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Helvetica blahs

Posted on February 19th, 2011 by steve

Helvetica wallpaper by Lurino.

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Helvetica weather

Posted on February 19th, 2011 by steve

Found via omb7*

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Helvetica love

Posted on February 19th, 2011 by steve

Old home page for ‘Helvetica Lovers Anonymous.’

Click to jump/view larger. From 2004.

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Font sex

Posted on February 18th, 2011 by steve

‘Unlike conventional fonts, Chan’s Sade fonts are comprised of sexual phrases and sentence fragments rather than letters, so that what is typed on the keyboard is not what appears on the screen.’

Type a letter, get a phrase. Type a sentence, get a story.

18 TrueType fonts by Paul Chan. Download them free here.

Found via Fleshbot

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NY, the very good type

Posted on February 18th, 2011 by steve

Typography from New York magazine.

Found via mslk

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SPY, the very good (Google) archive

Posted on February 17th, 2011 by steve

‘[Spy] was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all.’ –Dave Eggers

SPY Magazine. The New York monthly. The most influential magazine of its time. The Rosetta Stone of modern periodical publishing. Really.

SPY took celebrities and the super rich to task for being, well, celebrities and super rich. Donald Trump was a frequent target. And the best part: SPY was caustically funny and incredibly smart in the way it did what it did. [Read more →]

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