Totally loving today: This video for Justice’s DVNO, designed by Machine Molle . It just gets better and better; wait for the very end. The very end. Totally loving today: This video for Justice’s DVNO, designed by Machine Molle. It just... 

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It was not a dark, stormy night at the H&FJ offices, and she was not a dame in a red dress who spelled trouble with a capital T. It was last Friday afternoon, and the caller was Bill Bastone, founder and editor of The Smoking Gun, with a question... 

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In the post of March 2007 it was suggested that existing brass matrices for big types could not have been struck with steel punches in so hard a hard metal as brass, but were probably reproductions cast in brass of strikes that had been made in lead... 

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My reputation compels me to deny that I ever spent adolescent weekends hanging out at Tannen’s Magic Shop or The Compleat Strategist, and I certainly never wasted sunny afternoons playing with the Ohio Scientific computer downstairs at Polk’s... 

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Three of my favorite things are big type , chromatic type , and type specimen books , and St. Patrick’s Day offers the perfect occasion to bring all three interests to the table, literally. Parked here at our conference table is the 1904 type specimen... 

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Writing about the glories of the nixie tube last December, I wondered aloud whether there’s anyone alive who has any affection for the ubiquitous LED display . Today I have my answer. At RISD, BFA candidate Alvin Aronson has made the witty and... 

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One of the unsung features of Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) is Quick Look , a useful tool in the Finder that allows you to preview collections of files at a glance. It’s commonly used for images, but Quick Look turns out to be immensely... 

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My last post made passing mention of the pleasures of designing the paragraph mark, prompting one reader to rightly ask, “how much fun can it really be to draw a backwards P?” No more fun than it is to draw the rest of that font you’re... 

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The designers at H&FJ are often asked if there are particular letters that we especially enjoy drawing. Office doodles testify to the popularity of the letter R , perhaps because it synopsizes the rest of the alphabet in one convenient package (it’s... 

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