Typography

An archive of all the entries categorized Typography. This category has an rss feed which you can subscribe. Currently, Typography has 9 entries, the most recent of which is displayed below with the rest displayed in reverse chronological order.

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Fine Typography for the Web Presentation - ""Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the.... 21st Jun. 2006

Italia Font - I've been using Italia as the display and logotype for a weblog cum magazine that I have been working on recently. I like the shape of the letters at large sizes.... 15th May. 2006

How Was It For You? (aiga) - I've always loved the look of Chinese and Japanese characters for the way look more than what they are trying to communicate linguistically. I love the space between the letter forms and.... 6th Mar. 2006

Gerard Unger's typeface designs - Gerard Unger typeface designer of Swift (1985), Amerigo (1986), Flora (1984), and Gulliver (1993) (the typeface used in USA Today) has produced a Web site that is a wealth of information on.... 23rd Feb. 2004

The Scourge of Arial - An older excellent article on the prevalence of Arial on computer desktops and a sidebar which shows typographically challenged designers how to tell Arial from the typefaces it was designed to imitate..... 22nd Dec. 2003

Type basics - "100% practical. Sketches have been made to explain some basic issues in type design during the workshops. They get used to point out some problems which raise while creating a new typeface..... 29th Oct. 2003

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