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.
Wimbledon Champions Explode Into Words
A tweet by type designer Nadine Chahine made me discover a superb typographic promo by BBC for its Wimbledon 2012 coverage. The 40-second launch trailer created by Red Bee Media shows some of the top male and female tennis players performing their signature shots. Their bodies suddenly are rendered in words describing their characteristics, playing [...]
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ScreenFonts: The Cabin In The Woods, The Lucky One, The Raven, Sound Of My Voice
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreAnimated Trailer for ISType Conference
Ampersand wasn’t the only type conference this past weekend. From June 15 to 18 a sizable part of the type world was in Istanbul, Turkey for the second ISType (Istanbul Type Seminars). This lecture and workshop series conceived by typographers / designers / educators Onur Yazıcıgil (Sabancı University) and Alessandro Segalini (Izmir University of Economics) is devoted to encouraging [...]
Read moreUsing OpenType on the Web
With Ampersand less than a week away, it’ll be no time before we begin to see type looking a little better on the web. Designers making smarter use of webfonts gets us a long way, but a persistent hurdle to harnessing web typography’s potential has been browser support. Back in April, one development we cheered [...]
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Student Project Marries Graphic Design With Handcraft
I Could Have Done This… documents Briar Mark’s creation of a hand-stitched poster.
Read moreHoly Onomatopoeia, What A Bat-collection!
Fan site Batmania collects the onomatopoeia from the word overlays used in the 1960s cult television series Batman.
Read moreLooking For Images Of Letterpress Script Faces
I needed extra visual material for “From Metal Scripts to Digital Writing”, my presentation at TYPO Berlin 2012 “Sustain”.
Read moreScrabble Typography Limited Edition
The A-1 Scrabble Typography Edition is a beautiful limited edition of the timeless letter board game.
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News
The latest in the world of typography, lettering, and type design.
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Handpicked Typefaces
Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
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Type Tips
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
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Fonts in Use
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.
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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