“If each company derives from an alchemy between people and techniques, the foundry of characters, whose heart is the engraving department, is an extraordinary example of skills and unequalled aesthetic sensitivity…”
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The Last Punchcutter
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Tobias Frere-Jones Breaking Things Deliberately
“When trying to figure out a problem, pause for minute, and see if you can make it worse. A structure can really describe itself as it falls apart.”
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Wanted: Freelance Type Designer
We’re looking for a freelance type designer to help refine a custom type family. Send us your work samples — we’d love to hear from you.
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Such Threes and Sixes, Eights and Nines?
Gelett Burgess wrote his mayor a poem about the city’s bad street sign typography. Mayor La Guardia responded in kind. Via New-York Historical Society
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Grafica Della Strada, The Signs Of Italy
It starts with a 16 year old Louise Fili traveling to Italy, stepping off the plane, and falling in love with a billboard. That moment marked the start of Fili’s typographic obsession, and budding career in graphic design.
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Fonts of the Homeless
Typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people in Barcelona. All proceeds go to the Arrels Foundation, an organization for the benefit of Barcelona’s homeless.
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Sign Painters: The Movie
Sign Painters celebrates the hand-painted sign industry, an American tradition.
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On Times New Roman
On one of the world’s most well known typefaces.
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The Making of Neon Signs
‘Every neon sign has a “start and stop position,” a point on each letter where a tube begins and ends.
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Type Rules! 4th Edition
The latest edition of Type Rules! is on the shelves and it was worth the wait.
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To Helvetica and Back – 77 Years
These typefaces were all essential to shaping Helvetica.
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Danish Typographic Style
In 2001 I attended the ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) conference in Copenhagen (København if you’re a Dane).
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The Castan Font by Carter Wong
This looks like it was a fun little project.
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The typographic work of Alex Fowkes for Sony Music
Alex Fowkes designed this great mural of Sony Music’s history, illustrated with mostly type.
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The Old Printing Office
The Old Printing Office by Frank Luther Mott is an account of Mott as a printer’s devil for his father’s small town weekly papers in Iowa.
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Book Life
It is amazing just how much text exists on the internet. More amazing still is the sheer amount of text that is unavailable.
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