Archive for category: Typography

This movie is sincere, say the squiggles    (2009.06.19)

Squiggly illustration and type drawn with ballpoint pen both connote “sincerity”

South African exolinguistics    (2009.05.03)

How convincing does the alien language in District 9 sound? (And look?)

SEGD hires Pentagram    (2009.04.30)

Society for Environmental Graphic Design hires Pentagram to unfuck its site

Shortchangers    (2009.03.10)

How to ruin the typography of a novel in verse about L.A. lycanthropes

‘Detail in Typography’    (2009.02.24)

Pronounce this name (HOLDS UP SIGN READING “JOST HOCHULI”)

People are books too!    (2009.02.06)

Bobby Bringhurst: “[B]ooks are invisible.” No, they are not

TypeCon of yore    (2009.01.22)

What I had proposed for TypeCon 2008

Fonts too big?    (2009.01.22)

Relative readability: 16px screen type is like 11pt print type

‘Unreadable’    (2009.01.12)

My article for Scroll is now onliné