- * 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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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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noch mal Helvetica
Funny, while browsing some reviews of Helvetica forever I found this one on Designboom, which is featuring almost only my tiny little article on typesetting methods. Five pictures of one spread*, a boring side note in a thrilling story. Must have made an impression. No pic of the historic essay, none of the comparisons, only one [...]
Have I told you recently, that I love Lars Müller Publishers?
Lars Müller is back better than ever. And independent again. Not only went my “best type book of the year” to Corporate Diversity. Advertising by Geigy, I also very much love the Celestino Piatti and Unimark book, to name but a few. Check out their new website (and order Helvetica forever extensively! :) read on: my report [...]
Who is Gando?
Anyone in need of a topic for a typeface revival? Today in the mail: a type card by Eckehart SchumacherGebler featuring a rare Didone (together with a real one, the Pierre Didot by him and Vilbert). The Roman and Italic was acquired by Offizin Haag-Drugulin of Leipzig in 1868 from the tradition-rich printer Tauchnitz, who winded up [...]
fresh from Frankfurt book fair I+II
It’s a good year in (design-)books. Although I always think, it’s getting harder and harder to surprise or intrigue me, I brought back at least as many kg of books as in the past years. Outstanding finds and developments:
In Defense of Helvetica
I just read a fitting comparison of type and food in connection with Helvetica. To me Helvetica feels to typography a bit like Japanese white rice feels to traditional Japanese cuisine. That is, on its own it may seem pretty bland to most people. [...] Yet, as a balanced complement to all other elements in [...]
no pics
Ever wondered why this here is so – sagen wir mal – typographic? I just don’t get it. I do not manage to upload pictures, neither with browser- nor flashupload, not via gallery or uploads-menu. The photos are listed in the gallery, but not displayed, like this: Ahhhh! had to shake lightly to level wp-content.
A conversation with Dan Reynolds on Bachelor & Master
Since I am working on the BA-Modulhandbücher again, I'd like to share an extensive post-exchange I had with Dan Reynolds recently. (Achtung, lang)
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 [...]
Bauhaus, but not in Bauhaus