Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog

Movie about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Ralf Herrmann.

The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museums days are numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve [...]

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Call for Papers: Wayfinding and Legibility

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by Ralf Herrmann.

The next issue of my design magazine TypoJournal will focus on wayfinding, signage, reading and legibility. If you know or if you are working on interesting projects, articles, pictures, books, … that deal with these topics please contact me or leave a comment to this blog entry.
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Wayfinding observations: Landmarks and cardinal directions

Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

When we come to a new city we build a cognitve map to represent this city in our minds. Unless you have photographic memory such cognitve maps work differently from topographic maps. They don’t consist of exact representations and distances, but are driven by landmarks and the paths that connect them. A landmark can be [...]

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Designing the ultimate wayfinding typeface

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Over the last couple of years I have researched the design and use of typefaces used for signage, especially road signage.
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Why webfont services are the future of fonts on the web

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

The debate about webfonts just reached its peak at a panel discussion on this year’s TypeCon conference. (You can listen to the 2 hours audio at Typographica and read summaries at i love typography and NiceWebType.) The discussion left a lot of people puzzled about how the future of fonts on the web might look like. Here [...]

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The Potential of Web Typography

Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Firefox 3.5 with support for webfonts is out. This demo page by Ian Lynam & Craig Mod shows how commercial webfonts can enrich a website. The demo page uses subsetted versions of fonts from the Dutch foundry Underware and “is intended to show what will be possible once foundries revise their EULAs allowing for high-quality [...]

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Folder Type

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X.

Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.
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Sneak Peek: @font-face in Opera 10

Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

The team of Opera was actually one of the first ones which worked on an @font-face implementation for linked TrueType/OpenType fonts. But this feature never made it in any of the final released. In Opera 10 it should finally happen and you can try it yourself with the public beta. Here is a short test [...]

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Webfonts tweets

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Now you can also follow me on twitter. I will use this account mainly for comments and discussions about webfonts.
http://twitter.com/opentype
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Beautiful webfonts demo

Posted on 25. Mai, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Tim Brown from nicewebtype.com designed a beatiful webfonts demo page using Graublau Sans Web. If you use a browser capable of linking TrueType/OpenType fonts try the demo page – otherwise take a look at the screenshot.
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