Typography

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 at Typographica

One of the best annual wrap-ups returns after a hiatus in 2009-10, Our Favorite Typefaces, from Typographica. Welcome back!

Nov 28

Kafkaesque

These upcoming Kafka covers by Peter Mendelsund are really lovely. These beautiful stark shapes and colors make them unexpected, but also totally on the mark.

Nov 04

Chevrolet Speedometer Design

A lovely gallery of Chevy speedometer designs over the years.

Oct 26

Kern and Shape Type

Just in case you were under the impression that type design or typography are easy.

Oct 20

New Browsing UI at Typekit

We just launched something over at Typekit that we’ve been working on for some time, a brand new interface for browsing our type library.

Sep 27

Branding 10,000 Lakes

One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Every day.

Sep 19

Illusory Typography

Stephen Doyle’s beautiful type illusions from this past weekend’s New York Times Magazine.

Sep 01

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.

Aug 31

Sanborn Map Company

Beautiful lettering from old fire insurance maps, courtesy of Christian Annyas. Totally not boring, I promise.

Aug 29

Off Book, Episode 2

In episode 2 of the PBS documentary series Off Book they take a look at the importance of typography.

Aug 23

Jacqui Oakley

Check out some of this gorgeous work from Toronto illustrator, Jacqui Oakley.

Aug 15

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.

Aug 01

About Face

About Face, a new article series I’m writing over at the Typekit Blog where we’ll look at the details behind a typeface and try to crack what makes it special.