The last five months have been pretty intense. Creating a 164-page magazine from scratch is an enormous project and, looking back, I’m happy that I was naïve enough to think it could be done. Along with href="http://twitter.com/carywood">Carolyn Wood and href="http://workingformat.com">Working Format we think we’ve created something very special indeed.
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I’d also like to thank href="http://mailchimp.com">MailChimp for their generous support. Now that the first issue of href="http://shop.codexmag.com/products/issue-1">Codex magazine is on its way to the printer, I can take a breather (a few days until work resumes on issue #2), and list here some of the type-related things that have been catching my eye. Yes, it has been a while, but here is the week — perhaps the month — in type.
I already have too many pictures and posters, but couldn’t resist buying this one (the one on the right):
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href="http://vimeo.com/19558725">fontface from href="http://vimeo.com/atipo">atipo on href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo.
Available from href="http://www.atipo.bigcartel.com/">atipo in Spain. And I almost forgot to mention that I’ve convinced atipo to give one away to an ILT reader. Just tell us why you want or need the poster and we’ll select a lucky winner. I will announce the winner on Monday via href="http://twitter.com/ilovetypography">twitter.
href="http://fittextjs.com/">FixText, a very clever jQuery plugin for resizing web type on the fly:
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Nice use of Font Bureau’s href="http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/Giza/">Giza and href="http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/GriffithGothic/">Griffith Gothic in Pentagram’s work for the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Hard to beat fat Egyptian numerals when they’re displayed at these sizes:
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Great to see href="http://ilovetypography.com/2008/05/01/face-to-face-an-interview-with-nadine-chahine/">Nadine Chahine’s custom type (Gebran2005) in the redesign of An-Nahar, Lebanon’s leading daily newspaper (left: before; right: after):
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Great new site from href="http://www.ableparris.com/">Able Parris. I’m a big fan of his collages:
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Long overdue, but looking great, and so much easier to navigate: the new href="https://www.fontfont.com/">FontFont site.
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A brief history of title design:
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href="http://vimeo.com/20759580">A Brief History of Title Design from href="http://vimeo.com/albo">Ian Albinson on href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo.
Two great href="http://typecamp.org/">Type Camps coming up. One in href="http://typecamp.org/california2011.html">California Wine Country (12–17 June 2011); the other held at the Bauhaus campus in Weimar! (30 July –4 August 2011). Places limited, so hurry.
Last chance to sign up for the href="http://legacyofletters.com/">Legacy of Letters tour. Eight days in Italy; eights days of type. You have until May 20th:
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Great to see type designers embracing dribble. Among them, French type design legend, href="http://dribbble.com/typofonderie">Jean François Porchez:
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Some beauties in these excerpts from Sanborn fire-insurance maps (wasn’t aware such things existed). Love this title-page:
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href="http://www.markdotto.com/2011/01/05/3d-text-using-just-css/">3D text using only CSS:/> class="noborder" href="http://www.markdotto.com/2011/01/05/3d-text-using-just-css/">src="http://cdn.ilovetypography.com/img/2011/05/3d-text.jpg" alt="" title="3d-text" width="500" height="300" class="pad" />
This looks fantastic. Yes, I know, it’s not about typography, but imagine the possibilities. Moving, animated, or so-called kinetic typography. Can’t wait to see it released. href="http://animatable.com/">Animatable:
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href="http://vimeo.com/22174448">A first look at Animatable from href="http://vimeo.com/malarkey">Andy Clarke on href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo.
Oliver Reichenstein asks ‘href="http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/business-class-news/">Business Class: Freemium for News?’ I’m wondering if there is a more appropriate analogy — something more analogous — but the concept is inspired.
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The Wood Type href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearded/new-digital-fonts-from-rare-letterpress-wood-type">Kickstarter project has almost met its funding goal:
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Show your support over at href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearded/new-digital-fonts-from-rare-letterpress-wood-type">Kickstarter. You can also download href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearded/new-digital-fonts-from-rare-letterpress-wood-type">Fatboy (a beta version of a wood type revival) for free. How could you not download a free font called Fatboy.
A new type specimen book from href="http://www.jblt.co/fonts/specimen">Jean-Baptiste Levée. 569 pages. 1.7 kg:
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New fonts
One of the latest additions to my own type library is Christian Schwartz’s href="http://www.linotype.com/808330/neuehaasgrotesk-family.html">Neue Haas Grotesk:
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Great range of weights. Particularly like the idea of the additional three weights drawn specifically for texts.
A new and very accomplished humanist sans serif from H&FJ. Meet href="http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100042">Ideal Sans:
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I have no idea if this will be available as a webfont when H&FJ launches its service, but I reckon it would prove very popular.
Igor Labudovic’s charming three-weight stencil type, href="http://offers.veer.com/click.track?CID=134842&AFID=138179&ADID=285787&url=http://marketplace.veer.com/images/FTT0000044">Brilliant:
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href="http://www.typonine.com/#/playground/glagolitic,/,/news/,/fonts/">Typonine Glagolitic, free to download from Typonine, in exchange for your email address. More information about the font in href="http://ministryoftype.co.uk/words/article/glagolitic/">Aegir’s 2008 article.
Read list
href="http://www.subtraction.com/2011/04/28/my-column-on-columns">My Column on Columns — Khoi Vinh/> href="http://typographica.org/2011/on-typography/the-state-of-webfont-quality-from-a-type-designers-view/">The State of Webfont Quality — Ross Mills/> href="http://futurebook.net/content/library-future-space-beyond-books">The library of the future — Marie McPartlin/> The type maker’s view of web fonts: href="http://blog.typekit.com/2011/04/13/the-type-makers-view-of-web-fonts-an-interview-with-tim-ahrens/">An interview with Tim Ahrens/> href="http://blog.fontdeck.com/post/4182224084">Fontsmith joins Fontdeck/> href="http://imprint.printmag.com/type/is-there-a-new-leading-man-in-hollywood/">Is There a New Leading Man in Hollywood? — Paul Shaw/> href="http://www.typo.cz/en/design-education-part-ii-gerry-leonidas/">Design Education, Part II: Gerry Leonidas/> href="http://blog.readability.com/2011/05/and-what-of-art-direction/">And what of art direction? — Richard Ziade
And, finally, I think this little company needs to work on their branding/typography/lettering/spelling:/> class="noborder" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pakgwei/4138396827/sizes/m/in/pool-87922704@N00/">src="http://cdn.ilovetypography.com/img/2011/05/4138396827_3943aceedf.jpg" alt="" title="ouch" width="500" height="334" class="pad" />
I guess there are many lessons in this: from pay a professional to don’t sign-write your van while drunk.
Part of the great href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/folktype/pool/with/4138396827/">Folk Typography Flickr pool, a selection of the weird, but sometimes wonderful.
Have a great week. And don’t forget to pre-order your copy of href="http://shop.codexmag.com/products/issue-1">Codex! 166 pages of type heaven.
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