Ralf Herrmann: Wayfinding & Typography |

2011/08/11

The Beauty of Road Signs

Usually, when I do my road trips to take pictures of road sigs for my collection, I am most interested in, how these signs look from the driver’s point of view. But now and then I also get out of the car and take some more interesting photos. Here are some selected images from the [...]

2011/08/03

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How to draw a Capital Sharp S

In a previous article I already explained the need for an uppercase counterpart for the German lowercase letter ß. At AtypI 2011 I talked about this topic again. Here you can watch a screencast of my presentation: Unfortunately I didn’t had time to discuss the possible shapes of this character in this talk. So I [...]

2011/08/01

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What makes letters legible?

In the last articles of this series we have established the relevant terms of legibility and learned what we know about the reading of words in the latin script. Now we move on to the legibility of letters itself. What makes the letter of one typeface more legible than the one from another typeface? Is [...]

2011/07/31

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The lost art of large-scale ad painting

Concept: Mother NY; Production Co: Mekanism; Director/DP/Editor: Malcolm Murray; Music by The Album Leaf; Painters: Colossal Media/Sky High Murals/Bob Middleton; Presented by Stella Artois

2011/07/29

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Introducing the Typecast app

Typecast by FRONT is a tool for creating your CSS code with webfonts directly in the browser with a true WYSIWYG view.

2011/07/22

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Walbaum Type Specimen in high resolution

The type designer Justus Erich Walbaum was born in 1768 and started his career in a spice shop. His skill of making baking pans lead him to engrave steel plates for printing music books and later he started to cut letters. Around 1800 he designed the serif typeface Walbaum Antiqua and the corresponding italics (Walbaum Kursiv) [...]

2011/06/28

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A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

Rajesh Rao is fascinated by “the mother of all crossword puzzles”: How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization. Video does’t show up? Watch it at TED.