About a year ago in a Typophile thread, in response to Hrant's advocacy for a science-based, theoretically-driven approach to legibility, I argued that legibility was a practical matter really, and that any typeface could be turned into a text type, wit ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 18 Dec 2009 - 12:21pm - 57 comments - 0 attachments

Indices : Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works of three authors—offers a foundation for every great typographic library. Included below is an evolvin ...

Wiki - circehouse - 17 Sep 2009 - 11:41am - 0 comments

Indices : Designers : Rene Verkaart Rene Verkaart started CharactersFontFoundry in 2004 as the result of a decade of custom logo- and typedesign for clients. Since 1995 he's been running his own graphic design studio, Stoere Binken ...

Wiki - Characters - 12 Jul 2008 - 6:16am - 0 comments

Hey all, I'm a recently-registered member, and I'm 16 years old, and I have a font of my own. It's called Cyril. The original inspiration came when I was browsing through letters for some reason and the Russian ka really grabbed my attention. I sket ...

Forum topic - Number3Pencils - 18 Apr 2007 - 6:49pm - 29 comments - 8 attachments

Indices : Books : Language, Culture, Type Published in 2002 by Graphis. Edited by John D. Berry . Language Culture Type grew out of the first international type-design competition, the 2001 bukva:raz!, whose goal was to promot ...

Wiki - James Grieshaber - 13 Dec 2006 - 10:54am - 0 comments

I'm working on my first typeface. It's inspired by the city of Copenhagen and it should be used for titles or posters. Any critique welcome. Lowercase ‘m’ is emphasized, because it doesn’t look very well for me (any suggestions?) — fixed already. ...

Forum topic - David Brezina - 15 Sep 2006 - 12:42pm - 41 comments - 4 attachments

Im going for a 4 days holding-hands-with-my-wife-without-daughter-between-us-trip to Barcelona in Februrary. Does any of you know good places to go? anything would be of interest. Design, typography, THE restaurant, art, loving people, etc. Ni ...

Forum topic - nicolaj - 27 Jan 2004 - 6:04am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

This is my first post, but anyway, I was thinking that House Industries makes a darn good living doing what they do. What is it five, or six guys. My customer number is in the 28,000s and their boxed sets, love them or hate them, seem popular among peop ...

Forum topic - anonymous - 66 comments - 0 attachments

what is the idea behind modification/customization of existing fonts? [let's say I'm the client and I really love Minion -- so what the type designer is going to do? "copy" the font? change the strokes? create a new Minion?.......] Actually, ...

Forum topic - parker - 17 Jun 2005 - 8:38pm - 138 comments - 0 attachments

There must be something in the water in Canada. It seems there are far more people involved in type design who are from Canada than the size of their population would support. Maybe long winters make people glyph skilled? Other than the Netherlands, I ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 3 Oct 2005 - 6:06am - 63 comments - 0 attachments