Moulin Rouge lettering: refused
This first trial was an adaptation from the façade of the Moulin Rouge.
In 2009, I was asked by a design agency to work for a day, to help them to win a competition…
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MoMa US history deviation?
Its absolutely normal to select typefaces based on its own vision, and from where people live and see the world everyday…
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Les favoris de Fernand Baudin
Citation de Fernand Baudin extraite de Techniques graphiques, nº 53, novembre 1964.
Je ne connais pas de caractères favoris. Je choisi le caractère en fonction de la nature du travail, des lecteurs probables, du procédé d’impression, du papier, des moyens mis à sa disposition, du temps imparti…
The Raster Tragedy […] by Beat Stamm
Interesting references for any interested in font rasterization. Beat Stamm start his introduction by: Rendering fonts on digital devices harbors the potential for incredible flexibility and convenience…
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Japon: Font Aid V
S{o}TA organise un nouveau Font Aid V, un projet réunissant les communautés typographiques et de design avec un objectif de collecte de fonds pour accélérer les efforts de secours après le séisme et le tsunami au Japon.
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Caprices d’Adrian Frutiger
Citation d’Adrian Frutiger extraite de Techniques graphiques, nº 53, novembre 1964.
Le dessinateur de caractères ne doit pas ennuyer le lecteur avec ses caprices personnels.
Type credits: Caledonia, Apolline
There is a tradition old as the invention of printing to credit typography at the end of books and publications. Some examples are better and more signifiant than others.
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Font designers economy
Two articles discovered via Daring Fireball can be interesting in the context of font market quick analyse.
Depending font distribution, there is some way to sold type licences. At Myfonts, it seems that fonts sold by weights are the things people buying. In more traditional distributors, such FontShop or Monotype, families are the first thing you’re pushed to buy. Despite the analogy sound present compared to albums versus singles in music industry as described on the two articles, it doesn’t apply at 100%: separate fonts work mostly for headline, one shot use, compared to typefaces families used for longer time. I don’t cover here bespoke fonts who is a completely different subject.
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