Typography in the 1990s
by Ellen Lupton
How quickly “now” becomes “then.” A few weeks ago, I was looking for examples of experimental typography to show to my MFA students at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). I pulled a book off the shelf called Typography Now Two: Implosion, edited by Rick Poynor in 1996....
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Typoliteracy
by Steven Heller
I love type prefix titles like Typotheque, Tipoteca, Typology, Typomuffin, etc. Now there's Typedia, and you guessesd it is a wiki-like, interactive encyclopedic type website designed and devised by a slew of web/type enthusiasts and intended to answer every type question you've ever had....
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Diotima Classic
by Paul Shaw
Diotima, originally made as foundry type by D. Stempel AG, has become a forgotten face in the digital age. Linotype has just released Diotima Classic, a family of four weights (light, regular, bold, and heavy) with corresponding italics....
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Ventura
by Anna Malsberger
Ventura, a "bright-eyed and balletic" TDC 2008 winner designed by Dino dos Santo, has been sculpted by a couple of cultures and centuries....
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Lakeside
by Anna Malsberger
Looming over the baseline like long shadows on a rainy night, the characters in Mark Simonson's Lakeside are an homage to brush-script titles of 1940s film noir....
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Empire State Building
by Paul Shaw
Empire State Building is a font family from Christian Scwartz and Paul Barnes that balances a reverence for history with an understanding of the demands imposed on a face intended for signage....
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Stilla
by Anna Malsberger
Stilla is a headline typeface for anyone waiting for Poster Bodoni to shrug off its restrained precision and get a little funky: It's defined by thick verticals, high contrast, and a self-assured boldness....
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Flexion
by Paul Shaw
John Langdon created ambigrams as title animations for the film version of The Da Vinci Code. They weren’t used in the movie, but they inspired Langdon to create Flexion, his first typeface....
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Contempo Elan
by Anna Malsberger
Type designer Wesley Poole's foray into the discipline was as a sign painter in Napa Valley, origins that inform the stylish vigor and craft of his new typeface, Contempo Élan. Classical and audacious...
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Andralis ND
by Anna Malsberger
Andralis ND wants to write a story for the ages. Quaint and hardy in equal measures, the text family has a gentle voice, and its angular forms give the characters a hand-crafted tenor: enduring and just a bit rustic...
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FF Meta Serif
by Anna Malsberger
After fielding over a decade of requests clamouring for a serif to complement to his seminal sans FF Meta, Erik Spiekermann's studio released the long-awaited FF Meta Serif in November 2007....
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