Gavin Rothery
The site of Gavin Rothery, the visual effects supervisor from the excellent 2009 film Moon, is my new favorite blog.
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Who invented the high five?
The origin of the high five is as mysterious as it is timeless. “So I reached up and hit his hand. It seemed like the thing to do.”
Wood Type Revival
Wood Type Revival seeks to acquire and release ten fonts of rare historic wood type representing faces that are not available in the world of digital typography.
Sanborn Map Company
Beautiful lettering from old fire insurance maps, courtesy of Christian Annyas. Totally not boring, I promise.
Who really designed Times New Roman?
There’s strong evidence that Times New Roman wasn’t designed by Stanley Morison, but by William Starling Burgess, a wooden boat designer from Boston.
About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography