Typography
CategoryWhat are smart quotes & how should you use them?
You might or might not remember typewriters, but their use is responsible for many of the type crimes committed today. Text by Ilene Strizver.
Top 25 typography blogs
We are happy to be included among the Best 25 Typography Blogs, which will really help you get to grips with typography. You’ll find fonts, typefaces, type design, illustrations, lettering, text effects, typographic art, tools, books, learning resources and related disciplines. (more…)
Timesaving tips for designing with type
Ilene Strizver complied a group of tips and shortcuts that can help make the job of designing with and setting type faster and easier. Part 1 and Part 2.
ATypI Warsaw 2016, Day 1: the convergence begins
Yves Peters reports from the 60th annual ATypI conference. Read his review of the day 1 and day 2.
How to work with a lettering artist
If you’ve never worked with a lettering artist – or even if you have, there are some suggested best practices to get the desired outcome with a minimum of stress and misunderstanding. (more…)
Film – the last day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times
Typesetter Carl Schlesinger and filmmaker David Loeb Weiss documented the last day of hot metal typesetting in a film called Farewell — ETAOIN SHRDLU (the obscure title is poignantly explained in the film). (more…)
Typography is impossible, an essay by Marcin Wichary
The practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want. Setting type can be tricky. Type lets you get close, but it never quite does what you want it to do. (more…)
How to design with small caps
Small caps are capital letterforms that are shorter than full-sized caps. They are usually the height of the lowercase or slightly taller when part of a text font. Learn how to use them properly. (more…)
An interview with type designer Christian Schwartz
A conversation with Christian Schwartz, in which he rejects celebrity status, notes several important tendencies in contemporary type design, and gives his answer to the question: “Which font would you name if todayness were the main requirement?” (more…)
The mysterious ancient origins of the book
The debate about ebooks v paper books is nothing new. Keith Houston explains how a very similar debate raged as the first books came to be in ancient Rome.