The David Hadash™ family is as beautiful as it is ageless. This even-textured, clear – and truly beautiful typeface is a painstaking digital revival of Ismar David’s iconic early 1950s designs. Scholars, historians, and just about anyone who sets or reads Hebrew script will delight in this new release from Monotype Imaging.
Posted: 28 February 2012
The four issues of U&lc, Volume Seventeen, were published in 1990; a year that presented graphic designers with unanswered questions about the future of typographic communication – and one that marked ITC’s twentieth anniversary. Among a great crop of articles on everything from Japanese kites to the Vigeland Sculpture Park, two new typeface families were announced in Volume Seventeen and the lives of a pair typographers that changed the course of British typographic history were explored.
Posted: 27 February 2012
Here’s a ranked listing of Fonts.com Web Fonts’ top 100 most used Web fonts for January 2012
Posted: 10 February 2012
I saw a delightful film last night. It was insightful, humorous, poignant – and downright entertaining. The film was about a machine that revolutionized graphic communication, changed society in profound ways, and ushered in new heights in literacy.
Posted: 8 February 2012
If your lover gets more excited by contextual alternates than flowers and chocolate, take a look at these design-oriented gifts this Valentine’s Day. Guaranteed to tighten the kerning between you and your mate. LOVE Print by Robert IndianaRobert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE” image has appeared all over, most notably in Philadelphia’s JFK Plaza. The image, featuring hand-drawn […]
Posted: 7 February 2012
Last year, 2011, was the year that Web typography finally came of age as Web fonts have grown in popularity. The history of Web design has been full of inspiration and innovation, but little of that has been around typography, in large part due to the lack of font choices available. To be sure, typography is about far more than just the font, but when you only have five fonts to choose from for most of your work, imagine a culinary world where you could only choose from five ingredients.
Posted: 31 January 2012
Who says fonts aren’t newsworthy? Last year we had a little fun on April 1 and chose that date to announce the new Comic Sans® Pro font family. Recently we learned that this particular release placed number six on the list of top 20 most-viewed press releases for BusinessWire.com during 2011. Yes, the Comic Sans Pro press release […]
Posted: 27 January 2012
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.
Posted: 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.
Posted: 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 […]