Archive for category: Typography

John August’s “straightjacket”    (2015.10.25)

John August: The screenplay format is just a set of assumptions, one of them being the only typeface you can use is Courier

Useless (knowledge)    (2015.08.27)

Useless knowledge en route to Best of Enemies

How to fix Typophile    (2015.06.06)

Well, first of all, no fucking Mormons. Or just keep it as an archive

Two diacritic(al) projects    (2015.02.16)

Two sites about diacritics

How to load the dishwasher    (2015.01.04)

I did the obvious thing. I downloaded one or more instruction manuals from essentially every dishwasher manufacturer in existence, extracted just the pages or parts thereof that illustrate how to load the dishwasher, and assembled them on Flickr

Spiekermann    (2014.11.16)

Stood up by Spiekermann

Memo to Khoi Vinh: Helvetica complaints    (2014.10.28)

Khoi Vinh: “Helvetica has been the standard system typeface for iOS since the beginning, and largely without complaint.” Oh?

Apple Watch typeface    (2014.09.13)

What’s the Apple Watch typeface? It’s not quite DIN

How not to typeset Medium    (2014.08.27)

Medium.com: Where we spend months figuring out how to underline a word but still typeset all our copy like Microsoft Word