Fawny
Possibly not the best way to discuss ‘plain text’
David Pogue’s mishmash of ASCII and em dashes (+)
Battle of the business card
Patrick Bateman, American Psycho: “Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God – it even has a watermark” (+)
Another failure of public typography
Women’s College Hospital in Toronto proposes to plaster Arial caps (with neutral apostrophe) all over their windows (+)
(L )
Is Lisa Cholodenko’s new lesberrific movie entitled The Kids Are Alright or The Kids Are All Right? At one time, either (+)
Where Microsoft beats Apple
Microsoft beats Apple in typography. This abomination cannot stand. Here, then, some ways to fix the problem (+)
Gerry Leonidas’s sermon from the mount
Gerry Leonidas (airily): “To paraphrase Goudy, the problem is not... that the old-timers stole all the best ideas, but that the old ideas are in danger of being rediscovered from scratch” (+)
Mar 25 on Church St, hell froze over
Xtra finally experiences a hot-beef-injection-like influx of italics (+)
Unsinkable luxury liner seeks skipper
SEGD is hiring a new boss. Could it be the “signage” organization’s first competent hire? (+)
1 ≠ I
It’s great that Al Gore noticed a ranging-figure 1 was hard to read. It’s hard to read because of the fake bullshit rule that acronyms have to be typeset in small caps (+)
The magazine’s oppressive Adobe Caslon
Suddenly the shittily-designed and -typeset New Yorker has an “oppressive font” (+)
Talking with the taxman about thin spaces
Guess what: Firefox nerds can’t figure out why anybody would want to use a thin space (+)
A ‘wayfinding’ book that doesn’t suck
Finally. Since the rest of them pretty much do. But The Wayfinding Handbook by Gibson does not (+)
Ascender v. House
Compare and contrast the commitment to quality and high standards of House Industries and AscenderFonts (+)
This movie is sincere, say the squiggles
Squiggly illustration and type drawn with ballpoint pen both connote “sincerity” (+)
South African exolinguistics
How convincing does the alien language in District 9 sound? (And look?) (+)
SEGD hires Pentagram
Society for Environmental Graphic Design hires Pentagram to unfuck its site (+)
Praxism
What happened at this year’s UofT Engineering Praxis II presentations (again TTC-related) (+)
Shortchangers
How to ruin the typography of a novel in verse about L.A. lycanthropes (+)
‘Detail in Typography’
Pronounce this name (HOLDS UP SIGN READING “JOST HOCHULI”) (+)
People are books too!
Bobby Bringhurst: “[B]ooks are invisible.” No, they are not (+)
Fonts too big?
Relative readability: 16px screen type is like 11pt print type (+)
‘While You’re Reading’
The rather disappointing While You’re Reading by Gerard Unger (+)
Keep Bill Hill off the Web
Please, Bill! Let us do the development work. And for the love of God, hire some real designers (+)
How not to advance the discussion of Web fonts
Bill Hill’s posting on Web fonts is offputting to the point of repugnance (+)
TypeCon: Learning from mistakes?
TypeCon organizer GRRLZ: Did they realize the errors of their ways or are they just hypocrites? (+)
Type treatments in TTC public art
Two TTC station artworks will include typography. So let’s not blow it (+)
18 years to replace the dot matrix
If we’re given 18 years to replace dot-matrix signs on transportation vehicles, should we even bother? (+)
Kindle complaints, sight unseen
“Kindle” is a great name for a gay dog and a half-arsed name for a consumer product (+)
TTC Type & Tile Triumph 2
26 people came out for the second TTC Type & Tile Tour (+)
TTC Type & Tile Triumph
The first TTC Type & Tile Tour was a roaring success (50 people!) (+)
Where are the women in typography?
An oft-posed question. While the true answer is ‘The typeface does not know you’re a girl,’ here is an alternative response (+)
Capsule reviews of ATypI sessions
Quickie reviews of sessions at ATypI Brighton 2007 (+)
Kevin Larson: ‘Better than a poke in the eye’
Presentation by Kevin Larson: What exactly is eye fatigue? (+)
‘Inscribed in the Living Tile’
Yes, my book-chapter-length treatise on TTC signage is finally done (+)
Albert-Jan Pool: ‘DIN 1451’
Presentation by Albert-Dan Pool, designer of FF DIN, on pretty much the entire history of DIN (+)
Matthew Carter: ‘Bruce Rogers and his Centaur type’
Presentation by Matthew Carter on Bruce Rogers, especially as a book designer and überperfectionist (+)
Karen Cheng: ‘Teaching type in the city’
Presentation by Karen Cheng on teaching sophomore graphic-design students to design type (+)
Phil Baines: ‘From the Motor Car Act to motorways’
Presentation by Phil Baines on, inevitably, motorway signs (+)
Akira Kobayashi: ‘Sansserif types and their humanistic backgrounds’
Presentation on, essentially, Avenir Next and Palatino Sans (+)
- contacto