“Who Shot the Serif?”

Posted by Font Bureau on February 26th, 2010 — in News

[Excerpted from HOW magazine's February 2010 issue, used with permission from the author and publisher.]
Who says the serif is dead? Type expert Allan Haley bucks the sans serif trend, with a look at seven versatile new serif fonts you can add to your type wardrobe. One of them is David Jonathan Ross’s Trilby.
Reversed-Stressed Slab Serif

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Yah-hey!

Posted by Cyrus Highsmith on January 11th, 2010 — in News

I will be in America’s dairyland on the 14th to give a talk, sponsored by Design Madison. They suggested that I come in March when it’s warmer but I said no way I grew up in Wisconsin, I am coming in January. Doncha know.

“Peace Has Broken Out”

Posted by David Berlow on November 4th, 2009 — in News, Web Fonts

That was the tweet at least — a tweet being a Twitter or Twitster writing a headline and delivering it globally at text size, accompanied by a big picture of themselves or something.
But what am I saying — I’m doing it again: Writing a blog. Writing a blog on web fonts. Writing a blog [...]

New Faces in Washington

Posted by Kent Lew on October 28th, 2009 — in News, Seen and Noted

Last week the venerable Washington Post unveiled its new design, eight months in the making. More a “tweak” than an extreme makeover, the redesign was accomplished by an in-house team in collaboration with Roger Black and his studio. Charles Apple presents a very thorough review of the newspaper’s structural and design changes on his Visual [...]

Typographica’s Favorites of 2008

Posted by Font Bureau on May 5th, 2009 — in News

Zócalo, Benton Modern Display, ITC Franklin, and Rocky were all selected in Typographica’s Favorite Typefaces of 2008! Dyana Weissman was also invited to review Lakeside by Mark Simonson.