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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
Short Off Book Documentary on Typography
The documentary features type designers Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Pentagram’s Paula Scher and Eddie Opara, and infographic designers Julia Vakser and…Read more
Holy Onomatopoeia, What A Bat-collection!
Fan site Batmania collects the onomatopoeia from the word overlays used in the 1960s cult television series Batman.…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
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