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This Dynamic Typeface Interacts with You

News: Written on February 9, 2010

LAIKA is an experimental interactive typeface. See it in action!

Expand Your Web Design Font Choices, Part 1

How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on February 8, 2010

The @font-face rule is the secret sauce of modern Web typography. You'll never be stuck with that limited set of "Web safe" fonts again! In part 1, you'll learn how to implement @font-face easily using Web font hosting services.

Join the Haiti Poster Project

News: Written on February 5, 2010

This collaboration of artists and designers from around the world will benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Please donate your work before March 15, 2010.

Just Say "No" to Automatic Leading

How-Tos: Written by James Felici on February 3, 2010

Sometimes automatic is very, very good. But sometimes it's bad news. For the typographically aware, automatic leading is a pain in the neck. Here's what you can do about it.

The Seven Rules to Understand Design & Designers

News: Written by Terri Stone on January 27, 2010

This vinyl graphic, which can stick to walls and other surfaces, tells everyone where you stand.

How to Solve Typographic Widows and Orphans

Features: Written by James Felici on January 18, 2010

Short and misplaced lines -- known as widows and orphans -- are layout problems, but they have typographic solutions.

On the Track of Good Type

Features: Written by James Felici on January 6, 2010

How, why, and when to control your type's overall spacing, better known as its tracking. It's probably the most versatile type tool you have.

Browse Vintage Ads Online for Free

News: Written by Terri Stone on January 5, 2010

The Vintage Ad Browser is a Web site with more than 120,000 ads organized into 53 categories.

New Source of Poster Inspiration

News: Written by Terri Stone on December 29, 2009

The Web site called "typo/graphic posters" includes hundreds of poster examples to study.

Great Gift for Font Lovers

News: Written on December 23, 2009

P22 Font Gift Certificates, starting at $19.95, are available for the last-minute shopper.

Create InDesign Effects that Wow!

How-Tos: Written by David Blatner Diane Burns Mike McHugh Mike Rankin Rufus Deuchler Ted LoCascio on December 17, 2009

These quick tutorials will add seven tricks to your toolbox: everything from a ripped-paper look to the reflection effect so popular right now. And you can do them all in InDesign, not Photoshop or Illustrator!

The ABCs of H&J

Features: Written by James Felici on December 16, 2009

Your most important type composition tools are in a place few program users ever go: the hyphenation and justification dialog boxes.

Free Math XTension for QuarkPress

News: Written on December 3, 2009

Compatible with QuarkXPress 7.31 and later, XPressMath lets you create professional mathematical formulas and equations within QuarkXPress projects.

Enter the 2010 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

News: Written on December 1, 2009

The competition is open to creative students around the world.

Them's the Breaks

How-Tos: Written by James Felici on November 25, 2009

Forcing lines to break -- or not break -- where you want them to gives you more design control, better type composition, and faster formatting.

Web Fonts: The Experts Speak

News: Written by Terri Stone on November 17, 2009

Imagine you could design a Web site using typefaces beyond the boring usual system font choices and be sure viewers would see what you intended.

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2

Features: Written by James Felici on November 16, 2009

Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.

Use Real Fonts on Web Sites

News: Written on November 11, 2009

Typekit bills itself as the "easiest way to use real fonts on the web." It's now out of beta and open to everyone.

Type Luminaries Speak on PRI

News: Written by Terri Stone on November 5, 2009

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, and Tracy Honn discuss typefaces past and present in a recent episode of "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Thanks to the Internet, you can listen to it right now!

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

Features: Written by James Felici on October 26, 2009

As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.

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