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Stockholms Typografiska Gille vill höja kvaliteten på svenska grafiska produkter. Vi debatterar och engagerar oss i utvecklingen inom vårt yrkesområde, studerar och samtalar om konsekvenserna av ny teknik. Vi kritiserar dålig grafisk kvalitet. Genom dessa aktiviteter hoppas vi kunna skapa en större medvetenhet hos såväl producenter av svenska grafiska produkter, beställare av grafisk form och typografi som hos den läsande konsumenten.

Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At | A List A Part

In this excerpt from Web Typography, Richard Rutter explains how to improve the readability of your data tables.

Intressant, lärorikt och hjälpsamt för webbtypografen: Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At

Create Your Own Font in 48 hours – Type Thursday | Medium

Type Jam just held it’s first event in September, challenging teams to create a font in just 48 hours, from concept to digitisation. We spoke to Jake about creating fonts as a newb, about the mechanics of orchestrating a hackathon — and finally we took a closer look at the top 3 winning typefaces.

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Remembering W.A. Dwiggins, The Early 20th Century Designer Who Never Shied Away From Ornament

Even in an era in love with minimalism, Dwiggins’ ornate, stencil-decorated volumes and his inventive methods for making them find widespread admiration.

”Ornament is a music of space.”
—William Addison Dwiggins

The early 20th century designer William Addison Dwiggins was an ardent advocate for decorating the printed page. Like the fleurons of early printers, he designed ornament that harmonized with type, “not by reworking elements culled from early printed books; rather by making his own designs,” said Dorothy Abbe, Dwiggins’ long-time assistant.

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