Alternative sérieuse pour un meilleur support des droits d’usage des fontes. En faisant la promo active du format EOT, issu de Weft qui n’a jamais réussi à s’imposer depuis tant d’années, EOT est proposé au W3C.: Réussira-t-il à s’imposer?

Il est clair qu’avec le support du @font-face property dans Safari 3.1, il n’est pas possible d’employer des fontes commerciales pour des pages web, sachant que les fontes se retrouvent facilement accessibles pour des usages non-prévus par la licence originale.

Des solutions doivent être trouvées, le font-face actuel n’est pas fonctionnel.

Twenty 120 is back with another collection of 20 120 second shorts. Featuring hamburger flybys, everyday truth and lies, moonlanding conspiracies and the littlest matryoshka doll that cried wolfie. Via Quipsologies.

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

Warm up your scroll button and explore Bob Staake's collection of European poster art from the mid 20th century. Staake has over 150 iconic posters on display, advertising products of the time: planes, trains, and shipping lines, cigarettes and alcohol, theater, sports, travel, and toiletries. All tiled on a single page for guaranteed sensory overload.

The original Sabon Next was designed in Type 1 format back in 2002. In 2006, I have created the Sabon Next Pro version in OpenType, finally published by Linotype early 2008. There is a printed specimen originally created in 2002 by Muriel Paris who will be updated in forthcoming months. So, because as many websites, Linotype current website can’t show easily all options available for the Sabon Next Pro, such OT features and so on, we’ve decided with Linotype staff to put on their website at visitors disposal, a short pdf version (25 pages, A4 format). It will be shortly available at linotype.com.

Until this happen soon, please enjoy it directly from the designer… Click to download the pdf.