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A Living Fossil on the 1 Line

A Living Fossil on the 1 Line

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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The Timeless Typography of Harper’s Bazaar

The Timeless Typography of Harper’s Bazaar

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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But Wait, There’s More:

But Wait, There’s More:

It’s too good . It’s too good. View original post here: But Wait, There’s More: ... 

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Love Letters from Plum Press

Love Letters from Plum Press

You can always tell when a typeface designer is involved. Some unseen force summoned me across the room to this beautiful set of greeting cards, resplendent in rich stochastic color, and bearing a wonderful assortment of letterforms You can always... 

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Fonts in Space

Fonts in Space

Our erstwhile language researcher and font developer Luke Joyner (not pictured) files this dispatch from the campus of the University of Chicago: A recent late-show at U. Chicago’s Doc Films was Plan 10 from Outer Space, a stinker of a B-movie... 

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Grecian Fonts: A Miscellany

Grecian Fonts: A Miscellany

I thought I’d bid farewell to H&FJ Greek Week with a glimpse inside some of our library’s more exotic type specimens. I thought I’d bid farewell to H&FJ Greek Week with a glimpse inside some of our library’s more... 

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Ode on a Grecian Kern

Ode on a Grecian Kern

Greek Week Continues! Like all good New Yorkers, we know how to respond to unattended packages: with deep dread and unbridled panic. Yet despite our daily diet of Orwellian public service announcements , a devil-may-care attitude moved someone at H&FJ... 

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My Big Fat Grecian Lettering

My Big Fat Grecian Lettering

Greek Week Continues! Making good on his standing promise to rid the world of enamel signs, and warehouse them in the office for our personal amusement, Tobias came across this little bit of heaven in a local antique shop. The full image features a stalwart... 

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The content of form

The content of form

I’ve been thinking lately about the complexity inherent to the process of abstraction, this in order to simplify the conceptualisation stage (of design). Interestingly, I’ve spent most of my time to study the basic shapes, this in order to focus... 

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Greek Week Continues

Greek Week Continues

Typeface: Acropolis Black Italic Right on the heels of yesterday’s post about Grecian italics comes this, a reminder that Swing University is back in session. Swing U , a production of Jazz at Lincoln Center, is a terrific series of courses directed... 

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