You may notice something different in the last two issues of U&lc Volume Sixteen. The table of contents, that normally ran on page one of each issue, is moved back several pages to make way for advertising. Letraset, primarily known as the premier provider of dry transfer lettering the 1970s and 1980s, had acquired ITC just a couple of years earlier – and the ads were for the company’s new line of design software and plug-ins.
Volume 16 — Something New And More Of The Same Great Stuff 27 January 2012
Customer Spotlight: Club Nintendo 19 January 2012
Club Nintendo is a rewards program for Nintendo players and enthusiasts. Members earn “coins” that can be exchanged for games, downloads and other goodies by registering products and taking surveys.
Web Fonts: The Need to Know Basics 17 January 2012
As moderator of a recent AIGA Chicago panel, “The New Web Typography,” I was reminded of how many designers and developers are still looking for a quick primer on Web font basics. If you were one of the 120 designers in attendance, then you heard from the diverse range of panelists about the need to […]
Monotype Imaging and Google Collaborate to Make Web Fonts Better 9 January 2012
Monotype Imaging’s Fonts.com Web Fonts team and Google have been brainstorming ways to make Web fonts better. Our main focus has been on file size. The idea is simple. Smaller Web fonts are faster Web fonts. Faster is better. Looking to reduce Web font file sizes, the Google Web Fonts team began working closely with […]
Top 100 Web Fonts for December 2011 5 January 2012
Here’s a ranked listing of Fonts.com Web Fonts’ top 100 most used Web fonts for December 2011:
20,000+ Web Fonts 2 January 2012
This week our Web font development team achieved another impressive milestone. We now have over 20,000 fonts available through Fonts.com Web Fonts! All our Web font releases go through an exhaustive process to ensure that all Web fonts render properly in all browsers on different platforms. We manually review every font, and use a series of […]
U&lc Volume Fifteen — Color! 28 December 2011
After 14 years of issues in just black and white, in 1988, color finally appeared on the pages of U&lc. It was only used on the first and last four pages of the publication, and its implementation was pretty timid – but it was a start. There were also four typeface release announcements in U&lc’s Volume […]
Customer Spotlight: Celestial Seasonings 15 December 2011
Celestial Seasonings was born in 1969, long before the boon of all-natural foods and goods. Some 40 years later, the company has developed an extensive and popular line of all-natural herbal teas and is among the largest and most recognizable specialty tea manufacturers. Celestial Seasoning’s online home uses a large rotating carousel to showcase an assortment […]
Rabenau 15 December 2011
Axel Bertram’s Rabenau™ typeface family – over 20 years in the making – masterfully combines neoclassical, baroque and calligraphic design traditions. Rabenau is harmonious, versatile and rich in typographic refinement.
Bold Weight of Arial Unicode MS Makes its Debut 14 December 2011
If you’re a designer, developer or publisher and deal with multilingual text, chances are the Arial® Unicode™ MS design is your “go-to” font. With around 50,000 glyphs, this workhorse font supports almost every popular language or script used around the world. So if you need one font to display practically any language, you can depend […]