David Berlow on John Berry’s Blog
“David Berlow has always been a consummate type designer, crafting new faces and new versions of old faces for any number of specific, practical uses.”
—John Berry, April 21st 2008
TYPE 101 » Type Design
The Em
The em is an important and basic thing in typography, but its definition can be quite tricky. If you ask a type designer, a typographer, and a software engineer to define the em, you will probably get three different answers. The answers will not necessarily contradict each other; they are just from different points of […]
cryptic regularity
“The bas-relief was a rough rectangle less than an inch thick and about five by six inches in area; obviously of modern origin. Its designs, however, were far from modern in atmosphere and suggestion; for although the vagaries of cubism and futurism are many and wild, they do not often reproduce that cryptic regularity which […]
A Typical Day at the Office
Creating typefaces isn’t as easy as you might think…
Letters represent sounds
A drawing from a sketchbook, exploring the possibilities of the phonetic alphabet…
