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Typography Weekly #50
Suggested By Member Ric…
Erik Spiekermann on p98a’s innovative revival of the letterpress
“Since the advent of computers in our studios, we’ve all spent hours looking for the right typeface from thousands of choices, fussed with tiny increments in size, introduced refinements in OpenType fonts containing hundreds of ligatures, alternate characters and content-sensitive positions. And now ‘letterpress’ is back”
www.typeroom.eu
Suggested By Member De…
Monotype and MIT on typeface legibility
Monotype looks to encourage the use of easy-to-read typefaces.
Monotype is working with MIT AgeLab on new research looking at how easily typefaces can be read at a glance, reflecting our “increasingly fast-paced, information-gathering” culture.www.designweek.co.uk
Suggested By Member Ric…
In the halls of high-tech MIT, he still paints professors’ names on doors
“If a name appears written in black letters on a professor’s office door at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it’s more likely than not that Glenn Silva put it there with the delicate stroke of his paintbrush.”
www.bostonglobe.com
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