Archive for category: Typography

Gerry Leonidas’s sermon from the mount    (2010.03.29)

Gerry Leonidas (airily): “To paraphrase Goudy, the problem is not… that the old-timers stole all the best ideas, but that the old ideas are in danger of being rediscovered from scratch”

Thu, Mar 25 on Church St, hell froze over    (2010.03.28)

Xtra finally experiences a hot-beef-injection-like influx of italics

Unsinkable luxury liner seeks skipper    (2010.01.23)

SEGD is hiring a new boss. Could it be the “signage” organization’s first competent hire?

1 ≠ I    (2010.01.11)

It’s great that Al Gore noticed a ranging-figure 1 was hard to read. It’s hard to read because of the fake bullshit rule that acronyms have to be typeset in small caps. (Now with update you won’t bother to read)

The magazine’s oppressive Adobe Caslon    (2010.01.06)

Suddenly the shittily-designed and -typeset New Yorker has an “oppressive font”

Talking with the taxman about thin spaces    (2009.10.24)

Guess what: Firefox nerds can’t figure out why anybody would want to use a thin space

Hold me closer, Hopeless Diamond    (2009.10.24)

Jonathan Barnbrook’s faceted typeface

A ‘wayfinding’ book that doesn’t suck    (2009.09.07)

Finally. Since the rest of them pretty much do. But The Wayfinding Handbook by Gibson does not

Ascender v. House    (2009.08.13)

Compare and contrast the commitment to quality and high standards of House Industries and AscenderFonts