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New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... since they converted their entire library over to OpenType in late December. And aside from the very nice font I must say I am quite ... Illustrator or Photoshop and then import it into my page layout program From that I can make PDFs... I think I may be repeating ...

Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments

What are you listening to?

... or did you mean you liked it? all of fugazi's stuff is in constant consideration when the cd player door opens. in high school when i ... Belanger's Deflaboxe when you're in the zone working on layout. http://www.audiogram.com/ Sufjan Stevens based on Sufjan ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments

Typography trends and predictions for 2007

... with you on point #5. Hopefully, the trend will shift in 2008. #7 — wonder why? :^) #7 -- wonder why? :^) #9 would be ... letters closely spaced headlines and a faux naive style of layout. Hairline fonts will also be popular. Film sales and use rise as the ...

Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 31 Dec 2006 - 11:09am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

Appropriate use of the ampersand

... "etc." is also written "&c." I think that in English, it could safely be used in headlines and other display ... alphabet, but it's right there in the Cyrillic keyboard layout is it not? It would be great to see in Russian or in Spanish fanciful ... in ads. I've always associated ampersands with advertising/commerce for those reasons, particularly when they're over-used. In ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 8:57pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

Survey: justified or rag-right?

... first and foremost, the column width; the overall layout; the number of runarounds you're dealing with; andli> the ... right, do so, although ragged left is far more common and, in most cases, more readable. In regard to runarounds, see the first ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 22 Nov 2005 - 3:13pm - 188 comments - 0 attachments

g's anyone?

... the letter is drawn, its basic shape, comes to the fore in the absence of concerns about serif shapes & directions, and stroke ... begins with such a g is not sealed off, sort of like a layout that has a picture that looks off page left. The standard binocular g ...

Forum topic - londontype - 31 Jan 2006 - 1:21pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments

Matching Sans & Serif faces for a magazine

So, I'm in the process of redesigning the magazine I work on, which used to be two ... two-page spreads. What DTP app are you using for layout? Assuming that the license permits (or with special ... The "Kayo" weight was commissioned for the advertising field. Upon finishing it, he called it "an ugly type for an ...

Forum topic - seanglenn - 21 Nov 2003 - 2:18pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments

Type modeled after Alphabet 26 / Bradbury Thompson

... not every uppercase and particularly lowercase letter fits in a unicase setting. looking at Perla, linked above, i just cringe when i see ... will look wacky if it's dropped into a generic tombstone layout. But the point of creative typographic design, going beyond easy rote ...

Forum topic - justinthomas - 22 Mar 2006 - 2:17pm - 34 comments - 0 attachments

Carol Twombly.. Please help me!

... piece of information about Carol Twombly for a project in my typography class. I keep seeing things on the web about interviews with ... of type design and the finer points of typography, layout, design, readability, and legibility. And there are the inevitable ...

Forum topic - softbluecries1 - 30 Mar 2007 - 8:13am - 244 comments - 0 attachments

Cyrillic questionary booth

... only So HermesSoft are the only ones producing fonts in Bulgaria? That's rough... So what kind of Cyrillic types were produced in ... To clarify how this works: when the language used in the layout application is specified as Bulgarian ("BGR"), the Bulgarian alternates ...

Forum topic - kateliev - 17 Jan 2008 - 10:41am - 86 comments - 0 attachments