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 […]