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100% practical. Sketches have been made to explain some basic issues in type design during the workshops. They get used to point out some problems which raise while creating a new typeface. Only some foundations are shown, no deep sophisticated details.
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Scott Kellum is a front-end developer and the designer behind modularscales.com — a guide to using modular scales to set type on the web. In this interview we discuss how to think about proportion and end on why Scott thinks the future of type lies in variable fonts. …
Läs mer: From Modular Scales to Variable Fonts – Type Thursday – Medium
The tools we design with have a unique effect on the way we work, constraining and empowering us while we explore, examine and create. Variable fonts give us a new, wide open typographic space with which to work. Instead of prescribing value to individual UI elements in a vacuum, we should take a hybrid and calculated approach to variable font interfaces. How do we structure our design tools to adapt to the new advantages variable fonts provide us with?
“Exhaustive” is a word bandied around a fair bit when it comes to books, but in the case of The Visual History of Type, a whopping new tome from Laurence King that details every major typeface produced since the advent of printing in the mid-15th century until now, we kind of think the adjective is apt.
Läs mer» Why All Good Designers Need to Know The Visual History of Type
Skaffa boken » http://www.laurenceking.com/us/coming-soon/design/the-visual-history-of-type-1/
Enabling design & development teams to use spacing deliberately for improved readability and consistency in product.
Källa: A framework for creating a predictable & harmonious spacing system for faster design-dev handoff