Archive for category: Typography

Courier Prime: Continuing to solve the wrong problem with screenplay typography    (2013.02.08)

John August’s Courier Prime typeface gets its problems exactly backward

‘The Coach House way of doing things’    (2013.01.21)

What is “the Coach House way of doing things”? (I expect artisanal publishing to produce beautiful objects you will love to read)

MetaStupid    (2013.01.01)

A year-long hiatus from MetaFilter, where I am user 250 (1999), due to the entrenched stupidity of its intelligent and sophisticated owner and developer

Precious, bankable Craig Mod    (2012.12.14)

Flowery, grandiloquent Craig Mod and developer-autistic Marco Arment are being disingenuous when they claim not to have defined a new publishing style. They have – and, after the manner of Butt and FANTASTIC MAN, it will now be copied

Baskerville, like lead in the bloodstream, makes smart people stupid    (2012.08.26)

Errol Morris gets basically everything wrong in his “test” that “proved” Baskerville was the most credible typeface. But don’t worry: My corrections here will not change anything

Type size on the AIDS Memorial    (2012.07.30)

Yes, the type size on the AIDS Memorial was reduced at one point, but “teeny tiny” it isn’t

Schwartzed    (2012.06.07)

Mr. CHRISTIAN SCHWARTZ visited Toronto

Sad typography photo    (2012.05.04)

Nothing made me sadder about my contribution to typography than this photograph

YOR    (2012.04.23)