost gone today, and for more than reasons than the obvious ones. The swoops and rhythms of ancient typography have been all but lost in an age of modern digital fonts and utilitarian ...READ»
Kids make snowmen, type geeks make... snow type!
The fluffy, frigid letters you see here are the work of Veronica Falsen Hiis, an Oslo designer, who took to the streets with her friend Synne Toften one wintry Nordic day and ...READ»
If you've ever been young and alone in a foreign country, we're betting you'll melt after watching "Live The Language," a series of videos which combine exquisite typography and playful visuals to cinematically capture the joy (and ...READ»
Amid all the hue and cry over the new NBC Universal corporate logo, there are two voices actually worth listening to -- those of Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, the designers of NBC’s beloved peacock. “I think the new one is ...READ»
Online, everyone’s a design critic. We don’t have to like it. But we can’t avoid it. Which makes Fonts in Use, a new site by designers Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles, and Nick Sherman, a refreshing addition to the blogosphere: It ...READ»
Pop quiz: Have you ever used Comic Sans for a.) a resume b.) a letter of condolence or c.) anything other than a kid’s party invite or a really funny talk balloon or d.) a petulant midnight letter to your team's fans on the ...READ»
Where would movies be without Jean-Luc Godard? The French director blew the lid off of stuffy international cinema in the 1960s with classics like Breathless, Band of Outsiders, and Contempt. Today, a band of type designers in the ...READ»
Ken Perlin, computer scientist and director of NYU's Games for Learning Institute, had a problem: Microsoft Word's default fonts turned into illegible mush at tiny sizes. So he took it upon himself to design a typeface of his own that ...READ»
FontShop has compiled their Top Ten Typefaces of 2007.
while these are all fine specimens, i have seen better.
although, i don't have time right now to dig up a useful link.READ»
