A small grammar of writing
What’s writing main purpose? Where do letter shapes come from? Does the act of writing require a certain time, different from the act of drawing? How do we read? Is the shape of letters influenced by reading? How long does it take for letters to evolve? And how do they do it?
Say you have a client project where you need a bold, condensed sans-serif. A very narrow scope but there’s tonal variation between two typefaces in the same category. This week, TypeThursday founder Thomas Jockin discusses the typographic nuances of October Compressed, from Typotheque, and Gabriello, from Commercial Type.
Källa: Subtle Variation Between Two Condensed Sans Serifs – Type Thursday – Medium
It’s not every day you get to redesign a product used by hundreds of thousands of people, virtually overnight. But that’s what happened when we launched Mercury Reader, a Google Chrome plugin for formatting articles into a clean reader view.
Källa: Mission to Mercury: Designing a clean reading experience for web articles
So you have seen a typeface in use – on a poster, in a magazine, on a website … and you want to know what’s the name of that typeface. Here are 5 useful tips to identify it.
Alphamix is Italian designer’s Mirko Camia’s fun typographic project. The designer sculpted and modelled letters too look like the first thing that came to mind with each letter.
Källa: Alphamix by Mirko Camia