Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books -- remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.
Egal ob in einem Buch, einer Zeitschrift oder am Bildschirm -- die Schriftarten von Matthew Carter haben Sie mit Sicherheit schon einmal gesehen. Mit viel Ch...
I started looking at fonts some months ago, and have been writing down a list of better quality typefaces that come free of charge. Some of these are open-source.
When PENGUIN was founded in 1935 with the radical concept of producing inexpensive paperback editions of high quality books, it adopted an equally progressive approach to typography and cover design. Under Jan Tschichold in the 1940s and Germano Facetti in the 1960s, Penguin became an exemplar of book design.
Creating great typeface combinations is an art, not a science. Indeed, the beauty of typography has no borders. While there are no absolute rules to follow, it is crucial that you understand and apply some best practices when combining fonts in a design.
This section is devoted to a template bundle which I developed for the typesetting system LaTeX. The first version of the template was released in early 2006. From the feedback and postcards I received so far, it seems to be in heavy use all over the world!
GFS was founded in 1992 by the late Michael S. Macrakis (1924-2001) as a Non-Profit Organization with the expressed aim of contributing to the research of Greek typography.
The quality of available free fonts has increased dramatically. To be frank, free fonts don’t have a good reputation, and often they are knock-offs of thoroughly crafted, already established typefaces. So is it time for professional designers to take a second look?
if you learn and follow these five typography rules, you will be a better typographer than 95% of professional writers and 70% of professional designers.
In this article we’ll go through the most commonly used font-families for websites and how we can do so they look as similar as possible on all machines out there.
Once Vista was available for beta, many web designers adopted it early to begin trying with varying levels of success to figure out if they can incorporate Vista fonts into their designs.
With every new version of Windows or Office, Microsoft Corporation seems to generally like to package a couple of small freebies that make it a sweeter deal,
Wenn es ein Thema gibt, aufgrund dessen meine kleine Website immer noch jede Menge Besucher anzieht, so sind es die Auflistungen und Portraits kostenloser Schriften, die ich im Wesentlichen zwischen 2004 und 2006 veröffentlicht habe, inklusive einige Nachzügler in späteren Jahren.
R. Doubleday. MX Design Conference 2005 website, (23.09.2005)Paper presented at the MX Design Conference 2005: Design Perspectives Envisioning design for the XXI century. October 26th, 27th, 28th, 2005.