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.
Version 1.5 Improves Typography in iBooks on iPad and iPhone
In version 1.5 the font selection for Apple’s e-book application iBooks is vastly improved with four new typefaces.
Read moreGestalten.tv Interviews Ken Barber
Ken Barber talks about the necessity of specialization and the fine lines between lettering, typography, and type design.
Read moreMy Type of Music: Tori Amos, Superheavy, Roots Manuva, Plaid, Mastodon
An overview of covers of recently released albums.
Read moreScreenFonts: Blackthorn, Martha Marcy May Marlene, In Time, The Rum Diary, Puss In Boots
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreBook Trailer For “You Are Not So Smart” In Animated Typography
Why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction and 46 other ways you are deluding yourself.
Read moreMy Type of Music: Grace Jones, Primus, The Kooks, Ladytron, Steve Reich
An overview of covers of recently released albums.
Read moreFrench Advertising Alphabets From 1946
“100 Alphabets Publicitaires” is a compendium with 100 lettering style examples for commercial artists and letterers.
Read moreScreenFonts: A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, Contagion, Drive, Machine Gun Preacher
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
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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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Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
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.