Typography

Get Creative Video: News for the Week of May 12, 2008

PDF slicing and dicing; easy Web analytics; and free publications on type and paper.

TypeTalk: Spot OpenType Fonts Fast

Here's how to tell whether a font is OpenType without leaving your page-layout app.

P22 Type Foundry and the International House of Fonts Announce P22 Sneaky Pro By Award Winning Type Designer Michael Clark

New typeface shares qualities of the popular Pooper Black

TypeTalk: Good-looking Figures

What are the differences between "oldstyle" and "lining" figures, and what situations call for which kind of numbers?

Create Clipping Paths without Photoshop

Here's how to cut out an image using only QuarkXPress.

Scanning Around with Gene: The Islands and Bridges of Stencils

Stencil lettering may seem like the crudest form of marking there is, but at one time cutting attractive stencils was a true art form.

TypeTalk: Text Fonts versus Display Fonts

What's the difference between text and display fonts? And which ones can you use where?

Font Fetish: Jonathan Barnbrook

See what this brilliant designer is doing now.

Hermann Zapf's Alphabet Stories Now Available in Embellished Second Edition

First American edition sells out; second edition includes a letterpress-printed broadside designed by Zapf.

Scanning Around With Gene: Old News is Good News

Browsing old newspapers can be a great way to put current issues in perspective.

TypeTalk: Access Special Characters

Print out this handy chart of key combinations for the most commonly used special characters.

New Adobe TV Programming Comes Online

Unique Creative Suite 3 Video Content Available Via Adobe Media Player and New Web Destination

Font Fetish: Sniplash

Curses! This font has foiled me again!

Hollywood Sign Meltdown Linked to Global Warming

An inconvenient truth found in the Hollywood Hills

TypeTalk: Justify My Text

Making justified text look good is tough, but it's not impossible.

Font Fetish: Animated Alphabet

Thanks to this lively site, alphabetic inspiration is just a click away.

TypeTalk: Spell-Check Sabotage

Is your spell checker confused? Older fonts may be to blame.

Font Fetish: Hoefler and Frere-Jones' Archer

A slab serif anyone could love

Mergenthaler Edition Releases Linotype Matrix 4.3

The third edition of the Linotype Matrix, "a typographic journal published from time to time", leads off with the art and inspiring insights of calligrapher Gottfried Pott, then offers glimpses into the typographical history of the Low Countries and a spotlight on the sans serif success story: Helvetica.

Scanning Around With Gene: Dymo-Mite! The Art of Labeling

Fifty years ago, the first embossed white letters came out of a Dymo label maker and on to a small strip of colored plastic. Millions of labels later, we're still trying to get organized.