Woff is now supported by Firefox
After only few months of development, thanks to initial team for their effort, Woff is now supported by Firefox. → More on Woff.
Font Discoveries September-November 2009: in use samples
Magazine: Title in Apolline Std Regular; Headlines in Anisette Std Petite Thin and Parisine Std Bold Italic. Design Clara Sfarti.
Following the July 2009 publication, here after several extracted samples in use. September-November 2009 Font Discoveries for more info about the 4 fonts included: Costa PTF Italic, Anisette Std Petite Thin, Apolline Std Regular, Parisine Std Bold Italic.
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KL Twitter status
“Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English—but are great in remembering signs.”
Approches et approches de paires
Souvent cette question revient. Je viens de re-poster sur le forum du Typographe une méthode que j’utilise depuis le début des années 90.
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Quotes on Typography & Type Design
Alessandro Segalini have built a good list of quotes on Typography and Typedesign over the years.
Few hazardous picked quotes from his 115 quotes page:
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Old french signs
Very nice and rare images of french lettering in front of Paris buildings (between 1852 and 1877).
update Even more signs here at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Help doesn’t help
Weird. In Adobe Illustrator recently I came across a strange thing. I have entered too extreme negative kerning between two letters and suddenly this help message confirmed my mistake. The problem that despite trying to press ok 50 times, the help message was still there. Only way, force quit the application via the Apple menu. Nice!
Signes de retour
La revue de graphisme Signes est à nouveau en vente. Amateurs de collectors, c’est par là.
Font Shuffle 1.1
I like this iPhone app, despite that I don’t use it as type designer. Its very clever and I like the fact they have switched from Hamburgefontis to Ramburgefonstiv!…
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No more Internet Explorer 6
I like such initiatives: ie6 no more. Fun and perhaps helpful.