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In this lesson, we’ll review the essential traits of a good body text typeface: sturdy shapes, even color, and an active texture.
Unifying the world’s handwriting into a universal typeface. Explore existing contributions, or add your own writing to the experiment.
Up-to-date data on support for type and typographic features on the web.
Font design has a high barrier of entry. Professional font design programs are very complex, and/or quite expensive. Glyphr Studio is streamlined and made for font design hobbyists... and it's free!
Шрифт имеет довольно много…
The Google Fonts service has been immensely popular with web designers ever since it first launched in May of 2010. And for good reason. There are no accounts to sign up for and no monthly fees like there are with other web font services. Just add a single line of code to your website and you have at your disposal a huge selection of free fonts that display beautifully on screen.
But all of this begs the question: why is Google in the fonts game? What do they have to gain by hosting fonts for millions of websites for free? Is Google in this for the long haul or will Google Fonts eventually end up in the dreaded Google Graveyard?
Take any new interface design or display technology, and chances are that someone somewhere has already compared it to Minority Report. The 2002 dystopian film, with its see-through screens and…
Typografier is a tool that generates a modular & harmonious type system for modern websites.
Star typeface designer Tobias Frere-Jones explains the challenges of using Helvetica Neue as an operating system font.
Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font for their next design project. This site is an independent resource that features fonts from all type foundries.
100 Best Fonts of all Time, Ranking of best, most popular, best selling typefaces. Helvetica™ · Garamond™ · Frutiger™ · Bodoni™ · Futura™ · Times™ · Akzidenz Grotesk™ · Officina™ · Gill Sans ™ · Univers™ · Optima™ …
The wide availability of web fonts has enabled sites to become typographical wonderlands, at the cost of increased page size and longer load times. Performance-focused developers already optimize their images and CSS; it makes sense that we should also optimize web fonts.
The good news is that doing is fairly easy: by creating your own custom font or supplying your web font hosting service with a simple variable value, you can load only the glyphs that you need for the text you have on the page, rather than the entire range of characters, numbers and symbols in the font, reducing page load times.
The following schools offer a wide range of projects submitted by influential designers and educators from major design institutions around the world. They illustrate some of the many ways typography can be taught effectively. For additional information, visit the school’s Web address at the end of each project description or the School Directory.
This article is intended for an audience of contemporary designers and students who are at least one step removed from mid-century British typographic culture; it is a critique of the Gill Sans typeface and the idiosyncrasies of its creation from a contemporary perspective. The central argument is that an earlier typeface by Eric Gill’s mentor, Edward Johnston, is a superior piece of type design.
Typefaces are an expression of their time. FF Mark is a new typeface and yet it clearly draws on historical examples from the past. Precisely, the mid-1920s, a period in German history with exceptional innovation in engineering, in the arts and in design. In particular, the years between 1925 and 1930 produced several ideas that were new to the world – among them a new concept in type design: the geometric sans serif.
A presentation on development of typography focusing on Bauhaus
This is a detail from a ‘Design for a British Senate House’ (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London) that was drawn by John Soane when he was in Rome, and which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1779. It is the earliest known example of the monoline sanserif inscriptional letter of Republican Rome that was revived at this date and became widely used for signs and typography.
Отсюда: http://www.typoholic.ru/quotation/figgins.htm Об истории возрождения рубленых форм в Англии можно почитать в подробнейшей записи Джеймса Мосли в его блоге.
A type diff tool that visually contrasts the differences between two fonts.
It is difficult to cover all the developments and movements of typography in a short space. My separation of evolving technologies from the development of typefaces is an artificial one---designs and the technology used to create them are not truly separable---but perhaps it is conceptually useful.