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Thoughts on Classification of Typefaces

Von Indra | Veröffentlicht am:27. Juli 2009
Master of cross-references and typedirector at Fontshop San Francisco Stephen Coles posted a question recently that bothers me for some years as well: How can we name typefaces with modern, classicistic structure like Didones but with bracketed serifs instead of straight, hairline ones? There are subclasses like “Scotch” within this group, typefaces designed for the tricky [...]
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Favourite Underused Typefaces

Von Indra | Veröffentlicht am:26. Juli 2009
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 [...]
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Sintrax vacuum coffee maker

Von Indra | Veröffentlicht am:13. Juli 2009
coffee brewers at Museum der Dinge Solved the riddle: mine (middle) is a Sintrax by Schott Jena/Mainz (1948–60) follow-up to the Bauhaus’ Gerhard Marcks model from 1926 (not in pic) and Wagenfeld’s (front right, left with modified handle) from ca. 1932. The remarkable thing about the later Sintrax is that is has no rubber gasket, like [...]
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