Recent
Some Typography Posts.
-
DIY dingbats
Build your own custom web typeface using from 650 icons for a reasonable cost
-
Modern Pictograms
Another dingbat typeface designed for the web's visual vocabulary circa 2012
-
Web Symbols typeface
Free collection of nicely designed dingbats for today's web
-
Relative digital type size
Ethan Marcotte makes a potentially deeply technical web design topic accessible and educational
-
Future comes to the web
Typekit unveils a web licence for the most modern of all type families
-
Scale & Rhythm
Online tool and essay on setting type nicely online
-
Lettering.js
I kern has this?
-
Origins of the alphabet
Stunningly designed and well-researched narrative on the origins of the Latin alphabet
-
Chinese movable type
An overview of how movable type was used commercially up until the past few decades
-
optimizeLegibility extension
Jim Ray creates a simple Safari extension to improve how type is rendered on page
-
Proportional leading, fluid line length
Using msnbc.com's new design to talk about a way to improve typography
-
Notes on typography
Seventy years ago, Vanity Fair announced it has toned down its experiment with Modernism
-
Hyphenation online
A seemingly easy way to justify, and nicely hyphenate, text online
-
The last typewriter repairmen
Photo essay on about a waning trade, some good lessons to be found in the index typewriter, too
-
Typeface
Overview of an interesting documentary about the Hamilton wood type factory and the legacy of letterpress
-
font-face rendering
Nice flow chart showing how and why different browsers and operating systems display type
-
Typekit releases its type loader
Now any site can deliver custom fonts to its audience using the same fallback techniques as Typekit
-
Google does Web fonts
Google introduces a new API to embed a narrow selection of Web-friendly fonts
-
Typekit design gallery
Collection of sites showcasing type-heavy design using Typekit's fonts
-
The New Typography
MoMA's online collection of for its exhibit on the groundbreaking information design movement
-
Where Microsoft beats Apple
Joe Clark aims his immeasurable knowledge of type straight at the company loved by designers
View all (it might be a looong page, though)