Arkitypo — Using the 26 letters of the alphabet as the starting point, the curators selected a specific typeface that began with each respective letter to develop a 3d alphabet of alphabets. After thoroughly researching the history of each letter, they set out to represent each individual character graphically with elements of its history serving as the foundation.
Arkitypo: letter rotations on Vimeo.
posted by netbros
on Feb 11, 2012 -
3 comments
The unexpected (possible) history of the world's most famous typeface. Mike Parker, former head of typographic development at Morgenthaler Linotype,
has challenged the standard history of Times New Roman. The typeface, Parker claims, wasn't designed by "the great persuader"
Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent of Monotype in 1931, but rather thirteen years earlier by an American,
William Starling Burgess,
an airplane and yacht designer, published poet, and naval architect who married five times and whose daughter, also named Starling Burgess, described him as “a bird of paradise in a family of English sparrows.” By the time of that statement, she no longer shared his name, but
had become the celebrated children's author
Tasha Tudor.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Aug 17, 2009 -
46 comments
Are you a typoholic? It starts so innocently. One day you're mildly interested in the difference between display and text typefaces. Soon you can distinguish between teardrop and beak terminals. Suddenly you're annoying everyone in the movie theater by yelling out the names of all the fonts used in the credits. What's so scary is that you never saw it coming. You, my friend, are a type freak.
posted by ColdChef
on Apr 29, 2004 -
36 comments
