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The work of Tatsuo Miyajima. More here.

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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.

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Michael Hochleitner’s beautiful Ingeborg. One of Fontwerk’s Best of 2009.

Info here. Specimen here.

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I apologize for this.

On January 17, I sent out emails to the winners of my font contest. And heard nothing. Never knew if they did get my fonts. Finally heard back, nada. It looks like spam filters may have caught what was sent.

So if you were a winner in my font contest – the winners are listed here – I have now sent the fonts to your email address via YouSendIt. Please contact me if you do not receive and we can try carrier pigeon or something.

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Todd St. John’s Rethinking Snoopy spot illustration for Giant Robot.

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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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‘Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.’ -Conan O’Brien

And so this evening ended another period in Tonight Show history.

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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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New dashboard thinking for Ford from IDEO.

Article here. IDEO case study here.

The hierarchy is really well done, but what I love is the glass half full gas gauge.

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