Damian’s notes

Arial is a knock-off of designers’ favourite Helvetica which is ubiquitous because bundled with Microsoft Windows. Here’s a detailed history & critique by Mark Simonson

The Scourge of Arial - Mark Simonson

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 month ago.

Transcribed version of a lecture by Luc(as) de Groot on ways to approach the design of the then newly added character U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S (capital ß, or ẞ), starting with a discussion of the origins of the lowercase version.

(Via @jenskutilek on Twitter)

The shape of the new 1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S | LucasFonts At the October 2018 Berlin Typostammtisch, Luc(as) gave a presentation about the capital eszett, past and present. Have look at what he had to say!

Noted by Damian Cugley 4 months ago.

Word lists for testing typeface designs developed by Hoefler & Co.

(Via Typophile on Twitter)

Fonts by Hoefler&Co. H&Co designs fonts for print, web, and mobile environments.

Noted by Damian Cugley 11 months ago.

Letterform Archive is a museum of typography and type design in San Francisco and now has an online archive.

(Via The Online Archive Is Now Open to All via Brand New: Letterform Archive Online)

Home

Noted by Damian Cugley 11 months, 1 week ago.

James Edmondson’s exuberant typeface Ohno Blazeface reviewed by Mark Simonson

(Via Typographica on Twitter)

Ohno Blazeface I picture five-year-old James Edmondson, sitting on the floor of his dad’s graphic design studio back in the early 1990s, poring over vintage Letraset catalogs and copies of U&lc from the 1970s, absorbing it all like a sponge.

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 2 months ago.

Discórdia is a serif face with a bold that is slightly reverse stress and an italic that has no stress, all of which combine quite harmoniously despite their contrasts. The bold italic is a surprise outlier, with a kind of inside-out stress.

Discórdia by Naipe - Future Fonts Discórdia is a type-family of contrasting contrasts. Each of the four members of the family has a different contrast type. Regular has broad-nib contrast, Bold has horizontal contrast, the Italic is monoline, which means it has no apparent contrast, and Bold Italic is... Well, it’s probably best if see for yourself. These different design structures were fine-tuned to work well together in the same line, creating emphasis and hierarchy through a mini-super-family that groups a wedge-serif Regular, a slab-serif Bold and a sans-serify Italic. B A C K G R O U N D Designed by Álvaro Franca (www.alvarofran.ca), Discórdia started out at the Advanced Typography MA program at EINA (https://www.eina.cat/en/postgraus/master-en-tipografia-avancada), in Barcelona 🇪🇸 Developed originally for use in magazines, the goal was to create a concise text family that blurred the lines of type classification, mixing things that normally don’t go together but which could be persuaded to play nice this one time. 🎉 We are happy to report that Discórdia was a selected project in the 8th Tipos Latinos (https://www.tiposlatinos.com/) Biennal of Latin-American Type Design! 🎉

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 2 months ago.

Read Naked (2002) is a type specimen of Sauna, and also a book about the world of saunas.

(Via Underware on Twitter)

https://underware.nl/publications/read_naked/

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 3 months ago.

Obviously is a warm and workmanlike sanserif typeface family with a ridiculous 96 styles. Here’s James Edmondson describing the journey to completing this mammoth task.

The Process of Obviously | OH no Type Company OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 6 months ago.

New font family collaboration between Vulf Records and OH no Type Co.: Vulf Sans, complete with super-cool introductory video.

(Via OH no Type Co on Twitter)

The Process of Vulf Sans | OH no Type Company OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 9 months ago.