In the continuing saga of how near-sighted font companies are destroying their market and the practice of online typography, I present you:
“[Letterhead Fonts] may think it’s going to shame one of its customers into paying, but all it’s really doing is convincing a lot of folks never to buy anything from Letterhead fonts in the […]
Typography was my first design love.
A well chosen typeface, used effectively, is like a the score of a movie. Adding richness and tone to the underlying story.
Unfortunately, here in web browser land we’ve only got a few good notes; Helvetica (1957), Verdana (1996), Georgia (1993),
Online typography doesn’t exist today. Full stop.
If we assume browser-based […]
“Sorry, Apple. Papyrus Condensed does not qualify as a ‘feature’…..Apple has all but ignored typography since OS X was born, seven years ago.” - Stephen Coles, typogrphica.org
Haven’t had a Friday link-dump in a while. Here ya go:
Type:
St. Paul…er…New Hope…er…UK based Process Type Foundry (Eric Olson) has a new typeface out called Seravek.
Portugal Based DSType Foundry (Dino dos Santos) is having a half-off summer sale. Dino has some great faces that are already affordably priced. Half off is going to make […]
As a St. Pauler, I’ve long tried to keep allegiance to the Pioneer Press. Alas, I’ve found it to be increasingly vapid and falling far behind the Strib in terms of good local reporting. I still support it, as it’s a rare thing in this day in age to have a city with two major […]
We graphic designers tend to focus on the minutia. And while god is in the details, design, as a whole, can suffer when focus is taken away from the big picture.
A friend of mine once attended a talk by Paul Mijksenaar where he provided a list of what people find important when viewing a […]
Back, before I discovered the ease of weblogs, I was at design firm exploring the idea of an online magazine (I think we got to issue #2 and archive.org doesn’t even remember it).
This was in the heady days of Netscape 4.0, DHTML, and embedded fonts. As type buff, I was intrigued with the idea of […]
David Pogue reviews Tiger for the NY Times.
Al Franken is coming home to Minnesota. Looks like Norm might have an opponent in ‘08.
Arianna Huffington appears to be forming a blog posse.
PacifierOnline is a new modern children’s store in Minneapolis. Nicely priced kids furniture alongside overpriced kids clothing.
Smoking Marijuana may be less damaging than email […]
Some quick odds and ends I’ve come across this week:
What to do with skip links
Hickdesign has done a commendable job of creating a very visually pleasing, unobtrusive, yet easily findable ’skip to content’ link on his page design. It seems like a simple thing, but you rarely see it, and the debate on what do […]
Mike Davidson, along with a hard working crew, released sIFR 2.0, rc2 yesterday. sIFR is a free, simple little flash file that you can use on your web sites to replace your semanticly marked up html text with flash rendered type in your font of choice. While I haven’t been a big fan of this […]
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