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Le graphiste et créateur de caractères français Bruno Bernard expose son travail à l’occasion d’un accrochage commun avec la relieuse d’art Véronique Sala-Vidal.

Summer Discount #2 Flow

Hubert Jocham Design - 13 October, 2008 - 1:30am

#1 NewLibris
#2 Flow

Can’t pin this on H&FJ

Microsoft Typography News - 12 October, 2008 - 5:00pm

Article discusses and displays US presidential pins in Hebrew. No Hebrew support in Gotham? No problem.

ToDo: Convert LPs to MP3

Chez Porchez - 11 October, 2008 - 6:25am

by timsamoff, flickr

For years, I think about that, it wasn’t easy perhaps 5 years ago, now months after months it sound easier and better.

With 600 vinyls LPs on my cellar, mostly: Modern Soul, Northern Soul, Motown, Stax, etc. from which many are still not easy to find on ITMS, I strongly add this huge task on my already giant ToDo list.

LegauSans

Hubert Jocham Design - 10 October, 2008 - 10:50pm

The design of a typeface often takes a long way. You always start with a idea, maybe one element. Gradually it develops into a complex system of form and proportion. Sometimes the initial idea vanishes at some point.

Legau started as a redesign, but the final typeface is quite unique. That is the reason why I avoid to talk much about the stages of the development.

Legau has got quite some contrast. The end of the stroke is always vertical or horizontal and in most cases sharp.

LegauU with an upright or neoclassic angle in the round characters. It seems most organized and in control.
LegauA with an oldstyle stroke in the round characters. It seems naturally warm and caring.
LegauR with a flipped angle in the round characters. It seems disturbing and adventurous.

Every alternate lives in a different athmosphaere.

In copy you should not get heavier than Heavy. Extrabold and Ultrabold work best in display.

By the way:
The new typeface Verve I have published a few days ago, had to be renamed because there is already a font called Verve. Now it is called VerseSans and VerseSerif

Summer Discount

Hubert Jocham Design - 10 October, 2008 - 2:50pm

Over the summer every few days one of my typefaces will have a price drop
of 20 Euro per single font. The prices will stay low till autum.

Summer Discount will start right now with NewLibris.

NewLibris

When paisley goes bad

Veer's The Skinny - 10 October, 2008 - 12:41pm

Can an anthropomorphic swirl of paisley learn from its mistakes? You can find out at Design You Trust, where someone has posted an amazing 12-panel illustrated story about one hungry swirl's lament.

Illustrator 1.0

Mark Simonson's Notebook - 10 October, 2008 - 11:49am

I happened to be looking at Reuben Miller’s blog today and stopped when I saw got to the item “Introducing Illustrator 88” in which he embedded link to a YouTube video showing a portion of the VHS tape that shipped with the Illustrator 88. I have that tape and also the one that came with Illustrator 1.0. (And the disks, and the packaging. I know. It’s a disease.) I’d been toying with the idea of digitizing these videos and posting them online, but someone saved me the trouble….

1996: type on the web

Chez Porchez - 10 October, 2008 - 5:52am

1996 seems quite long ago for the web. At this time there was not so much to read about typography. I found back one of them (Silicon Valley revolution in type design). I think I recall to have read this page about Sumner Stone and others around this period. Web design is not anymore the same! (check the code…)