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My Type of Music
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover and a band by its album art.
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ScreenFonts
A typographic look at today’s movie posters and film titles. (a.k.a. Characters on The Silver Screen)
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Lovely Lettering
Typography is made with type, but some of the best letters are made one at a time, by hand.
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Oops!
A light-hearted repository of amusing typos and typographic mishaps.
YouTube Video Hilariously Parodies Vendor/Client Relationship
This afternoon Allison Dhondt – sales and customer relations at FontShop BeNeLux, and responsible for their excellent Twitter account – pointed me to a very witty 2009 YouTube video by Scofield Editorial, Inc.. The Vendor Client relationship (in real world situations) takes all too familiar situations from the daily life of graphic designers, web designers, type designers, [...]
Read moreIf Movies Had Opening Titles With Crappy Fonts…
As you may very well know I often rail against poor typographic choices for movie posters and credit title sequences. However it could be even worse, and after seeing the remix video If Movies Had Crappy Fonts I feel like such a snob. Jest – the latest website under the CollegeHumor Media umbrella – asks if using [...]
Read moreIntentional Mistake Due To Wrong Assumptions
After writing about Fenstern Zeichen, Herbert Marker’s delightful gallery of Austrian shop signs, it pains me to show you this miserable failure for contrast. This sign which I discovered only recently graces the facade of a restaurant/bar on the Friday Market in Gent, my home town. When walking around the city, I have been confronted [...]
Read moreMac OS X 10.6.7 Update Causes Problems With OpenType Fonts
The issues in Mac OS X 10.6.7 occur with PostScript-flavoured OpenType fonts, and concern PDF files and printing.
Read moreHatys Harrete And Scrunckiesan
My first live encounter with Engrish comes from the packaging of a toy our youngest daughter Nona won at the fair.
Read morePVP On Helvetica, The Movie
Scott R. Kurtz published the second type-centric strip in his webcomic PVP.
Read moreFrench Anti-Piracy Organisation Hadopi Uses Pirated Font In Own Logo
This is the epic FAIL story of the agency in charge of enforcing France’s new anti-piracy legislation using a pirated proprietary font in its very own logo.
Read moreHow We Built Britain… With Arial!?
The opening sequence for “How We Built Britain”, the landmark BBC One show that aired over June and July 2007, features virtual letter-shaped buildings.
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