By Martin Wenzel When designing a typeface, I prefer to explore a construction principle rather than revive an existing typeface idea.
By Martin Wenzel
When designing a typeface, I prefer to explore a construction principle rather than revive an existing...
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Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). However you may be more familiar with the world’s-tallest-tower-building, 7-star-hotel-opening, artificial-islands-in-the...
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Four fonts—found on a map of America, created by the spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez and the dutch engraver Hieronymus Cock anno 1562. Here is what designer Sebastian Nagel says about his typeface: “When I—by chance—in 2004 discovered the...
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Some typefaces have films made about them (Helvetica), some typefaces are ridiculed (Comic Sans) and others appear from nowhere and gather momentum like Cumulus & Foam, the typeface pictured that has gradually been gathering attention across the...
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by Carl Crossgrove A biome in nature is essentially an ecosystem.
by Carl Crossgrove
A biome in nature is essentially an ecosystem. It’s also the name for my new typeface family. The 14-weight Biome™ Wide family is now available on fonts.com....
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By Paul Dijstelberge M OVABLE TYPE : perhaps nowadays few will know the exact meaning of these two words, but until the middle of the twentieth century a letter was a small piece of lead, and to use it for printing you literally had to move it around,...
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The newest issue of the Slanted magazine—its tenth—is entitled “ Heavy Metal. Lovers .” Devoted to blackletter type, it is naturally a collection the absolute coolest elements in typography today. My love affair with blackletter runs...
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By Gerry Leonidas Teaching on a postgraduate course feels very much like a spiral: the annual repetition of projects, each a vehicle for a journey of education and discovery for the student, blurs into cyclical clouds of shapes, paragraphs, and personalities....
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Almost since my first visit to France I have been delighted by the look of the improvised public notices that are made with stencils, pochoirs, or (to use a more old-fashioned term) lettres à jour – letters pierced in metal that let the daylight show...
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I guess now and again I can promote some of my own work — hey, it’s what keeps me from writing articles for Ministry of Type all the time, and this piece draws together a number of themes I’ve written about before here so it feels pretty...
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