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campaign typography

Posted by Cyrus Highsmith on January 29th, 2008 — in News

The Boston Globe asked us to write a small article on the design of the 2008 presidential candidates’ logos. Sam Berlow and I took a stab at it. I use the word ‘stab’ because looking at most of them is like stabbing needles into your eyes. Well, maybe not that bad.
Personally, I am surprised […]

The Em

Posted by Cyrus Highsmith on January 9th, 2008 — in Type Design

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 […]

 
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