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Typophile Film Fest 5: Call For Entries
Typophile has issued an open Call For Entries for the fifth edition of Typophile Film Fest. The film festival is wide open to anything relevant to typography, design history, and/or type design.
Read moreBirkhäuser Publishes The Complete Works of Adrian Frutiger
There is little doubt that this is the one. Arguably the most important type-related book of the decade has been released: “Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces. The Complete Works”.
Read morePantone Selects Colour of the Year for 2009
PANTONE® 14-0848 Mimosa, a warm, engaging yellow, embodies hopefulness and reassurance in a climate of change.
Read moreFontShop Launches FontShuffle App For iPhone/iPod Touch
FontShuffle 1.0, FontShop’s new application for iPhone and iPod Touch, is the world’s fastest source of typographic inspiration. Combining the knowledge of the analogue world with new advanced possibilities of the digital mobile world, it offers new ways of finding and comparing typefaces, and of composing text samples.
Read moreGünter Gerhard Lange Passes Away at 87
Tuesday morning, December 2nd, 2008, Günter Gerhard Lange passed away in Munich, aged 87. Lange was one of the important type designers and typographers of the 20th century.
Read moreTypographic Christmas Presents
With Christmas now officially less than a month away it is time to look around for some presents for yourself or your type-lovin’ partner, friend, or relative. These few items are a start, but feel free to add suggestions to our little compilation.
Read moreNYU Researchers Discover Defining Factor for Legibility
Character size, measure, typeface … these are all generally accepted as being factors that influence legibility. Yet the study “The uncrowded window of object recognition” by New York University neuro-scientists Denis G. Pelli & Katharine A. Tillman published in scientific journal Nature Neuroscience advances the thesis that character spacing is the defining factor for legibility.
Read moreNew Microsite For FF Trixie OT
Earlier this week a brand new website entirely dedicated to a single typeface family went live. Erik van Blokland’s FF Trixie OT – a major upgrade of the seminal rough typewriter typeface – can be accessed on trixiefont.com. After metaserif.com this is the second microsite published by FontShop San Francisco. I used the occasion to […]
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