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Sutro Tower shirt, San Francisco.

Found via Thomas Hawk

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Things in Sacramento are named Tower.

After the bridge, after the theatre (both below). Tower Records (as a walk in store) started  . . .  and finished here. I’m convinced the local auto museum, the Towe was actually supposed to be the Tower but they forgot to add the r.

Pictured: Sacramento Cityscapes by Paul Guyer. More here.

(Shakey’s Pizza started here too)

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Type image generated by Wordle from my blog’s tags. Try it out here.

Found via Martin Klasch

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‘Includes type from Obama’s campaign and branding: Gotham, Knockout No. 48, Gill Sans, and Perpetua.’

Illustration for TIME by Dylan Roscover. Article here.

The State of the Union is tomorrow night.

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‘Get the first ever available WOFF font FF Nuvo Medium Demo and give it a go for free.’

Demo version of Siegfried Rückel’s Nuvo Medium, Webfont compatible with Firefox 3.6. Snag it here.

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Recently, I made most of my font library available for the web via Typekit.

The list is here.

Thru TypeKit web designers can (legally) embed my fonts as html text at any website. Here’s a site that’s using Chandler 42.

Typekit has 4 subscription options; with a free trial plan available. Note: My fonts are only available through the Portfolio plan and higher.

For more info, drop by Typekit. Subscribe to their blog for updates.

And
Here’s a review at Webmonkey that does a good job explaining what all this font embedding hoohah is about.

Tags: cool finds, design, education, fonts, mehallo merchandise, typography by steve
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Michael Hochleitner’s beautiful Ingeborg. One of Fontwerk’s Best of 2009.

Info here. Specimen here.

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Sketches by dr. mendez and nurse wickland

I think our lowercase g is our screwiest letter. It evolved into something quite odd. It has parts that other letters do not have. It also has an ear. It’s often drawn just like a dog’s ear.

Two of my students have been pondering (above) other letters that should have ears.

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H&FJ’s newest: Vitesse

It’s always cool when a major newspaper does a blurg on typography.

Here’s font designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones talking shop in The New York Times.

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‘Customize your own scarf with letters. Write names, messages, dates, places  . . .’

Designed by Henrik Kubel.

Keep warm. Go here.

Found via Marian Bantjes

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This week, Jeanne Moderno ended up with the dubious honor of being on the
Merkwürdige Schriften 2009 (Strange Types 2009) list over at Slanted.

Thanks guys! Strange, that would be the best way to put it.

Here’s a link. Here’s the same link translated into dubious English.

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