Fonts in Use
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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.
ScreenFonts: The Social Network, Let Me In, Secretariat, Red, Monsters
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreMy Type of Music: Manic Street Preachers, Soundgarden, Tricky, Lil’ Wayne, Kings Of Leon
An overview of covers of recently released albums.
Read moreAnimated Typeface For RCA 2010 Animation Showreel
In collaboration with fellow RCA graduate Mark El-Khatib, Matthias Hoegg developed an animated typeface for the DVD titles.
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 moreLaserkraft 3D Explain Lyrics With Dingbats
The music video for “Nein Mann” by German electro house project Laserkraft 3D features hand lettering and dingbats that visualise the lyrics.
Read moreScreenFonts: Machete, The American, Going The Distance, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Buried
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreMy Type of Music: Interpol, Underworld, Grinderman, Linkin Park, Mark Ronson, John Legend & The Roots, Neil Young
An overview of covers of recently released albums.
Read moreVow to Vowels: The Sidewalk Experiences My First Earthquake
The typographic music video for “Vow to Vowels” by California-based indie rock band My First Earthquake was shot entirely on an iPhone.
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Specimens are nice, but we love to catch a typeface in the wild, where it can truly show how it performs in the real world.
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Specimens are nice, but we love to catch a typeface in the wild, where it can truly show how it performs in the real world.