The snow-themed alphabets below all belong to the world of lettering rather than typography, but typefounders have made their share of snow-covered fonts as well. Some of these go back quite a bit further than I imagined, as I learned this afternoon:...
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Over at Saks Fifth Avenue , they’ve decked out their signature Gotham Medium in snowy finery for winter. The snowflake treatment is a nice counterpoint to the icicled Gotham below , conveying luxe rather than hypothermia; in any case, it’s...
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An office full of type designers is already a dangerous a breeding ground for the highly contagious chronic arrowmania , but H&FJ alumnus Kevin Dresser has taken things to the next level with the DresserJohnson Arrow Ring . A chic adaptation of...
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Christmas is about more than just eggnog and carols and sitting by the tree.
Christmas is about more than just eggnog and carols and sitting by the tree. It’s about having to explain to your family yet again what exactly it is that you do for...
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Robots have long been useful in completing challenging or hazardous tasks: dismantling explosives, assembling automobiles, winning chess tournaments, etc. Robotlab in Karlsruhe, Germany, is training them for another purpose: calligraphy
Robots have...
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Gertel’s Bakery , 1914-2007, died last week from complications arising out of escalating land prices, finally succumbing to demolition on November 2. It was 93
Gertel’s Bakery, 1914-2007, died last week from complications arising out of...
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Thanks to a few well-traveled blogs, this clip has been getting some traffic lately: it’s a segment about typeface design that ran on CBS Sunday Morning last summer, featuring us. Correspondent Russ Mitchell spent some time at H&FJ, and speaking...
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Photo: David W.
Photo: David W. Dunlap, The New York Times
Passing fancies in lettering often vanish without a trace, and no style has died a harder death than Art Nouveau. Even in its heyday, the style’s contributions to typography were slight:...
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ASME has announced its winners for Best Cover of 2007 , and we’re thrilled to see that of the six covers that feature typography, five are clients of H&FJ. You’ll see Chronicle on the cover of O, and our forthcoming Sentinel font on...
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