- * Indra Kupferschmid ist Typografin, Autorin und Professorin für Typografie und Kommunikationsdesign an der Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. Hier sammeln sich Fundstücke und Texte der letzten Jahre.
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»Sometimes less really is less«
So one of the results of my two days web-interlude with the genius Florian Hardwig is a site that looks more basic every day. Not that this wordpress-theme got any simpler or managable, the only thing I’m capable of is removing stuff it seems. Although I’m not happy with the general design and admin, I [...]
Veröffentlicht in HBKsaar Getagged english, Font Bureau, webdesign, webfonts, wordpress 4 Kommentare
Kurt Weidemann, adé.
Yesterday my good friend Kurt died at the age of 88. I got to know him 1995 in Weimar when I invited him to give a lecture at our university. Prior to this we had coffee and cake at our squatted student’s abode, ranted about architects, designers, this, that and the world and he seemed [...]
Wo bleibt eigentlich Font-Shopping Teil 3?
Tja, der Beitrag liegt immer noch hier rum. Und ich hätte auch gerne noch ein paar Dinge anmerken wollen zu Einkaufswagenerlebnissen, Schriftmustern, Testworten, Rechnungsstellung und Auslieferung. Aber gerade zum Thema Distribution habe ich mich neulich auf Twitter wohl etwas zu weit aus dem Fenster gelehnt, so dass ich von einigen Seiten was auf die Backe [...]
Font-Shopping Continues
In case someone actually still wants to buy fonts this year I better hurry up with my report. Alright, what more did I buy? . Okay Type: They (Jackson and his cat) have some really super fonts in the making, but only Alright Sans is ready for licensing yet. I had kept track of this interesting [...]
Font Shopping (Part I)
Last week I found myself faced with the rare and luxurious task to spend quite some money, quickly, and on something typography related. I guess I’m not alone with this end-of-year-business-expence problem, so instead of a list with cool things in type 2010 I want to share my shopping experiences here. As kind of a [...]
Veröffentlicht in unterwegs Getagged a, english, Font Bureau, fonts, MyFonts, Process Type, schrift, Schriftwahl, shopping, super, Type, typo 13 Kommentare
Typography ≠ lettering ≠ writing
Typography can look like lettering (Liza Pro, fancy opentype faces) but it’s not. It can even look like writing (formal scripts or handwriting fonts like FF Mister K), with the major parts of the letter or whole words formed of one stroke. In the same way lettering can look like typography (rub-down letters, fine rendering) [...]
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.
Bauhaus, but not in Bauhaus
Certainly Bauhaus and Avantgarde are the most common cases of LTypI (Lacking Typographic Imagination aka choosing a font because of its name for an application of that name). It might disappoint you vastly but the initial Bauhaus manifest 1919 and most of their printed matter in early years were set in art-nouveau flavoured seriffed faces, in the case [...]
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 [...]
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