It’s following me!!!

Has anyone else noticed Alternate Gothic No 3 popping up all over the place lately? I haven’t been this disturbed by the appearance of a font since I got no sleep on a transatlantic flight and started hallucinating Papyrus in the customs line at Malpensa.

Where are the Opentype Pro and Standard specifications?

Where can I find a list of the characters (and their unicode values) that go into Latin Opentype Standard and Opentype Pro fonts?

Anyone recognize this marker?

Please ignore the awesomeness of this video and tell me what kind of marker the scribe is using—I’ve never seen one that writes so well!

Sorry, here’s the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vw4nUdHYQ4E

Is there a contemporary lettering and calligraphy magazine?

Aside from the various society publications, are there any good magazines about lettering and calligraphy?

Advertising is like porn

From Blank is Like Blank
- You shouldn’t stay in the same position for too long.
- If it’s good, it transcends language.
- Working in the industry will affect your family life at some point.
- It creates careers for art-school dropouts.
- The same concepts are endlessly recycled.
- You fast-forward through the boring stuff.
- The Internet took it to a whole new level.
- It’s hard to transition out of.
- They both have weird self-congratulatory award shows.
- Only the people who create it are delusional enough to call it art.

When bad typesetting attacks!

Right now I am reading a book with type set entirely in Arial with negative tracking.

It’s not fun.

We are officially nerds

David Brookes writes about nerds:

They can visit eclectic sites like Kottke.org and Cool Hunting, experiment with fonts, admire Stewart Brand and Lawrence Lessig…

It’s a gorgeous Saturday

And I’m sitting here staring at letters through a loupe and making tweaks onscreen.

No more Microsoft book search!

Microsoft is killing it’s awesome book searching web site. From what I can tell, its the only thing MS really does better than Google!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/technology/24soft.html?_r=1&ref=techno...

Grrr…

Does anyone else ever get the urge to slug people who refer to type design as a hobby when you discuss it with them?