- * Indra Kupferschmid is a typographer and professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. Hier sammeln sich Fundstücke und Texte.
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Recent Posts
- Evaluating the quality of a typeface
- Current favs
- Akzidenzschriften des 19. Jahrhunderts
- 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
- Mike
- Things in Use
- Die Römische Linkskursive
- hurst
- Typographic Chinese Whispers
- Sarre by Sascha Timplan
- Publishing
- 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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Classifications
arecan be useful - Life wasn’t easy in phototype days
- 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
- fresh from Frankfurt book fair I+II
- I’m giving a talk
- Decorum im Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
- Exkursionen
Typographic Chinese Whispers
Our HBKsaar project together with Typeradio and the t]m class of 2014 at KABK The Hague. Presentation next week Friday, February 7, 15:00. Hallo bitte kommen!
“Flyer” by Donald Beekman