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Traffic Sign Typefaces: Poland
When I first saw a digital version of the Polish traffic typeface, I though I must have gotten a really bad digitization. It had characters which were obviously cut off by mistake …
Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3
Firefox 3 will be the first major browser with support for kerning and automatic ligatures. I tested the Firefox 3 release canditate and I have to say, it’s not perfect yet. But first the good news: Kerning Kerning is an important feature in print typography but for most of the (rather small) texts we read […]
Join the LTypI now!
Which typeface could I use for the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Maybe Emigre’s Brothers? Designing a logo for the “Hotel Broadway”? Let’s try the font Broadway! Yes, that’s certainly a “Lack of typographic Imagination”! Stephen Coles (typographica.org) and Ivo Gabrowitsch (fontwerk.com) created the Flickr group LTypI to collect these hilarious font choices.
Traffic Sign Typefaces: DIN 1451 (Germany)
The official traffic typeface in Germany is called DIN 1451 and has a very long history …
Exploring webfont possibilities
Embeddable webfonts (as introduced with Safari 3.1) are not just about using fancy fonts on web pages. It also opens new possibilities for using glyphs that are simply not available in the standard system fonts. Let’s say you are a linguist or archeologist and wan’t to set an ancient text and you need characters that […]
Traffic Sign Typefaces: Dansk Vejtavleskrift (Denmark)
Denmark is very generous with colors. Road sign can be red on white, white on green, blue on white, black on yellow and white on blue. Red (usually reserved for emergency icons) is the main color, because it is the color of the national flag of Denmark.
