Ralf Herrmann: Wayfinding & Typography |

2011/02/24

iPad font viewer Type Specimen

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.

2011/02/24

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LetterMpress: A Virtual Letterpress on Your iPad

2011/02/14

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Webfont demos of fonts.info typefaces

We created some demo pages of our new fonts.info webfonts. They are not as exciting as the Lost World’s Fairs or similar demos you might know, but they show our fonts in a real-world context with a typical use in common font sizes.

2011/01/24

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Capital Sharp S – Germany’s new character

With the release of Unicode 5.1 in 2008 the German alphabet got completed and has now a proper replacement for the character ß (called “Eszett” or “sharp s”) when type is set in uppercase letters or small caps. Even in Germany not everyone has ever thought about this missing character, but it usually just takes [...]

2011/01/18

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Check out the latest edition of Typo magazine

The image on the cover of the latest edition of the bilingual (English/Czech) Typo magazine says “I wish this was … The best issue ever!” Well, to me it certainly is, since it features two of my favourite topics: typography and wayfinding.

2010/10/27

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Airport signage and cultural differences

Since the middle of the past century, the technical development of our means of transport and associated facilities has expanded to a degree that it is becoming more and more complicated to use. People are more mobile than ever before: they travel from one town to another, from one country to another and from one [...]

2010/08/28

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