Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts

Blackletter typefaces elicit many contradictory emotions depending, of course, on the context in which they are used and the manner in which they are composed. Sometimes they bark commands – STOP or BEWARE. Other times they are comforting in an ecclesiastical way – Christmas and Easter greetings. During World War II Blackletter was menacing for […]

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Read the book, Typographic Firsts

Without screwing up the space/time continuum, if I could go back in time, let’s say 45 years ago when I edited, art directed and designed underground tabloid magazine-newspapers, and I could take back a contemporary font family to use as the exclusive typeface for one of those periodicals, I would choose Ritualist designed by Justin […]

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Read the book, Typographic Firsts

I ordered my first typeface in 1967. I had been dispatched by the art director, where I had landed my first job as a mechanical artist, to a neighborhood photo typesetting/print shop to select a style of phototype from the thick sample catalog in which were kept hundreds of lettering variations

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Read the book, Typographic Firsts

This month, Steven Heller takes a closer look at Ricardo Esteves’ Jana Thork font family.

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