Fantastic use of the Eurostile typeface — but so much pink.
Index: typography
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Sunday, 1 November 2009
From The East London Theatre Archive, a collection of nearly 15,000 playbills, programmes, press cuttings and photographs. Great resource for a Victorian typography enthusiast like myself.
Saturday, 3 October 2009
At IKEA. The Verdana, the horror.
Friday, 2 October 2009
From the Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres, published in 1766. That was a good year for quaint pointy hands. (Though of course they weren’t quaint back then.)
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Behind the Typedia logo design
Not only is Typedia a very attractively designed resource site, the owners and designers have very generously shared an insight into the creation of the site logo. A great example of the professional back and forth that can go on with any creative project.
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Comic Sans: the go-to font for that “written-in-own-faeces” look
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Ah, Microsoft Word… only a mother could love your default heading styles. Like a Tourettes fit in a type foundry.
Indiana Jones and the (Scrutinisers of the) Fonts on the Maps (of Doom)
Have you ever wondered if the fonts used on the maps in the Indiana Jones travel montage sequences are historically synchronistic? To my shame, I hadn't either. Now I'm wondering if they had Franklin Gothic in that galaxy far, far away.
