Did you hear? Comma and Period got married. Really? Comma’s a great guy, but who’s Period? Some moody chick he picked up at the Crossbar a year ago. I bet she’s perfect for him. Yep, she’s always finishing his sentences. This website collects typographic jokes.You can submit your own and rate the presented jokes. via [...]
Safari and Internet Explorer already support it*. Firefox and Opera will get it soon: Downloadable webfonts. Here is a collection of 10 great headline fonts you can embed in you website free of charge … Tweet
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When I first saw a digital version of the Polish traffic typeface, I though I must have gotten a really bad digitization. It had characters which were obviously cut off by mistake … Tweet
Firefox 3 will be the first major browser with support for kerning and automatic ligatures. I tested the Firefox 3 release canditate and I have to say, it’s not perfect yet. But first the good news: Kerning Kerning is an important feature in print typography but for most of the (rather small) texts we read [...]
Which typeface could I use for the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Maybe Emigre’s Brothers? Designing a logo for the “Hotel Broadway”? Let’s try the font Broadway! Yes, that’s certainly a “Lack of typographic Imagination”! Stephen Coles (typographica.org) and Ivo Gabrowitsch (fontwerk.com) created the Flickr group LTypI to collect these hilarious font choices. Tweet
The official traffic typeface in Germany is called DIN 1451 and has a very long history … Tweet
Opentype.info is the weblog of the German designer and author Ralf Herrmann. Currently, this weblog is about topics such as typography, webfonts, signage, wayfinding and spatial cognition.