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
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
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
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.
2011/06/14
How do we read words and how should we set them?
In the last article of this series we have established the relevant terms around legibility. Now we move on to the process of reading itself. As you probably know, our eyes don’t move continuously along a line of text. Instead we perform so-called saccades, fast eye movements from one word or phrase to the next. [...]
2011/06/09
Typographic Week 23—Vintage, Poems & Paintings
Poem Script from Sudtipos Poem Script by Ale Paul is a mixed collection of interpretations conjuring a late nineteenth century American pen script style. Though not an actual Italian letterform, this style was called “Italian Alphabet” stemming from an old penman’s term for an alphabet where the stress or shades are opposite their normal placement. [...]
2011/05/27
Typographic Week 21
Letters in Stone Maud Bekaert from Brugge, Belgium carves letters in stone. There are beautiful carvings available at http://www.letterwebshop.com. Apart from the shop items, name plates, tombstones, inauguration stones, house numbers, wedding and birth stones, or any other application of letter carving can be commissioned. Font Editor Glyphs Glyphs is a new font editor developed [...]
2011/07/31
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