- * 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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Classifications are can be useful
Achtung: This is a very rough and unrefinded sketch of some of my thoughts on classifications, only to get something online for colleagues who asked about it today. I will hopefully revise and illustrate the text later. Goal The aim of a classification of typefaces – however shaped – should be to aid the [...]
De Luc-Truc by Lucas de Groot
The Luc-trick – a new sketching technique for everyone The Luc-trick allows you to transfer a copied image to another surface. In the process of photocopying (xerographic image transfer) the reflected light of the original renders a light-sensitive “master” partially statically charged. On these areas the powder (toner) is attracted and then transferred onto a sheet [...]
Where do you want to drive?
I love this quote by John Hudson which just popped up in a discussion about type classifications: Tinkering with the wheel alignment of a car that might turn out not to have an engine seems pointless, especially if you haven’t even decided where it is to which you wish to drive. This actually fits all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Type, unterwegs Auch getagged a, english, Font Bureau, fonts, MyFonts, Process Type, schrift, Schriftwahl, shopping, super, typo 13 Kommentare
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 Ask, Type Auch getagged a, classification, english, Klassifikation, schrift, typo 3 Kommentare
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 [...]
Font Shopping 2011