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Graublau Slab Pro released
Graublau Slab is the latest addition to the popular Graublau type family designed by the Berlin-based type designer Georg Seifert. Since its release in 2008, the Graublau Sans Pro typeface has been a popular choice for corporate designs, books, magazines, websites and much more. With Graublau Slab Pro, the type family becomes even more versatile. With [...]
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Creating web text that automatically scales to the width of its parent element
You might have noticed, that in my current blog layout all lines of the headline always perfectly match the width of the blog layout, even if the size of the browser window is changed. In case you are wondering, here is how this was achieved …
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Mike Parker—Type is my Life
An emotional interview with the typographer and type designer Mike Parker about his life and the people he worked with. Thanks to the tdc for making this video!
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Download a free demo of Wayfinding Sans
You may have already read about the story behind the Wayfinding Sans typeface on I Love Typography and you might have seen the empirical study that proved its outstanding legibility. But now you can also try the typeface free of charge. Just pay with a tweet or Facebook post. (Alternatively there is also a download for a small nominal [...]
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IndyFont—Generating a logo font directly in InDesign
In a running text in InDesign you could always dump any kind of vector or bitmap images. But handling these objects can be really annoying, since they cannot be edited along with the text. It’s just an object frame which flows with the text. If you want a graphic (like a logo or pictogram) to [...]
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silenc — The Silent Letters
Silenc is a tangible visualization designed by the interaction design students Manas Karambelkar, Momo Miyazaki and Kenneth A. Robertsen that highlights the silent letters that occur in the Danish, English and French languages. A silent letter is a letter that appears in a particular word, but does not correspond to any sound in the word’s pronunciation.
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Reading Letters — Interview with Sofie Beier about legibility and her new book
Sofie Beier from Denmark is an assistant professor employed at the School of Design under The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London. Her research focuses on typeface legibility, aiming at a better understanding of how different typefaces and letter shapes can influence the reading process. Her new book “Reading [...]
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Graublau Sans Web updated
In April of 2008, shortly after Apple released Safari 3.1 with webfont support, we announced the free download of Graublau Sans Web—one of the first professional webfonts specifically released for @font-face use on websites. At this time, the download kit only included two OpenType fonts, which could be used in Safari. Our goal was to [...]
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Brightwork — The design of car emblems (video)
In this talk from Creative Morning Berlin, Stephen Coles, the creator of chromeography.com talks about the design of car logos. From the connected mid-century script logos of Chevrolet & Cadillac to the boring plastic logos of today’s cars. Enjoy! (You might jump to 6:00 where the actual presentation starts.) Related Links: http://chromeography.com Chromeography Flickr Group [...]
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EPILOGUE: the future of print
This documentary is a humble exploration of the world of print, as it scratches the surface of its future. I consider this a work in progress. It is built upon interviews with individuals who are active in the Toronto print community and questions whether or not they expect to see the disappearance of the physical [...]
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Infographic: Visual Guide to Typefaces used on European Road Signs
I started to design this infographic for a conference talk about European road signage typefaces, but I thought this might also be useful to share with everyone.
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Pop-up Alphabet in Univers 65 Bold
The results of an assignment at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design in Pittsburgh. Pop-up Alphabet in Univers 65 Bold from CMU Design on Vimeo.
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Interview with Type Designer Sebastian Nagel
Sebastian Nagel (*1981) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg in Austria and is currently working as graphic and type designer. At fonts.info he has released typefaces such as Iwan Reschniev and Tierra Nueva, but he also has a lot of interesting typefaces still in the desk drawer. Don’t miss you chance [...]
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Typography in Iceland
Looking forward to the release of that documentary …
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Wayfinding Sans Pro released
After 6 years, I am happy to announce, that Wayfinding Sans Pro has now been released. You can read all about the development of this typeface in this article on I Love Typography: The Design of a Signage Typeface. Also check out the PDF specimen for more information. Wayfinding Sans Pro is available at fonts.info [...]
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Does a large x-height make fonts more legible?
It seems to be common knowledge among graphic designers: When you need a legible font, pick one with a large x-height! Here are Bernhard Modern (left) and Adobe Garamond (right) set at the same cap height: Adobe Garamond is certainly more legible, isn’t it? And this is even more important for signage. So here is [...]
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Jessica Hische: Uniting Nerds through Typography
“Why Type Designers and Web Designers are Incredibly Similar and Should Really Get a Room Already.” (Webstock ’12)
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Nadine Roßa about the Lowercase Sharp S (ß)
In this 20-minute talk at Creative Mornings in Berlin Nadine Roßa talks about her favorite letter: the German ß.
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