Archive for the 'typography' Category

I love that blackletter.

Every one of these is incredible.

Beautiful manual for the Olivetti Lettera 22. Especially like the last graphic, indicating which fingers use which keys.

Collaborative graphic collection of found type and design snippets.

Flickr set of the some items from the Herb Lubalin archive at Cooper Union.

Amost endlessly amusing. Personal fave: "Garamond, Wayward Son."

"Tisa is a typeface created while studing in the MA Typeface Design course at the University of Reading. The typeface was primarily created for use in various magazines that are either printed by web-fed offset or gravure printing techniques. Nevertheless, the typeface can also be successfully used in other printed media, such as newspapers, annual reports etc."

"Through its versatile character traits Haptic gains visual warmth and sympathy, but retains its readability nonetheless."

"Dederon super family is a complex package of serif and sans serif fonts based on common construction principles, with harmonic compliance of easily distinguishable open shapes providing effortless reading."