After more than ten years of pub­lish­ing PvP fea­tures its very first typography-​related strip.

The Wash­ing­ton Post’s por­trait of Matthew Carter made its way to a blog by means a little detour through trans­la­tion soft­wares, with hilar­i­ous results.

Verena Ger­lach obvi­ously was paying atten­tion while watch­ing the trailer to the ProSieben tele­vi­sion movie in two parts “Der See­wolf”, an adap­ta­tion of Jack London’s 1904 novel. She noticed a glar­ing anachro­nism in the let­ter­ing on the schooner “Ghost”.

One of the most enter­tain­ing con­tin­u­ing series about typog­ra­phy on the inter­webs is Mark Simon­son’s Type­cast­ing: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typog­ra­phy in Movies. Orig­i­nally a single overview of typo­graph­i­cal anachro­nisms in movies, it spawned the follow up series Son of Type­cast­ing. What Mark does is research the use of period typog­ra­phy in movies […]

Caution! Falling counters!

The last thing you want in a promo for font man­age­ment soft­ware is a miss­ing font.

The Flickr group LTypI: Lack of Typo­graphic Imag­i­na­tion col­lects pic­tures of logos where the name – or parts of the name – is derived from the type­face used to set the logo in.

In West­ern folk­lore, today – Friday the 13th – is con­sid­ered a day of bad luck. With bad luck loom­ing, acci­dents tend to happen. I’m pretty sure most of us know at least one cringe-​worthy typo or typo­graphic blun­der in our neigh­bour­hood. You know, the shop sign with the upside down ‘E’, mis­placed counter in […]