Norman Hathaway reviews Roger Black’s work for Rolling Stone.Blair Thomson interviews Phil Garnham for Typetoken.In the unlikely event that your Typekit-related world seems to come crashing down, be sure to check the new Typekit status site.Fontdeck explains how to use media queries with webfonts.Heavier and far less portable is this TV-based typeface by Jack Archer.Kristyan Sarkis discusses the intricacies of Arabic calligraphy and type design.Waiting for something? Card games help pass the time, and now you can do it in Swiss style with Helveticards.With this ring, I thee lead! Underware has launched TypeRings.Do you know where you’re going? These East German traffic sign typefaces can help point the way.To catch up with what’s been happening, be sure to check out Dan Reynolds’ coverage. When you’re all ready to print or otherwise publish your work, it would probably be wise to consult this handy new typographic checklist from the Type Studio.īlissed out yet? Well, then, be sure to check out the rest of this week’s news: And to get a better sense of a typeface for your own purposes, you could try out the beta of FontShop’s new custom sample toolbar.
To find related typefaces, you might use Veer’s new font finder. Dan Mall has some great advice in this regard. With this incessant deluge of new typefaces, it’s always more difficult to settle on the perfect type for a project.
And we weren’t kidding about comprehensive … this type system is comprised of a whopping 420 fonts in all. Elementar brings unheard of flexibility to screen fonts by allowing the user to explore and choose amongst height, weight, width, style, contrast, and curious element parameters.
When we came across Elementar, Gustavo Ferreira’s “parametric” pixel font, we were simply blown away by its comprehensiveness and execution.
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