Posts tagged with typography
Laurel Schwult’s Instructions for a Typeface.
If I use these to generate slanted type, can I call them Oblique Strategies?
Verdana on a Pedestal
MOMA has just acquired 23 new digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design collection. Hoefler & Frere-Jones are responsible for five of the these.
The full list:
- American Type Founders OCR-A (1966)
- Wim Crouwel New Alphabet (1967)
- Matthew Carter Bell Centennial (1976-78)
- Matthew Carter ITC Galliard (1978)
- Erik Spiekermann FF Meta (1984-1991)
- Zuzana Licko Oakland (1985)
- Jeffery Keedy Keedy Sans (1991)
- Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum FF Beowolf (1990)
- Barry Deck Template Gothic (1990)
- P. Scott Makela Dead History (1990)
- Jonathan Hoefler HTF Didot (1991)
- Neville Brody FF Blur (1992)
- Jonathan Barnbrook Mason (1992)
- Matthew Carter Mantinia (1993)
- Tobias Frere-Jones Interstate (1993-95)
- Matthew Carter Big Caslon (1994)
- Albert-Jan Pool FF DIN (1995)
- Matthew Carter Walker (1995)
- Matthew Carter Verdana (1996)
- Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones Mercury (1996)
- Matthew Carter Miller (1997)
- Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones Retina (1999)
- Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones Gotham (2000)
On the inclusion of the Emigre-era fonts, Paola Antonell writes:
Walker, Meta, Blur, Keedy Sans, Mason, and Template Gothic are all faces that represent a specific era in the digital revolution—the early 1990s, when digital typography was coming into its own. They were chosen based upon their importance to cultural history as well as their experimental aesthetics.
This is timed quite nicely with the launch of David Carson’s new magazine. Are we poised for an early 1990’s design revival?
1) Load a web page 2) Change the font to wingdings 3) Spray paint half your screen black
You have just launched a David Carson on the web revival.
6 Matthew Carter entries, which is appropriate because Matthew Carter is probably responsible for more of the letterforms seen by Westerners on a daily basis than any other person.
No MICRs like E-13B or CMC-7?
Heiden Hotel
Michael Kenna, Heiden Hotel, 1978.
See also: Classic Catskills, Borscht Belt, more Heiden photos, Sweet Lorraine, and up in flames.
HEMPIRE.
Gelb
Peter Nencini’s Gelb, in his own words:
Gelb is a growing image kit, a kind of ode to Berlin. Only been once but it crept up on me in a way which had nothing to do with museums, landmarks and other city fodder.
I loved the sensation of neither stepping up nor down to enter a subway train (unusual for a Londoner) and the fact that they ran for 24 hours. So there was total fluency in transit and therefore the feeling of constant movement through the space. This was stabilised in the memory by colour and form, especially hues around oxide-to-mustard yellow and duck-egg-verdigris. So I’m sourcing and collecting found coloured papers to create some lived-in, dissonant colour palette as a page-ground. The ingredients’ line character is something to do with corruptions of the DIN standardized typeface throughout the cityscape and modernist U-Bahn clocks with over-ornamental replacement hands. This character has then been applied to anonymised forms peppered from memory of food, building, temperature, surface and so on.
Can this possibly be true? This guy says that the iPad’s iBooks app can’t draw type ragged right, it’s justified only. That seems insane for an ebook app developed by Apple.
(⇒ via HN)
Pearson Does McCarthy
Designed by David Pearson, whom you may remember from this cover.
(⇒ via caustic cover critic)
Art Kane Letterhead
Amassblog does it again with a selection of letterheads, among them this Herb Lubalin designed piece for Art Kane.
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