Welcome to the Typophile Arabic Typography & Type Design Group
This is the place to discuss anything and everything to do with making and using typefaces for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and the many other languages that use variants of the Arab script. Use this forum to meet colleagues, discuss issues and ideas, and present your work. Forum topics include, but are not limited to, questions and advice related to the design or use of Arabic type, technical issues related to making Arabic fonts and resolving text encoding and display issues, announcements of events, exhibitions, etc., and links to Arabic typography on the Web.
avoid red arrows - type foundry of University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
it is possible to use these fonts for your own projects if you contact the students kindly.
greetings from Karlsruhe
A tutorial for good typography in InDesign - Setting up a baseline grid
Good clean typography is a fundemental skill of any designer. Most designers believe they have good typography but in my experience it is something which is developed through time and experience. I think we all begin our design lives with a desire to be outrageously creative, and only as we mature, begin realise that simplicity and structure is just as, if not more important. In this article, I will go through some simple steps to acheive good clean well structured typography in Adobe Indesign.
Type designer handwriting
Cameron Adams of Sydney Australia collected handwriting samples of his favorite type designers and compared them to their types. Incidentally, his favorites overlap a lot of mine. Via Slashdot (of all places)
I made something cute and free called Sniglet
Just a fun project I’ve been working on in my spare time :) It’s only ttf but has a reasonably complete character set for other languages.
Download here:
http://www.kingdomofawesome.com/Sniglet.zip
Typophile Tee Battle - And the winner is...
UPDATE We’re now taking pre-orders in the Typophile Store.
After a heated battle and much deliberation the winning tee has emerged! SN Rajpurohit from Ahmedabad, India has won the contest with his subission Light, Regular, Bold & Bold Italic.
We don’t expect the world to get it, and that’s parf of the point. The tee will be printed on an American Apparel shirt in “Light Blue” with gray ink. Stay tuned for pre-order information.
Satya will receive a copy of the mighty FontBook (A $99 USD value, thanks to FontShop!) and a $100 gift certificate to Threadless, (thanks Skinnycorp!).
Reality check before the fog: Web fonts
This session description, was on the TypeCon web site. I was kindly invited to join this panel, but alas, by the time last week’s invite was offered, I was booked for Punkt weekend.
“No one can argue that improvements around fonts for the web aren’t long overdue, but the current scheme has various drawbacks. The most serious problem being that only freeware fonts can be used, with the fonts web designers want to use [] completely off-limits, leading to fears that commercial fonts will be misused...”
Hmmm.
“No one can argue that improvements around fonts for the web aren’t long overdue,”
Well some people have successfully argued against doing anything productive for near 1.5 decades, quite obviously, right?
”...but the current scheme has various drawbacks.”
Son of a Linotype Salesman
One of the subjects for the History of Graphic Design in South Louisiana project is James Gabour, 96, who still goes every day to his printing plant in Pineville, Louisiana.
For a while he was the local Linotype sales and service rep, his region around here was quite large.
James’ son, Jim Gabour, Artist in Residence and Professor of Video Technology, Loyola University New Orleans told me about his dad and we have been corresponding about him ever since.
Following is the text from some of that correspondence while setting up my appointment to take James oral history:
“Sent: Date: Jun 21, 2008 9:43 AM
To: nancy sharon collins
Subject: Re: dad
Thanks, Nancy.
