Archive for the 'typography' Category
"Seravek is a linear sans serif designed for identity, editorial and information design. Five weights spanning Bold to Extra Light with italics and small caps allow for a range of applications both typographic and utilitarian in nature."
"FontBook is a type encyclopedia with an abundance of carefully researched notes on type designers, year of publication, similar fonts, and additional language versions."
74 page (!) specimen for National by Kris Sowersby.
Links to sites useful to designers.
"Scanned from hallfplate glass negatives found in anabandoned Post Ofice warehouse, the envelopes bear the stamp 'London Press Bureau'.
The photos were taken in the mid sixties."
"Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain" - 1864
Archive of type-related tips and tutorials.
Overview of different styles of lettering for different characters' speech in Pogo.
One-stop shopping for open source type, suitable for @use in css3.
Exhaustive, loving, history of New York City subway signage, only incidentally about Helvetica.
Good resource for the Bringhurst-y web designer.
Photos of often haphazard type and lettering.
Good illustrated survey of the history of western lettering and type, from Rome to the early 20th century (not in french).
"The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde."
A porting of Robert Bringhurst's indispensable reference and guide to typography for use with CSS and (X)HTML. Sporadically updated, but worth reading.
Adobe's website about the minutiae of typography.
Open source alternative to Fontlab. Looks like it only runs under X11 on the Mac though, which: poop.
Some really nice type, in a really irritating interface. Some of these are apparently downloadable as pdfs.
