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Ce n’est pas un nom parmi d’autres typographes, non pas forcément le plus célèbre si tant que cela soit utile de faire ce genre de concours de beauté. Claude Garamont est l’un des fondateurs de la typographie, mis à l’honneur pour le 450ème anniversaire de sa mort en 1561. Le site officiel de la commémoration […]
April 27, 2011
John Boardley, from iLoveTypography, is the mastermind behind the soon-to-be-released quaterly called Codex Mag. It is set to be a delight : a journal of ink and paper and texture and type, that embodied the full richness of the subject, whose audience would be people who center their work or their attention on the deeper […]
March 30, 2011
The topic is not scarce by typOL, but Smashing Magazine released a long post well carved about type choice, so far as to quote clever links to it. - Goal ? Legibility | Readibility. - Appropriateness ? Design Intent | Aesthetics | Mood | Personal choice | A few technical considerations. - Tips ? Plan […]
March 20, 2011
The stance is claimed by iA (Information Architects), and this is all the more accurate. Smashing Magazine elaborates on it to provide some guidelines and tips for Technical Web Typography. More precisely : How to choose a font face How to choose a font size Using a grid Working out the measure Vertical rhythm and […]
March 9, 2011
The long interview published in Printmag is about typography from the very first letter to the final point. Indeed. (…) Carter is unique in having designed type in every medium that has existed since the era of Gutenberg: metal, wood, film, and digital. His career has also spanned a surprising revolution in the profession of type design. […]
March 3, 2011
@font-face ? This is that : @font-face is a css rule which allows you to download a particular font from your server to render a webpage if the user hasn’t got that font installed. This means that web designers will no longer have to adhere to a particular set of “web safe” fonts that the […]
February 27, 2011
This type is presented by Idsgn as the new Helvetica, something like the new common look for so many logos and texts : Apple, Wallmart, LinkedIn, etc. In the early nineties, when typeface designers Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly set out to design a new sans-serif for Adobe, the goal was to create something generic—jokingly […]
February 19, 2011
Imagine an excellent interview of one interesting personality, rendered in the form true to his or her very own activities ? This is what MyFont releases regularly in its series about Type Designers. Furthermore, - Rising (Font) Stars ; - Seasonal Specials. & : - Cat’ TypoGrapho (@webOL). - @twitter/webol/typo.
February 16, 2011
Jos Buivenga is a gem in the alphabet realms on earth and beyond. Another new 100% free magnificent font (at least for the regular series) is out, along with the gorgeous Calluna and Museo, which is mouth-watering. To know more about him is to read the MyFonts Creatice Characters September ’09 issue. Anyway, - The […]
January 30, 2011
Typography is no detail but, once more, a privileged way to show the language. Jost Hochuli is the author of a small and inescapable leaflet about Detail in typographie (the original opus is Das Detail in der Typographie, translated into french as Le détail en typographie) : - Review by The Designer’s Review of Books. […]
November 26, 2011
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