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- 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
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- Zur Erinnerung: Der erste Spiekermann’sche Lehrsatz
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- Underused Gems Revisited
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arecan be useful - Life wasn’t easy in phototype days
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- Font-Shopping Continues
- Font Shopping (Part I)
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New column: Ask Indra
I’m trying to help with type questions as much as time allows me – via email, on typophile or elsewhere. So why not share some on here too? “When licensing fonts do you usually buy a whole family, or just select weights? I’m thinking especially in the case of some ••• supermegadeluxx families, I just [...]
The Difference between Humanist, Transitional and Modern Typefaces
Some key-characters for classifying typefaces are a, e, and R. Humanist (Serifs, Sans, Slab) a’s mostly have an open upper counter and a rather small bowl; the lower half of the e has an open, friendly »mouth«, whereas the eye in the upper half is usually small. R has a diagonal, often long, maybe swashy [...]
Veröffentlicht in Type Getagged a, classification, english, Klassifikation, schrift, Type, typo 3 Kommentare
What typefaces to combine with Helvetica?
Because I was asked this several times in the last months and today this question also appeared on typophile, here are my suggestions (further ideas welcome): Transitional and Modern Serifs should work quite well with Helvetica, but also Garaldes like Garamond – depends on what kind of atmosphere you aim at. If you are looking [...]
Favourite Underused Typefaces
FontShop Amerika sucht nach den besten unterrepräsentierten Schriften. Hier meine Liste (konnte sie nicht auf 140 Zeichen einkürzen). Over at fontshop.com they asked for underused alternatives to overused typefaces. Here’s my list (couldn’t narrow it down to 140 characters). flavourful seriffed text faces: Parable, Chris Burke, 2002, FontShopInternational Biblon, František Štorm, 2000, ITC/Storm Type Foundry [...]
Veröffentlicht in Type Getagged alternatives, bracketed, english, fontshop, serif, underused fonts 3 Kommentare
Interview-Fundstück von Mai 2009