After a long hiatus (inexcusably skipping 2009 and ’10) we’re back with our annual review of the year in type.
Category Archive: متفرقات
Jan 25
Chartwell
Chartwell is a set of three fonts that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type.
Jan 25
Chartwell
Chartwell is a set of three fonts that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type. In use, the fonts are pretty straightforward, and though it’s an overused phrase, it does feel rather magical: you type numbers, it creates graphics
Sep 22
اردو ایڈیٹر بک مارکلٹ
اردو ایڈیٹر بک مارکلٹ کے استعمال سے آپ گوگل، فیس بک وغیرہ کسی بھی ویب سائٹ پر اردو لکھ سکتے ہیں، اردو ایڈیٹر بک مارکلٹ کچھ اس ایڈیٹر کے بارے میں اردو ایڈیٹر بک ماکلٹ کا طریقہ استعمال انٹر نیٹ ایکسپلورر کے صارفین کیا کریں؟. فائر فاکس کے صارفین کے لیے طریقہ استعمال گوگل کروم …
Sep 17
Explorations in Typography: Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting
As someone who works with typography and design every day, I have a few books I turn to when I need to clear my mind of clutter. One of my favorites is Robert Bringhurst’s “The Elements of Typographic Style”, which includes this rumination on the sanctity of the title page: “Think of the blank page …
Sep 17
The State of Webfont Quality from a Type Designer’s View
The rendering issue, at least at text sizes, is not going to go away anytime soon. As it’s been pointed out, the naivety of some designers, coupled with the marketing motivations of webfont services and distributors, does not bode well for the readership. The bandwagon has left, with everyone on board, but not realizing it’s …
Sep 17
Where Are the Women in Type Design?
Being one of the rare type designers who happen to be female, I occasionally get this question from other (mostly male) designers. It’s difficult to find other female designers with whom to exchange experiences and share knowledge. The most common explanation is that type design is a “technical” profession. This is rubbish. Yes, font production …
Sep 17
“Cure for the Common Font” — A Web Designer’s Introduction to Typeface Selection
Last week, I joined Frank Chimero, Tiffany Wardle, and Jason Santa Maria for a panel at the SXSW conference. Now that web designers suddenly face the challenge (and delight) of choosing fonts from an ever-growing selection, we thought it’s a good time to recommend some basic principles for making wise type choices. The slides from …
Sep 17
Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer
Jan Tschichold embraced extremes. His work, most notably “Die Neue Typographie”, embraced and defined modernist typographic ideas. At his most provocative Tschichold only condoned the use of sans serif type. Later in his life he condemned his own pro-modernist stances as too militaristic, comparing them to the thinking of the Nazis which compelled Tschichold to …
Sep 17
The Webfont Revolution Is Over, Let the Evolution Begin
It feels like this war has been raging for ages, but we’re still in the very early years of type on the web. When we look back on this moment — from the day the first webfont service launched to the imminent standardization of WOFF as a webfont file format — it will be but an em …