- * Indra Kupferschmid is a typographer and professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar working with everything Schrift.
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- Schriftenfest Dresden 2019
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- Notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2a – Timeline
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2
- Ekkehardt vs Eckmann – Plagiatsvorwürfe anno 1903
- On the topic of female speakers at conferences (again, sorry)
- Post-graduate courses in typeface design and research
- Why make something that isn’t great?
- Upgrade, but not all the way
- So many good webfonts!
- Some type genres explained
- The responsibilities of the graphic designer
- Typo 9010
- The Pyte Foundry
- Rabatte und Schrift-Trends
- Fonts In Use turned five!?
- Two tweets from my drafts
- Alphabettes
- Max Bollwage’s caricatures of type people
- Type excursion through Italy
- Flipped, droopy, “sign-painter” quotes
- The unforseen merits of girls’ school?
- Proposal:
- Female speakers at conferences
- Equality in our industry
- Typography on the Web
- Deutscher Gießzettel für Antiqua
- Udo Jürgens – Indra
- I had never loved Helvetica
- Live Type Research in Barcelona
- Typeradio Interview
- Students and font licenses
- Auto-optical
- The task of the designer is sometimes also to prevent things
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- Die Römische Linkskursive
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- Sarre by Sascha Timplan
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- My German Reunification
- The Ideal Type Newsletter
- End of Saarbatical
- I hacked my Messages
- Discounts
- Taking Over Type Foundries
- Interview-Fundstück von Mai 2009
- Typographers are scholars
- Alastair Johnston rants about Helvetica
- The Hamilton Woodtype Museum is the coolest place in type world!
- Notes from Lyon
- Type used in Germany’s best designed books of 2012
- On Responsive Typography
- Multi-axes type families
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk
- Type classifications are useful, but the common ones are not
- sans serif
- Fonts and intellectual property
- Zur Erinnerung: Der erste Spiekermann’sche Lehrsatz
- Font Shopping 2011
- ATypI Konferenz Leipzig 2000
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- Thank you
- On Webdesign and Education
- New Ideas for Book Typography
- Schrift
- De Luc-Truc by Lucas de Groot
- Theoretisch ist Kunst total sinnlos
- Where do you want to drive?
- New column: Ask Indra
- Sometimes less really is less
- Kurt Weidemann, adé.
- Wo bleibt eigentlich Font-Shopping Teil 3?
- Font-Shopping Continues
- Font Shopping (Part I)
- All One!
- Typography ≠ lettering ≠ writing
- The tab, scroll and swipe of the book designer
- Bauhaus, but not in Bauhaus
- The Difference between Humanist, Transitional and Modern Typefaces
- Werde Lehrer für Typografie und Schriftentwurf
- Zwiebelfisch
- noch mal Helvetica
- Have I told you recently, that I love Lars Müller Publishers?
- Typostammtisch am Freitag, 5. Februar
- Ein Schriftfächer-Klassifikations-Musterbuch
- Who is Gando?
- and the winner is …
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 3)
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 2)
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 1)
- Schriftklassifikation in a nutshell
- Webfonts – ein Selbstversuch
The tab, scroll and swipe of the book designer
Not only Ruder but also reading Hochuli is very recommendable.
I think I am a scroll person.
During my first week of ipadding I found myself mostly holding it in both hands, left and right thumbs on the black margin. Easiest appropriate navigation is scrolling with one thumb during reading (focus of attention roughly in the middle of the screen), occasionally tabbing top left to go back somewhere.
What I like best so far are all kinds of navigation that don’t require my hands to leave the device. This might be different when the ipad is laying on my lap. But also then I mostly have my hands resting next to it.
Tabbing somewhere down right to get to the next page in a paginated layout is comfortable as well. But a bigger gesture like swiping with two fingers would call my hands to lift and perform a greater movement than just lazy scrolling.
Well, no unbearable demand, but the process and comfort of reading is influenced by lazyness to a very large extent.