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History Of Typefaces: Industrial-Strength Types

Posted by Alastair Johnston on November 2, 2012 · Comments Off

The Industrial Revolution gave us a new iron age, one of cast iron, which a devotee of Vulcan told me he thought was the highest achievement of man — or, as he put it, “the hairless ape.” In the 18th century, cast-iron bridges sprang across British rivers such as the Tay and Severn. These lovely sculptural archways are resistant to rust, so many are still [...]

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Typography Carved In Stone // Design Process

Posted by Anne Brady on September 20, 2012 · Comments Off

Every name here is a tragic story of loss and heartbreak. The Garda Memorial Garden, or Gairdín Cuimhneacháin an Gharda Síochána, is located in the heart of Dublin city. This memorial is a contemplative garden with large stone plinths and a lot of names and numbers. The list of names, this “roll of honor,” records individual police officers (gardaí) who [...]

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Legitima Typeface: An Experience Of Fossils And Revivals // A Practical Case-Study

Posted by César Puertas on August 6, 2012 · Comments Off

Just as living species depend on mutation and adaptation to survive, typefaces too depend on their features to optimize the performance of text in a given environment. This principle seems to determine, in a way, the degree of failure or success that printing types (old and new) have in the physical world. Typeface revivals (i.e. old typefaces beautiful enough [...]

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New High-Quality Free Fonts

Posted by Smashing Editorial on July 20, 2012 · Comments Off

Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice out there is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Signika, Plastic [...]

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Avoiding Faux Weights And Styles With Google Web Fonts

Posted by Laura Franz on July 11, 2012 · Comments Off

If you’re using Google Web Fonts on your websites, then there’s a very good chance that 1 in 5 visitors are seeing faux bold and italic versions of your fonts — even if you correctly selected and used all of the weights and styles. That’s because the implementation method recommended by Google Web Fonts doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 7 or 8. (As [...]

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Hands-On Experience: The Rehabilitation Of The Script

Posted by Simon Loxley on July 2, 2012 · Comments Off

Serifs, sans serifs and… scripts. In theory not a bad typographic palette to play with, but when it comes to practice, the options are always far fewer. One member of that stylistic trio could never quite punch its weight. But over the last few years we have seen something of a rebirth and revitalization of scripts, a category that once represented a care home [...]

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A Hands-On Experience Of The Rehabilitation Of The Script

Posted by Simon Loxley on July 2, 2012 · Comments Off

Serifs, sans serifs and… scripts. In theory not a bad typographic palette to play with, but when it comes to practice, the options are always far fewer. One member of that stylistic trio could never quite punch its weight. Over the last few years, however, we have seen something of a rebirth and revitalization of scripts, a category that once represented a care [...]

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How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body

Posted by Dan Reynolds on May 21, 2012 · Comments Off

What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes? The answer differs slightly, depending on whether one aims for print or Web-based environments. Nevertheless, there are certain features that most good text faces have in common. Familiarity with these helps to select the right fonts for a given project. This article presents [...]

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The Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries

Posted by Simon Loxley on May 14, 2012 · Comments Off

I had thought terms like “intellectual property” and “intellectual theft” were of fairly recent provenance, so my eye was caught by the latter’s use in a headline of a 1930 edition of the US trade journal The American Printer. The article it headed proved to be equally intriguing, a response by the president of American Type Founders (ATF) to a June 1929 [...]

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A Closer Look At Font Rendering

Posted by Tim Ahrens on April 24, 2012 · Comments Off

The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings along new challenges. Choosing and using a font is not merely a stylistic issue, and it’s worth having a look at how the technology comes into play. While we [...]

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