House Industries announces a new set of prints on wood and paper.
(via karenh)
August 26th 2010
“Use spaced en dashes – rather than close-set em dashes or spaced hyphens – to set off phrases.”
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, p.80 (via DI). Bringhurst continues:
The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.
“It’s like the ‘Wizard of Oz’ moment when they go from black and white to color.”
Tal Leming, The changing typography of the Web
The most gorgeous theme for Google Reader, Jon Hicks’ Helvetireader 2 is now available.
Jessica Hische shows off her design students’ magnificent work.
Is Archer's Use on Target? »
AIGA takes a look at the popularity and use of Archer, a fantastic (if not overused) slab serif from HFJ:
Archer boomed right when the U.S. economy went bust. With unemployment continuing to soar and businesses declaring bankruptcy, with newspapers and magazines folding and personal savings accounts shrinking, Americans, more than ever, crave trust, comfort, friendliness and other fuzzy feelings. Companies are responding, and Archer may be part of the solution.
Trent Walton uses CSS3
background-cliptext &@font-faceto create this fantastic digital poster. Love the cross-hatch pattern used for the text shadow. (via esquareda)
House Industries has launched their new mid-century typeface, Eames Century Modern, at the Eames Office in Santa Monica.
This is not helping my H&FJ addiction.
One of Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ finest emails: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts.
Also noted:
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Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer checking out Tumblr on the set of Mad Men.
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Very friendly Monster Friends poster series available from Familytree. The Kracken, Yeti, Loch Ness, & Sasquatch, by Alex Pearson, ... -
This article is specifically about pixel “density”, a relatively new concern to digital designers. In the mobile environment, screen resolution has...
