Amazing! Garamond, Cooper Black and Myriad just became web-safe fonts.
(First person to use Trajan on a website gets a crotch-punch, though)
Super-simple typeface designer for iPad. Touch interface to sketch your font, then it uploads it to a website for sharing.
The smartest thing the Android team ever did
Looking at the screenshots of the forthcoming release of Android, I can’t help but notice one thing.
The typography.
More than anything, what draws my eye and makes it clear that I’m looking at an Android screen, not an iPhone, is the beautifully designed, decidedly not-Helvetica, typeface.
Here’s hoping the Android experience starts to catch up, and surpass, Apple’s. Nothing would make me happier than choosing an Android-based phone next time I want to upgrade.
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Amazingly clever piece of hackery. Embed fonts seamlessly in your pages in a manner that works with all released major browsers (including iPhone), but degrades gracefully. Need to do some playing with this…
Are these interrobangs lovely, or what‽
I believe that is meant to say “fuel”
but that's not what I saw when it caught my eye in the supermarket. This is what happens when your designer doesn't give a, ahem, "fuel".
Type designers decode the presidential candidates.
Turns out that the official London Underground typeface is not, as I had been lead to believe, Gill Sans, but instead “Johnston”.
Microsoft have been sneaking the Interrobang glyph into their latest fonts. Who’d have thunk it‽
Interesting collection of word designs that read the same forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards, etc.
So farewell then, Garamond Italic and Helvetica Black.
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