Posts by Yves Peters

 

Interview in Slanted #11 – Monospace, Typewriter

The current issue #11 of German typography magazine Slanted – Monospace, Typewriter focuses on fixed-width faces, and features an interview with yours truly.

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ScreenFonts: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Last Airbender, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Inception, Life During Wartime

My oh my, these Font Of The Day posts didn’t look so impressive, but they sure put a dent in my publishing schedule. I hope you managed to enjoy a cool 20% off on some FontFonts. Yesterday morning my favourite radio station left their summer programmes behind and now they are back on their regular [...]

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Celebrating 20 Years of FontShop With Jürgen Siebert

The fourth in a series of interviews with people that played a key role in twenty years of FontShop.

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FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special

I know I still owe you July’s ScreenFonts – please bear with me a little longer, it’s in the works. I have been busy helping out with FontFont’s current anniversary promotion, writing up posts for FontShop Blog. To celebrate 20 years, FontFont is offering 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days.

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TypeCon2010: Babel Officially Opens Tonight

This week the typographic world congregates in Los Angeles, as TypeCon2010: Babel takes over the City of the Angels. The Society of Typographic Aficionados presents its annual letterfest, featuring more than 70 of the brightest names in type and design, including: Akira Kobayashi, Doyald Young, Jill Bell, Teri Kahan, Andrew Byrom, Sean Adams, Richard Kegler, [...]

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“L’Eau et Les Rêves”, A Typographic Fountain In Vence

Another piece of typographic environmental art we saw on our vacation was L’eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams), a “miroir d’eau” (best translated as “water mirror”) in Vence, the town we stayed in. I first noticed the new public sculpture in 2007, the last time we were in Vence. It is a long rectangular [...]

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Nomade, A Man of Letters Looking Out Over The Mediterranean

I’m back from our family vacation since Monday night. Of course, with my “condition” I never really am on vacation. Several typographic and type-related things caught my eye in the two weeks we spent at the Côte d’Azur (or French Riviera if you prefer), sparking ideas for possible topics on The FontFeed. Without a doubt [...]

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