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Fonts on Friday: Influenced by the '70s
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on May 18, 2012
Bookmania and Herbie
Fonts on Friday: Crafty Handmade Fonts
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on May 11, 2012
Knit, Sown, Grown, Bent, and more!
Type How-To: A River Runs Through It
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on May 2, 2012
Rivers are eye-catching cracks in text formed by meandering trails of word spaces running from one line to the next. Here’s why they happen, how to avoid them, and how to fix them.
Font Bureau's Readability Series Goes Retail
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 26, 2012
Previously only available to private clients, now available to public
Don Quixote, Wilco, Illustrator, Veer — and You
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 25, 2012
T-shirt design contest with all of the above will benefit non-profit.
Fonts on Friday: Food Fonts
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 20, 2012
It's the real thing: cookies, chocolate, candy, pasta, and soup!
InDesign Font Plug-in Lets You Try Before You Buy
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 12, 2012
FontGazer connects to Fonts.com database of 150,000+ fonts
The State of E-book Typography
Features: Written by James Felici on April 4, 2012
Whether on Kindle, iPad, Nook, or other LCD display, type suffers compared to print. So is good typography even possible for today’s electronic devices? From the standpoint of the craft’s two underlying principles — legibility and readability — the answer is "no."
The "Original" Helvetica
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 3, 2012
Font Bureau releases Neue Haas Grotesk
Case Study: Designing a New Logo
Features: Written by Thomas Phinney on April 2, 2012
What goes into developing a new typographic logo? Where do you start? How do you know what works — and what doesn't? Follow along as the company Extensis refreshes its branding with a new logotype.
Fonts on Friday: Three indie typefaces to add to your collection
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 23, 2012
Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque
Fonts on Friday: Three Indie Typefaces to Add to Your Collection
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 23, 2012
Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque
"100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design"
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 21, 2012
New book chronicles design as bursts of creative thinking
"The History of Graphic Design" Comes to iPad
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 19, 2012
Study aids for Meggs' definitive textbook also available.
Free For All: Photo and Font Resources, plus Pinterest
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on March 19, 2012
We have five new stock photo sites, 10 new font sources, an indispensable Photoshop add-on, and a pitch for Pinterest. Did we mention cupcakes? All for free, of course.
Robert Slimbach: Type Designer for the Digital Age
News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 2, 2012
Influential font "Original" celebrates 25 years at Adobe.
Scanning Around With Gene: A Printed “Teaching Machine” from 1894
Features: Written by Gene Gable on March 2, 2012
Even though teaching has changed considerably since the turn of the 19th into the 20th century, some basics remain the same. One thing that's changed, however, is the graphic design of teaching tools. Here’s a look at a series of large-format posters designed to help teach math skills to young students.
InDesign How-to: Balance Columns with Vertical Justification
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on February 27, 2012
You need to align type to a baseline grid but you don't want any orphans. Making columns of type line up in InDesign is the job of vertical justification. Here’s how to make it work for you.
