typography

Cooper Black postage stamp

Oswald Cooper’s most famous typeface gets a US postage stamp!

Well, sort of. But it is legal, usable US ‘Zazzle’ postage. Snag your’s here.

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‘Tipoteca Italiana is a private foundation that was founded in 1995 to advance printing knowledge and preserve venerable printing technologies. Its founder, Silvio Antiga, a 65-year-old printer who owns a printing firm in the Veneto region, has collected more than 20 vintage presses and typesetting machines, along with hundreds of wood and metal type ‘fonts”

From T Magazine, Steven Heller looks at the incredible Tipoteca (tif) and where the term ‘font’ comes from.

I haven’t been there, but a friend visited several years ago – and brought me a whole bunch of really cool ephemera.

Found via Campbell BrownKorbel

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It’s Typography: film, song and dance

‘Baskerville, a bad asskerville’

This spring, my Digital Typography students set out to make a short film about type history.

The class – held at The Art Institute of California Sacramento – was set up like a working design studio – with myself as ‘hands off creative director.’ All students had a role, from art direction to project management, web design, editing and production.

At one point, songsmith John Slingerland threw a party at his home – and invited a few unwitting guests – just to record the background vocals for the film’s gets stuck in your head musical number.

And, featured in the credits, a very early beta version of Jeanne Texte – which I had to prep for them as my homework assignment.

It was a fun quarter; this was a great team to work with, their enthusiasm snagged everyone in their handmade typographic web.

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‘Eine kurze Geschichte der Typografie’

‘A short and entertaining introduction to typography – made within 4 days. German with English subtitles.’

Short film by Philipp Strahl.

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fabian

The work of Vienna-based artist fabian seiz.

Found via mirkohumbert

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A few free fonts (sorta)

Above, Das – Conduct of War, a cool clogged up font by Stephen Faustina.

And here’s a link to some free fonts (below) available thru FontFabric.

And from The Font Feed, here’s a great article on what the deal is with Free Fonts – and why they’re not always totally free.

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Font Me coffee mug

‘Historical font measurements, classifications, decimal conversions, proofreader marks . . . plus, beverage holder!’

Type specs, all on one mug. Snag your’s here.

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Bacon mints (and type) in Alameda

Picked these up at Space Happy in Alameda. They also have a GREAT collection of typographic tsotchkes, cut letters, wood letters, metal letters; cool stuff.

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Recipe for my type pasta salad

Serving suggestion

A few weeks back I got together with a bunch of cool font designers for a Typnic (type picnic) in Golden Gate Park. Of course, I had to bring my type pasta salad.

The recipe is inspired by both Jamie Oliver and Tom Colicchio – in that I’m borrowing a few of their ideas. Alphabet pasta can be found (in California) in the Mexican section of the supermarket, or there’s online sources.

For the recipe, I’m just going to list what I start with (sometimes I make it overly complex if I have a lot of ingredients on hand); simply add whatever you want, have fun with it . . . . [Read more →]

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Pssst: Jeanne Décoratifs preview

Here’s a sneak peek of some of the PROUNS-inspired dingbats that will be part of my upcoming Jeanne Texte font package.

The basic letterforms are now in technical review at Psy/Ops and I hope to have the new fonts completed and available by end of year. Crossing fingers.

Jeanne Texte is my sequel to Jeanne Moderno, which is available thru Psy/Ops, MyFonts and Ascender. Webfonts via Typekit.