Category: News

Trajan is the movie font! If you haven’t already watched this at Typographica, see this brilliant Internet clip from Kirby Ferguson now!

Fans: “Say it ain’t so baseball, say it ain’t so!” Baseball: “Its so, kids.” Via the New York Times.

Ich finde und habe immer gefunden, daß sich ein Buch gerade vorzugsweise zu einem freundschaftlichen Geschenk eignet. Man liest es oft, man kehrt oft dazu zurück; man naht sich ihm nur in ausgewählten Momenten, braucht es nicht wie eine Tasse, ein Glas, einen Hausrat in jedem gleichgültigen Augenblick des Lebens und erinnert sich so immer…

This month’s Linotype newsletter, the LinoLetter, arrived in my inbox today. A link in the newsletter took me a new landing-page for the Madame typeface, which has just been released in the OpenType font format. Well, viewing this page, I couldn’t believe my eyes! The four graphics I’ve linked to above are the nicest type…

Google Analytics is so much fun! It tells me a number of great things about my readers, where they are, and who they are not. For example, I have more visitors from London than anywhere else. Conversely, I have more readers in Tehran than in Offenbach. Iran! More Iranians read my blog than Offenbachers, and…

Over at Art. Lebedev’s website, there is a cute little Internet thing where you can squoosh type with a little slider. This is kind of neat, and is just like an exercise we did during our first design workshop here at Reading. Paul and Rob, this link is for the both of you.

Some luck lies not in getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. – Garrison Keillor

Knut, the cute and cuddly polar bear at the Berlin Zoo is now one year old. Actually, he seems almost fully-grown and is no longer so small and cudly. But he is still cute. I visited Knut back in April, and I will always remember him.

Years ago, on one of my birthdays back in college, I got an e-mail from my mother. “We paid your tuition. Happy Birthday.” Reading this was about as exciting as hearing, “Merry Christmas! Here’s a new sweater.” Well, Gerard Unger is in the department again this week, and last night I heard another Matthew Carter…

What is the music playing inside my head? Err… Meat Loaf. But when I’m thinking in German, the singer is Atilla Korap. Listen to his music, and you won’t want to let go either.

I like this. You know how font foundry promotions tend to go. I mean, they’ll bundle “Christmas fonts” and “Easter fonts” or “Holiday fonts,” etc. Today, Ascender has released a package for Hanukkah. See it here, now. The fonts? Antrax, Caslong Titling, Colmcille Italic, Dorchester Script, and Lydian. No Hebrew in there, but the list…

I’m finishing up my dissertation proposal. Only one of my the works I’m referencing is available online; it is worth a look if you haven’t read it before – Fiona Ross’s “Non-Latin Type Design at Linotype,” a transcript of a paper presented at Twentieth Century Graphic Communication, the First annual Friends of St Bride conference…