typography

: How We Will Read: Craig Mod

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Welcome to the third installment of How We Will Read,” a series exploring the future of reading from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. This week we spoke to Craig Mod, writer, publisher, and former designer at Flipboard.

Craig has written and spoken on the…

Big Cartel Blog: Coming Soon: New customization features

bigcartel:

We want your store to be as colorful as you are, and building that unique look is about to get a whole lot easier.

For over a year now we’ve been working on a new design area for your store admin that will simplify the customization process, for all skill levels, and we can’t wait to get it…

The making of Garçon Grotesque

Tungsten type

Let’s begin with something tougher than steel from H&FJ. Meet the just-released Tungsten. [insert superlatives here]

Tungsten typeface from Hoefler & Frere-Jones


Would be great to see a few more weights…

Nineteenth Century Designers & Engravers of Type

“The truth of the terse but expressive ‘dead and forgotten’, comes home with peculiar force to the searcher after information about the individuals who have developed…

Type Radio

It’s been quite some time since I mentioned the brilliant Type Radio. It’s a podcast I’ve been listening to for ages, and they now have a huge archive of type-related…

The making of FF Duper

Berlin-based Martin Wenzel might be best-known for his TDC-awarded sans serif family FF Profile. He runs his own studio, focusing on type and communication design and…

The Font-as-Service

When Johno first asked me to write about Typekit, I jumped at the chance. I’d received a beta invite to try out the service about a week before, but deadlines had got in the…