Latin, Dummy
June 19, 2011
I use dummy text. I'm not proud of it and it's never an ideal solution, but sometimes it's a necessary evil. Read More »
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Urban Lettering Tour
May 01, 2010
Last weekend I went on an Urban Lettering Tour with Paul Shaw, organized through the Type Directors Club to take place in Greenwich Village and SOHO. The plan was to walk around and discuss the lettering on the buildings in the neighborhood. It was pouring rain that morning so we ended up deviating from the predetermined itinerary. There were about 20 of us in the tour and all were all deemed Super Dorks for walking around in the pouring rain, talking about type. Read More »
Hanging & Discussing
March 30, 2010
A discussion was started the other day with a few co-workers about hanging punctuation. I proposed that bullets and quotation marks be hung in the margins—a lesson learned from my mentor and with help of Robert Bringhurst, whose The Elements of Typographic Style book I keep on my desk at home at all times. In defense of my point, I quickly pointed them to Mark Bolton's Five Simple Steps to Better Typography series. Read More »
What we’re missing on the web
February 15, 2010
Designing for the web often serves a different purpose, and can have it's advantages over designing for print. We trade paper alignment headaches for browser rendering migraines and color swatches for the hexadecimal system. But what gets lost in translation? There are a few traditions that have been around long before cascading style sheets that are still missing on the web. Read More »
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