Ralf Herrmann:
Wayfinding & Typography

Type Specimen is a free iPad app to visually browse the fonts of the Czech Suitcase Type Foundry. It can be used to select fonts for projects – be it magazine design, corporate identity design, web applications, or book typesetting. Type Specimen allows you to categorize individual fonts, make comparisons, or see details of specific glyphs.

With all this hype around the iPad, people keep asking if the iPad supports webfonts. The good news is: Yes, it does. The bad news: the iPad runs Mobile Safari and in contrast to the standard version of Safari only SVG fonts are supported.

Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X. Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.

For many years professional graphic designers are used to replace the Helvetica system fonts on the Mac OS with a Type1 version. But with Leopard this seems to be impossible. Whenever you delete the fonts, they will be reinstalled after you reboot the system and you will get a lot of annoying font conflicts. I [...]

In Panther und Tiger lagen die Font-Caches noch in den Librarys von System und Computer. In Leopard hat nun jeder Benutzer einen eigenen Font-Cache. Die gängigen Tools, wie etwa der Linotype Fontexplorer, kennen diese Position noch nicht und können den Cache daher nicht löschen. Wer den Cache manuell löschen will, muss zunächst einmal die Anzeige [...]