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FF DIN Round

FontShop just released FF DIN Round, a nice con­trast to Albert-Jan Pool’s ini­tial remake of the old Ger­man stan­dard type­face DIN 1451.

WANTED: Graphic Designers + a Ruby or Python Programmer

I’m search­ing for tal­ent to fill five posi­tions: (1) a full time graph­ic design­er (web & print), (2) a con­tract or free­lance graph­ic design­er (web & print), (3) a con­tract or free­lance pack­age design­er, (4) a free agent graph­ic design­er (web & mobile), and (5) a free agent Ruby...

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Times New… Mompen?

The his­to­ry books will tell you that Times New Roman was designed by Stan­ley Mori­son. Mike Park­er aims to rewrite that his­to­ry…

TDR Giveaway

Win a signed copy of the Typo­graph­ic Desk Ref­er­ence by fol­low­ing me on Twit­ter and Tweet­ing #TDRme

Webponce’s Visual Dictionary

Launched in Feb­ru­ary 2006, The Visu­al Dic­tio­nary is a mas­sive col­lec­tion of search­able user sub­mit­ted typo­graph­ic pho­tographs with over 7,500 images of over 4,000 words.

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US Ration Coupons 1942–1945

Duke Uni­ver­si­ty’s Ration Coupons on the Home Front shows how the US gov­ern­ment con­trolled and con­served vehi­cles, type­writ­ers, sug­ar, shoes, fuel, and food from 1942–1945.

Typekit Gets A Round

San Fran­cis­co, Calif. — June 24, 2009 — Small Batch Inc. announced today that they have secured a round of equi­ty fund­ing from a group of investors led by San Fran­cis­co-based True Ven­tures. Small Batch is devel­op­ing Type­kit, a ser­vice enabling design­ers to build sites with web-native typog­ra­phy.

Obama’s Art with Dumb-Quote

The Oba­ma’s are redec­o­rat­ing the White House walls. Ed Ruscha’s “I Think I’ll…” (1983) (shown above) was one of the pieces select­ed for place­ment. It was bor­rowed from the Nation­al Gallery. Typog­ra­phers and graph­ic design­ers can spot this work’s short­com­ing with a deep root­ed embar­rass­ment. There’s an error with...

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Tare Lugnt’s Latest Issue – Tattooed

The lat­est issue of Marc Ström­berg’s mag­a­zine Tare Lugnt has been tat­tooed on his leg. Large-scale prints will go on dis­play in Göte­borg and Stock­holm this month. More info at the Wall Street Jour­nal and the Tare Lugnt site.

Tare Lugnt’s Latest Issue – Tattooed

The lat­est issue of Marc Ström­berg’s mag­a­zine Tare Lugnt has been tat­tooed on his leg. Large-scale prints will go on dis­play in Göte­borg and Stock­holm this month. More info at the Wall Street Jour­nal and the Tare Lugnt site.

TDR at The TDC in NYC

I’ll be sign­ing copies of The Typo­graph­ic Desk Ref­er­ence at the inau­gur­al Type Direc­tors Club Book Fair May 29th – 30th…

Type Geek Space Craft

I’ll be speak­ing about set­ting type and some fin­er points of pro­por­tion and space next Thurs­day April 29th at the Atlanta Web Design Group meet­ing…

Typographic Keyboard Layout

Typ­ing ×, or any oth­er spe­cial char­ac­ter, takes a frac­tion of the time it used to with Ilya Birman’s Typog­ra­phy Key­board Lay­out. Beware it will adjust some key­board short­cuts, but switch­ing back to your old lay­out will fix it. Link via mul­ti­ple sources

How to Host an Event

The Typo­graph­ic Desk Ref­er­ence release par­ty was a suc­cess. Thanks to every­one who was able to make it and to those who sent emails, texts, tweets, and voice­mails in lieu…

Helvetica Moleskine

If only Swiss bank accounts were what they used to be, I’d go old school and keep record in one of these Hel­veti­ca Mole­sk­ines. Link via i love typog­ra­phy → nubbytwiglet.com

TDR Book Release Party

Join us to cel­e­brate the release of The Typo­graph­ic Desk Ref­er­ence, Fri­day March 20th, 5:30 – 9:00 pm at Atlanta’s (con­text)…

Died Young, Stayed Pretty

A doc­u­men­tary on the North Amer­i­can under­ground poster cul­ture, Died Young, Stayed Pret­ty is Pro­duced, Direct­ed, shot, and Edit­ed by Eileen Yaghoobian. Looks good.

Typenuts

John from I Love Typog­ra­phy has put togeth­er Type­nuts: a site where you can down­load and sub­mit typo­graph­ic desk­top and iPhone wall­pa­pers.

Calling All Gridniks

Anto­nio Caru­sone (AisleOne) along with Duane King (Think­ing for a Liv­ing) offer an excel­lent resource on the typo­graph­ic grid. Rid your post­mod­ern habits at The Grid Sys­tem.

Gepostet von Stani’s €5 Font

The Dutch Min­istry of Finance orga­nized an archi­tec­ture com­pe­ti­tion for which a select­ed group of archi­tec­tur­al offices and artists were invit­ed to design a 5 euro coin around the con­cept of “Nether­lands and Archi­tec­ture.” Gepostet von Stani’s win­ning design ren­ders the tra­di­tion­al por­trait of the queen with a list of...

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Gepostet von Stani’s €5 Font

The Dutch Min­istry of Finance orga­nized an archi­tec­ture com­pe­ti­tion for which a select­ed group of archi­tec­tur­al offices and artists were invit­ed to design a 5 euro coin around the con­cept of “Nether­lands and Archi­tec­ture.” Gepostet von Stani’s win­ning design ren­ders the tra­di­tion­al por­trait of the queen with a list of...

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MetaSerif

We’re anx­ious­ly await­ing the release of Meta Serif, the com­pan­ion face to Erik Spiek­er­man­n’s epic Meta.

Helvetica, The Movie

Hel­veti­ca is a fea­ture-length inde­pen­dent film about typog­ra­phy, graph­ic design and glob­al visu­al cul­ture. The film was shot in high-def­i­n­i­tion on loca­tion in the Unit­ed States, Eng­land, the Nether­lands, Ger­many, Switzer­land, France and Bel­gium. It is cur­rent­ly in post-pro­duc­tion and is slat­ed to begin screen­ing at film fes­ti­vals world­wide...

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The Thermochromic Egg

The UK’s Lion Qual­i­ty is to start pro­duc­ing eggs with tem­per­a­ture-sen­si­tive ther­mochromic print to let you know when it’s cooked soft, medi­um or hard-boiled.

De Morgen Redesigns, from Tabloid to Berliner

Bel­gian’s broad­sheet De Morgen—won Europe’s best designed news­pa­per in 2004—gets a redesign to a larg­er for­mat with full col­or and new typog­ra­phy. The new type­faces are Gotham for sec­tion head­ers and the flag, Capi­toli­um for head­lines and body text, and ITC Con­duit for sum­ma­ry decks, pho­to cred­its, graph­ics, etc. Link:...

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Call for Entries: Iranian Proverbs

5th Col­or orga­nizes Iran­ian Say­ings, The Third Iran­ian Typog­ra­phy Exhi­bi­tion 2006. It will be held at the Tehran Gallery, Fac­ul­ty of Fine Arts, Uni­ver­si­ty of Tehran on June 8–21, 2006. Call for entries link

RIP Richard Eckersley

“Good design is the process of solv­ing the prob­lem posed by the man­u­script.” —Richard Eck­er­s­ley Richard Eck­er­s­ley, an award-win­ning graph­ic design­er who intro­duced uncon­ven­tion­al typog­ra­phy to staid-look­ing uni­ver­si­ty-press books, died on Sun­day at his home in Lin­coln, Neb. He was 65. — New York Times

Monotype Clones Frutiger For Microsoft

Microsoft will be using a font named Segoe UI, for their new Vista oper­at­ing sys­tem. Agfa Mono­type cre­at­ed Segoe UI for Microsoft. Agfa Mono­type claims to have designed it, but it’s actu­al­ly a copy with minor mod­i­fi­ca­tions of Lino­type­’s Frutiger Next font. In Jan­u­ary 2004 Microsoft applied to reg­is­ter mul­ti­ple...

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Ligatures

A lig­a­ture is a char­ac­ter con­sist­ing of one or more con­nect­ing let­ters. As in the graph­ic above, sauer­stoff­flaschen—the Ger­man word for oxy­gen tank—is the only word to con­tain the “fffl” lig­a­ture. It also con­tains the dec­o­ra­tive “st” lig­a­ture. Below are exam­ples of stan­dard and dec­o­ra­tive lig­a­tures. Let­ter pairs with their...

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Type Radio

From Under­ware comes Type Radio. Type Radio has MP3 radio streams and Pod­cast down­loads on top­ics of typog­ra­phy and design from Matthew Carter et al. (Link via Lau­rie Fore­hand)

The Double-Space Debate

So, what’s your opin­ion? A, B, or C? [A]   Two spaces after a peri­od is the prop­er way to set type. [B]   With the white space above the point, one space after a peri­od is all that’s need­ed. [C]   The phys­i­cal space after a peri­od should be thin­ner to...

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Daily Type

Very nice. So, how long can they keep it up? “Dai­ly Type is a cre­ative project run by four russ­ian type design­ers. Day by day, they cre­ate orig­i­nal type­faces and post their results along with rou­tine.”

Typophile Beta

The new Typophile web­site con­tains a “typowi­ki”. The Typophile Wiki is a “user-cre­at­ed ency­clo­pe­dia of all things type-relat­ed. Users cre­ate and edit Wiki entries with the aim of becom­ing a col­lab­o­ra­tive, use­ful and rel­e­vant resource.”

Typo.Graphic.Beirut 2005

Typo.Graphic.Beirut 2005 is the first of its kind with­in the Mid­dle East­’s graph­ic design com­mu­ni­ty, and will fea­ture more than 20 speak­ers con­tribut­ing to an atmos­phere of design thought and prac­tice from regions all over the world.

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Read Regular

Designed to assist dyslex­ic read­ers, Read Reg­u­lar is a type­face designed by Dutch design­er Natascha Fren­sch. Let­ter­forms like b and d are typ­i­cal­ly drawn as the same char­ac­ter and then just swapped. Read Reg­u­lar dif­fer­en­ti­ates these forms by mak­ing each unique.

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