Archive for category: Typography

What happens when you let Canadian Tire run a government office    (2012.02.03)

The atrocious signage at my Service Ontario location is one thing. The fact that it is functionally impossible to get there if you’re blind is another – and it is one of only two locations in Toronto where blind people can apply for the only ID card they can use

Masculine or feminine type?    (2011.10.25)

Original and revised posters for Drive

‘Counterpunch’    (2011.10.18)

Fred Smeijers’s Counterpunch is coming out in a new edition. It’s tough and it’s demanding, but also enjoyable and understandable

Toronto mediocrity meets federal-government mediocrity    (2011.09.15)

The slapdash signs at the downtown Toronto passport office. To paraphrase Morrissey: “Why?”

How to do Web typography    (2011.09.02)

Jason Santa Maria re-redesigned his site with typography functionally identical to mine

Nicolás Feredjian    (2011.07.10)

My curious Flickr follower, with an interest in the Buenos Aires Subte (tunnelling, signage)

Jules Vernacular    (2011.06.30)

Amateur French typographic signage

Arranging the names of the 9/11 memorial    (2011.06.30)

How in God’s name would anyone born after 1970 think for a moment that 2,982 names could be arranged on index cards?

The problem of small caps    (2011.06.27)

Interview with Tim Ahrens