Font Aid V has arrived. Sadly every time there is a Font Aid event, this usually means that something fairly devastating has happened. In this case the catalyst for Font Aid V has been the recent and terrible events in Japan. In times of a Font Aid appeal, The Society of Typographic Aficionados organizes charitable [...]
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Author Archives: Jamie Homer
Book Review: Just My Type
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts Written by Simon Garfield (352 pages) Published by Profile Books (21 Oct 2010) I must confess I did struggle with the first chapter of Just My Type. That’s because it deals with Comic Sans, and I am an avid Comic Sans Hater! When I stopped for a moment [...]
Typographic Wall Calendar Update
Having been in touch with Harald just a couple of days ago, and watching very closely the progress of his Kickstarter project to create his unique Typographic Calendar for 2011; he has announced the successful raising of the required funding. This is obviously great news and many people have commented on how unique and fascinating [...]
Mobilising the Characters
I’m proud to announce the official launch of the mobile friendly version of the site. It’s been worked on for some time and is finally precise enough to launch to the world! That’s right, you can now get all your favourite typography reviews, content, resource and reference directly on your mobile device! What’s more, if [...]
Typographic Wall Calendar
I was very pleased when German typographer, Harald Geisler got in touch to tell me about his latest typographic venture, the Typographic Wall Calendar. But there’s a twist of course! It’s going to be constructed entirely from old computer keyboard keys – being that it’s for the year 2011, it will literally be made with [...]