When it comes to lettering manuals (https://letterformarchive.org/news/art-of-lettering-instruction/), it’s hard to beat Michael Harvey. His illustrations are as charming as they are instructive. Attached are pages from Creative Lettering (1985) and Calligraphy in the Graphic Arts (1988).
What’s missing from the calligraphy examples here, though, is the movement of the hand he shows in the first drawing image. Anyone know a great illustration that clearly compares #lettering (drawn letters) to #calligraphy (written letters)?
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Even truer than when it was tooted two years ago.
https://typo.social/@typographica/109706106406658868
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A reminder that https://library.typographica.org/specimen-books-of-metal-wood-type lists over 300 metal and wood type specimens hosted online.
If you want occasional notifications of new books added to the db, you can become a Typographica Library patron here: https://buymeacoffee.com/typographica
(A long overdue newsletter is going out to patrons this weekend.)
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… And name ideas for 21st-century startups. Listen for this maker of artisan tableware on your next podcast sponsor break.
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… Still, there’s light at the end of the tunnel, and a bit of optimistic wisdom amidst the doom.
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… This is rough.
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The poor workers at Franklin Type Foundry must’ve been living a hard life when they picked the specimen phrases for their 1889 catalog. (https://archive.org/details/convenientbookof00allirich)
[#]TypeSpecimens #Typefaces #Fonts #Poetry
[First posted on Twitter, May 6, 2018]
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“…cultivate connections to the art directors and in-house design departments. …let them know the custom type is just better design and inevitably more affordable to their clients.
In the last two years, we’ve seen big, high-profile identity projects with custom typefaces drawn by young colleagues. There is a financial motivation, but I think the indirect effect of that will be that design will become more diverse. Giving room to the voices of younger people from different parts of the world.”
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“When M. has to draw a custom design, it will take them as many hours as it would an independent designer. And if you price your work properly and you talk to the right clients, you can say: ‘I can build this whole family with all of the writing systems and all of the support and all of the things that you need. Me and my associates can draw and engineer this for you. And it will cost less than what you would have to pay M. in a year.’” – @letterror
https://type.today/en/journal/erik
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My fear about this admin (besides, you know, all the stuff they will do), is the normalization of every action, and every devotee and apologist, as plain ol’ left/right politics, as if it’s merely about differing takes on economic policy.
No. A day one order denies trans people their right to exist. If you think that’s ok, we can’t just agree to disagree and go on like normal.
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Gebbia has come a long way from this 2018 Airbnb Twitter post that still lives on Chesky’s X account, back when it was more fashionable for corps to question Trump.
And as recently as 2023, he made campaign contributions to Biden-Harris, Gavin Newsom, and the Democratic National Committee. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2025/01/19/airbnb-billionaire-who-backed-kamala-harris-says-he-actually-voted-for-trump/]
Like all billionaires, it seems his only value staying rich.
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Every designer should call this shit out as unacceptable. This isn’t about accepting a variety of political viewpoints in the field. This is about endorsement of a rapist and wannabe dictator.
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Joe Gebbia, RISD grad & cofounder of Airbnb, joins the tech weaklings who bow and kiss Trump’s ring. Worse than donating money to the inauguration, he posted on X about how he voted for him.
He took a look at the options and chose this Republican party.
I’m wondering what Brian Chesky is thinking right now. And the Eames Institute, on whose board Gebbia sits.
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@tallpauley’s WordSiv is a Python library for generating font proofing text. See the docs on https://www.wordsiv.com/, which also provides a comparison to other useful tools like @jaf’s https://justanotherfoundry.com/generator and MIguel Sousa’s classic https://adhesiontext.com/.
A key feature is Simple Word Probability (https://www.wordsiv.com/#why-simple-word-probability) to give the resulting text a “realistic” shape.
[#]TypeDesign #FontProofing #DrawBot
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What foundries are doing the most interesting font marketing right now? Especially curious about promotion outside the normal social media channels.
[#]Fonts #TypeDesign #TypeIndustry
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In 2018 @alphabettes ran the same poll and got similar ambiguous results (just in the opposite direction, with more lighter than heavier).
On their blog is a good summary by @veryrobin and analysis of a corpus of fonts by @tosche_e and @akira1975: http://www.alphabettes.org/dear-alphabettes-what-defines-a-book-weight/
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Three truths I hope are revealed by this survey’s results and discussion:
[#]TypeDesign #Fonts #Typography
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One thing that makes #FaceInterface a unique conference: despite participants hailing from many different disciplines (engineering, design, linguistics), almost everyone here knows by heart the difference between “character” and “glyph”.
(Maybe the Unicode Conference is the only other example.)
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@martabernstein’s #FaceInterface talk was a rare peek into something all of us do, but we rarely reveal: how we research. It should be a 20 min tutorial for every designer.
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Gerui Wang at #FaceInterface speaking on the undesirable conformity of AI, using the example of traditional Chinese calligraphy and its need for originality and variation.
[#]Calligraphy #AI #GenAI #Lettering
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