You probably have at least one favourite typeface, and I’m pretty sure that you’re likely to favour a dozen or so others that you can happily deploy depending on context and use, of course.
Now some of your stable of old faithful faces will eventually amble quietly out to pasture beyond your studio [...]
Regular visitors might have noticed that Articles & Texticles has changed its appearance.
After a couple of years of using the lovely minimalist theme called “plaintxtblog” designed by Scott Wallick, I’ve now converted the site to a theme called “Shades of Gray” which is based on a very advanced sandbox design by, er, Scott Wallick.
Shades of [...]
One of the most popular posts (so far) on this blog is a piece I wroted and quoted about the Fedex Logo and its designer, Lindon Leader, way back in early September 2006.
Looking at my blog’s stats, I notice that over 16,000 people have stopped by to have a look at that one article [...]
Evening Landscape, Günther Reindorff, 1944
(Clickety, clickety to make it biggety!)
I think I came across this beautfully wistful mezzotint on Bukowski’s auction website. I can’t be precise because I was not using the researcher’s friend, ClipCache Pro at the time.
Google didn’t yield much on this Estonian artist apart from some rather badly scanned prints. An [...]
“Architec” Typeface. (Bigger versions of these pictures are available when you click on the thumbnails)
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise, but Hans Bacher has turned his hand to producing a few typefaces in his time.
“Tuscany” Typeface.
When I saw these faces, I had a sort of “Aha!” moment, which was rapidly supplanted [...]
For once, here’s a YouTube video with some intelligent comments appended to it. The subject is the Typography tutor at the old London College of Printing, David Dabner, or “Debner” as the slightly 1950’s style voice over artist pronounces it. The LCP is now known as the London College of Communication, and it’s [...]
Figaro; Primer Two Line Ancient; Eight Lines Elongated Sans Series No. 3
From “Typefaces You Won´t Recognise”, a series of witty postcards produced by Paul Belford for the London Type Museum.
Five Lines Pica No. 2; Anglo Saxon; Granby
Eight Lines French Antique No. 1; Seven Lines Open No. 1; Doric No. 3
Eight Lines Thorncliffe No. 2; Expanded [...]
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