TYPE 101 > 2008
On the Road
Talking about drawing…
I think Ben Shahn spoke for many artists and designers when he said, “I am a painter. I am not a lecturer about art nor a scholar of art. It is my chosen role to paint pictures, not to talk about them.”
But what artist or designer can resist the chance ramble on [...]
Word and picture show!
I will do a lecture in Boston next week. Come check it out.
6pm Tuesday, November 18th
Raytheon Amphitheatre, Northeastern University
New Type! Benton Modern Display, All Grown Up
Font Bureau is pleased to announce the release of a major new typefaces from our drawing studio: Benton Modern Display!
Benton Modern Text was first prepared by Font Bureau for the Boston Globe and the Detroit Free Press. Design and proportions were taken from M.F. Benton’s turn-of-the-century Century Expanded, drawn for ATF, faithfully reviving this epoch-making [...]
New Type! Rocky, a Latin With Bodoni Proportions, or a Bodoni With Latin Serifs?
Font Bureau is pleased to announce the release of a major new typefaces from our drawing studio: Rocky!
For years Matthew Carter wondered why no Latins with Bodoni proportions had been developed, or why no Bodonis had Latin serifs. He solved this problem by drawing Rocky Regular and Bold with italics to fill the gap, then [...]
