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My Favorite Typography Blogs

June 25th, 2007

It has been a (very long) while since I written about design at all on this blog. In order to ease myself back into the design subject, I thought I would post some of my favorite typography blogs that I have found. I have come across some pretty hot typefaces through my browsing these sites - I know we are always itching to find that font family that will allow us to default back to Helvetica/Garamond. Font design is such an amazing craft in my opinion, that I enjoy looking at new typographic designs/trends whether I am looking for a new font or not.

Here is my list (in no particular order):

Please, do add to this list - I am dying to get some new sites to gawk at.
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Some Random (Pixel) Font

June 26th, 2006

I have had the deep desire to design my own font for quite some time. In fact, I still consider it to be one of the things on “the list” that I need to eventually do. While I cannot say that I have taken a full step towards that goal, perhaps I have taken a quarter of a step by creating my first pixel font. I obviously have no qualms with pixel design, but I do not hold pixel fonts even in the same remote level as traditional fonts. I can see Jan Tschichold, Paul Renner and Max Miedinger spinning in their graves at the mere mention that a pixel font would be put in the same sentence with traditional typographic design.

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Typographic Alternatives to Helvetica

June 23rd, 2006

It is well-known that the general public literally could not care less about typography. If you asked the average Joe or Jane on the street what Helvetica was, they would most likely know it was a font. On the other hand, if you asked them what Frutiger, Futura, Bodoni or Clarendon was, they most likely would not have clue. To say that Helvetica is a mainstream font is an understatement to say the least. Mainstream or not, Helvetica is an amazingly well-crafted font with one of the most abundant collections of weights. Its sterile, machinist design works well with traditional Swiss design and can aid in giving a cleaner typographical look. That being said, Helvetica is not your only choice for a machinist san serif font.
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