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About the Author
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Steven Heller is the cofounder and the cochair of the MFA Designer as
Author program at the School of Visual Arts. He writes the Visuals
column for the New York Times Book Review and the Graphic Content
blog for T-Style; is editor of AIGA Voice; and is a contributor to Design Observer. He is the author, coauthor, and/or editor of more
than 120 books on design and popular culture, including the forthcoming
New Ornamental Type (Thames and Hudson). More information can be found at his homepage.
See all Daily Heller posts here.
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Typoliteracy
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by Steven Heller
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I love type prefix titles like Typotheque, Tipoteca, Typology, Typomuffin, etc. Now there's Typedia, and you guessed it--it's a wiki-like, interactive encyclopedic type website devised and designed by Jason Santa Maria, Khoi Vinh, John Langdon, Liz Danzico, and Dan Cederholm, all names I suspect Print readers know well (or will now).
Well, you wouldn't have guessed that these guys did it had I not told you. But here's what Santa Maria says about the new venture: "Sites like Flickr had already revolutionized the way we shared and
discovered photography; why isn’t anyone taking advantage of the web
for the sake of type? I should do that, I murmured. My friends
offered up a shared response: Well, do it." They did it. (Langdon designed the logo above.)
Typedia enables the user to locate typefaces, attribute a designer or foundry, and see the face(s) in context. But, Santa Maria says, a site like Typedia is only as good as its members. "So we made it dead
simple to contribute. Creating an account is quick, and adding a
listing for a typeface only has one required field, the name. Fill in
any other information you know, and others will (we hope) help by
filling in what you don’t." To get started, visit the homepage and register.
Then build the largest type library in the universe.
What's the first font you would grab? Tell us in the comments. And if anyone knows who designed it, I'm looking for info on a face called Klaus Bubula Bold.
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Reader Comments
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Oh you clever Heller... nice self-promotion for a font that YOU designed. Too bad I wasn't able to find a visual of it on the interwebs!
My current font crush: Klavika.
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kasiadesigns
September 16, 2009
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Typohile has a Wiki, but I don't think it is visual. And you can get an answer to font inquiries PDQ.
Current type crush: Scala
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BruceS63
September 16, 2009
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I haven't had my coffee yet. I should have known something was up. Klaus Bubula Bold. You little stinker.
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Bobbi
September 16, 2009
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