Damian’s notes

Kris Sowersby on the design process for American Gothic, his revival of the venerable Franklin Gothic family of the early 1900s. This essay includes a discussion of the importance and ubiquity of Franklin Gothic, and is presented as a typographical tour-de-force, and looks amazing full-screen on a large monitor.
- Klim Type Foundry • American Grotesk design information American Grotesk® is a reprisal of Franklin Gothic, which has staked its place as a key part of American graphic vernacular history, notably in persuasive communication. American Grotesk® appears in a time when truths, half-truths, lies, fiction, or entertainment seem interchangeable, resulting in a culture of personal truths.
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 months, 2 weeks ago.
Illustrated article about Photo-Lettering, Inc., focussing on the ten women listed among the 252 names in the 1971 edition of Photo-Lettering’s One Line Manual of Styles.

(Via Dan Reynolds (@typeoff@typo.social))
- From the Collection: The Women of Photo-Lettering - Letterform Archive Guest researcher Anne Galperin reveals unsung contributions to a major sourcebook of mid-twentieth-century type design.
Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 9 months ago.
Typeface based on the Doves Press metal type, clandestinely thrown in to River Thames in 1917 and largely recovered from river almost 100 years later. Interested to see the display variant is based on the metal type itself and the text variant on the softer, slightly heavier shapes made on the paper in letterpress printing.
- Doves Type: Revisited | Typespec
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 7 months ago.
Toshi Omagari, a Japanese type designer and gamer based in London, made his own Noordzij cube, with a twist. Gerrit Noordzij’s cube illustrates an idea of type design with repetitions of the letter ‘e’ varying along three design axes. Omagari’s twist is making it a 5×5×5 Rubik’s cube.

(Via @atypi on Twitter)
- Toshi Omagari | Rubik’s Noordzij Cubes Type: Personal project Year: 2015–16
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 1 month ago.
Type & Media graduates for 2020

(Via @typemedia on Twitter)
- Type and Media 2020 Type and Media is a type design master at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. These are the final projects of 2020.
Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 9 months ago.
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 4 years, 3 months ago.
- Arial
- type design
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 years, 6 months ago.
- eszett
- German
- sharp S
- type design
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 5 years, 1 month ago.
- type design
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 5 years, 1 month ago.
- gallery
- San Fransisco
- type design
- typography
- USA

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