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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.
Portrait of Matthew Carter, Type Laminitis
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.
Read moreGhost Typeface In ProSieben Television Movie Der Seewolf
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”.
Read more1973 Newspapers Predict Future of Type in Dexter
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 [...]
Read moreSuitcase Fusion 2 Promo Not So Brave
The last thing you want in a promo for font management software is a missing font.
Read moreLack of Typographic Imagination: Stating The Obvious
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.
Read moreFriday the 13th Typodisasters
A gallery of cringe-worthy typo or typographic blunders shot by the Unzipped readers.
Read moreRelated Posts
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- A few bits of early reaction to the FontFeed relaunch from some of our most beloved bloggers.…Read more
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- Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones’s presentation “Better Living Through Typography” from TYPO Berlin 2004 “Schrift” has now also been added…Read more
- Minor Mishap
- Oops. Something broke, but we’re fixing it.…Read more
- The New York Times Turkish Edition
- Istanbul-based motion graphics studio Imago New Media produced a one minute advertisement for the launch of Turkish Edition of The…Read more
- Friday the 13th Typodisasters
- A gallery of cringe-worthy typo or typographic blunders shot by the Unzipped readers.…Read more

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