Ralf Herrmann:
Wayfinding & Typography

Do you know your VAG from your Bembo? Play the font game …

The Periodic Table of Typefaces presents 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.  The selection is based on several font rankings including our Top 100 fonts from FontShop Germany where I was part of the jury.  via L’Aureola

As part of the new brand identity of the Dutch government Peter Verheul designed a custom typeface for all forms of visual communications. Read about it in Sander Baumann’s weblog.

An interview with František Štorm, type designer and founder of the Storm Type Foundry in Prague:

In 1930 Jan Tschichold describes a new typeface in the publication “Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandels”, that “can be drawn by everyone without typographic knowledge”.

You can’t get an OpenType version of those fonts. They don’t have kerning and the character set is very limited. HandMadeFonts from Estonia are something special.

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 …