Tag Archives: typography

Improved handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in modern browsers using the text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; declaration. (without)AVAST (with) AVAST

Fontplore

28 Jul 2009 • #design, #interaction, #typography

Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print … Continue reading →

Cufón

23 Feb 2009 • #font, #sIFR, #typography, #web

Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. via About – cufon – GitHub.

Mad Men Typography

2 Feb 2009 • #mad men, #tv, #typography

I’m totally getting a NOEL JACKSON raised metal sign for my door. Just to let the Joan in the office know what’s up. Then there is the Gill Sans c. 1930 problem. Gill is used quite a lot in the … Continue reading →

Captcha, I hate you too.

3 Sep 2008 • #design, #geek, #typography, #usability, #web

At the heart of the game of cat-and-mouse played by bloggers and spammers is Captcha, purveyor of those staticky demands to enter the code exactly as shown above. via Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones

I heart FontShop

30 Apr 2008 • #creativity, #design, #fontfont, #fonts, #fontshop, #new standard, #typography

I love getting font foundry emails. FontFont recently sent me one with these two gems (oldies but goodies): Ayres Royal New Standard

Wrapup, Sakura Edition

18 Apr 2008 • #art, #buyit, #consuming, #culture, #daft punk, #design, #geek, #helicopters, #jenna jameson, #media, #movies, #Music, #photography, #sakura, #technology, #typography, #web, #zombies

Sakura, is what the Japanese call cherry blossom trees. Jeff has a gallery of his adventures during Sakura season over on his blog. Matt alerted me that the myth about the slow-boild frog, is false. Zombie Strippers! [trailer] An advertisement … Continue reading →

Björk

8 Apr 2008 • #björk, #branding, #creativity, #design, #inspiration, #media, #Music, #typography, #video

She’s on “the Facebook” now. She’s also got this ridiculous video for Wanderlust. Her graphic designer is a king at modern typography, hence his domain name: http://www.moderntypography.com/ What does Björk not do to the nines?

SEED Conference & Classic Typography

4 Apr 2008 • #coudal, #design, #inspiration, #typography

Classic typography is being used quite cunningly by, what appears to be, a Coudal designed, SEED Conference Website. It pulls on old style typsetting. Using, to great affect on Readability, all forms of typographic style, for example, using italics for … Continue reading →

Captioning Sucks! Comic Sans does too!

1 Apr 2008 • #art, #captioning, #creativity, #design, #eight6, #experiences, #geek, #inspiration, #joe clark, #open & closed, #typography, #web

Captioning Sucks! is a microsite about captioning, and why it sucks! Joe Clark approached me to design and build the site. His request: “garish and vulgar.” So, eight6 went to town. It was an odd request, and an awkwardly challenging … Continue reading →