Dexter

Nov.18.08

1973 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 [...]

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Mark Simonson’s Changeling Stars In Star Trek
Changeling is the screen font on the monitor displays of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the new Star Trek movie.…Read more
In Use: More Packaging Fonts
Part two in our series on the typography of packaging is the result of a trip to Target®. Several of…Read more
Type Week On Eye Magazine Blog
To celebrate the new issue 71 of the printed Eye magazine, Eye is having its first-ever Type Week on the…Read more
Yes I Think I Can Dance
On Monday June 28th I participated in the pre-jury audition for the Belgian/Dutch version of So You Think You Can…Read more
In Use: LCD for 24
Logan Ingalls’ 24 Season Six countdown makes use of the familiar typographic star of the hit TV show 24: LCD.…Read more