Mar
22
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 designers to contribute to a themed font. Previous Font Aids have included typefaces comprised entirely of ampersands and another consisting of only fleurons. The latest Font Aid, called Made For Japan, is a face consisting of glyphs representing their designers interpretations of Japan.
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Dec
14
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 the final product will be.
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Nov
03
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 2 thousand and 11 individual keyboard keys! Each month, day and date will be documented in the work as shown in the image below.
The resulting entire years worth of layout will be photographed and then be purchasable as B0 wall sized prints!
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Sep
14
At long last the working font of Gridface Facist is available. Here for a potentially limited time (depends how popular it proves to be), is the free download of the Mac OTF font for Gridface Facist.
Download Gridface Facist here. The zip file contains 2 weights (Gridface Facist and Gridface Facist Stroker), plus a large format A3 specimen sheets with size / leading recommendations for each.
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Apr
03
… and just when you thought the lesson in understanding the anatomical names of typeface ‘parts’ had finished! Here is part 2 of the exercise.
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