February 2012
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“Hey, I’ve Got That Font” by The Gothsicles →
Call yourself a font nerd? Dance now.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hey-ive-got-that-font-featuring/id204317014?i=204317063&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
December 2011
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Helfa
I’m proud to announce that my latest typeface, Helfa is now available and you can get the regular and italic fonts for free (details below).
Helfa is a new, original typeface that has been in the making over the course of the last four years. The original impetus for Helfa was in challenging myself to create a typeface that I could rely on for use in my own graphic design work. So I set out to...
November 2011
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Funding New Fonts
Thoughts on the recent trend of microfunding the development of new typefaces
Traditionally there have been basically two ways to fund the development of a new typeface: Externally, as a commision, wherein a client pays a designer or foundry to create a new typeface. Or internally, as a speculative project self-financed by a designer or foundry (usually in the form of time away from paid...
Paola Antonelli on Contemporary Type Design →
An excellent article on contemporary type design by Paola Antonelli a critic and Curator for NY MoMA
“…Font design might just be the most advanced form of design existing today.” —Paola Antonelli
February 2011
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Cortina by Joachim Müller-Lancé
Last week, after some work by Joachim Müller-Lancé and I that took a little over a month to complete, Cortina became available once again. This is the first of several of his typefaces that were a part of the TypeBox foundry to be updated and re-released in OpenType format through my foundry, Delve Fonts.
When it first came to my attention late last year that these fonts Joachim did while he was...
December 2010
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May 2010
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February 2010
2 posts
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Negative Width = Positive Outcome
Among the type services I offer at Delve Fonts is Quality Assurance Testing of font data. Recently as part of some tests for a client, I discovered a problem and a solution I’d like to share.
The problem: While viewing a document, Adobe Acrobat presents a notice “A number is out of Range”. In addition, while it wasn’t visible in the application (InDesign in this case) the spacing appeared to be...
January 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
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Up for Consideration: Copyleft Publications
As I have an interest in all things font, a few recently published books related to letters and numerals recently came to my attention. The first was on the subject of the Arabic Alphabet, and the next on Roman Numerals and finally Mapping Unicode Characters. On closer examination, I discovered that the exclusive source of the contents of these books are articles available free to all, on...
A hint for Santa... →
Gimme gimme! I want it!
Limited edition, classy type-goodness stuff.
Lookout Web, Typekit has launched! →
Attention Web Designers and Webmasters: My friends over at Small Batch have just launched Typekit; A subscription service for fonts so you can use real fonts on your websites. This is big. I expect to see web fonts become much more widely used now.
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Ysobel Pro →
For those of you who may have missed it, Ysobel Pro by Robin Nicholas, myself, and Alice Savoie was released last month. I worked on this typeface while I was a type designer for Monotype Imaging. It is built for use in newspapers, magazines, or other such application.
October 2009
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Delve Fonts on Facebook →
Become a fan of my little foundry, Delve Fonts, on Facebook.
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