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RM Regular
Foundry: HypeForType RM Regular is a simple, clean and legible sans-serif type font. A great alternative to Arial, Helvetica or Gotham, RM Regular is the perfect choice for professionals. Designed in 2011, RM Regular is the first font to be released from Essex based design studio Mash Creative®.From signs to minds—Can cartographic signs be superior to regular direction signs? 2013/03/18 In a scientific study, Michaela Skiles from Middlebury, Vermont has tested, if simplified maps on signs could not only get people to their destination, but also help them to construct a better mental map, which would improve the understanding of the surrounding and help with orientation and navigation in the future. In this guest article, [...] “The Geometry of Type”, 100 typefaces explained by typographer Stephen Coles 2013/03/07 If you enter the field of typography today, you are very likely overwhelmed by the diversity of the available typeface. You can choose from over 20.000 type families at MyFonts alone. How should one ever get to understand the differences in style and quality and learn how to chose the right typefaces for a certain [...]
Ralf Herrmann: Wayfinding & Typography |
On this Valentine’s week, we are pleased to announce another labor of love by our master of the calligraphic script, Richard Lipton. With typefaces like Avalon , Sloop , and Tangier , Lipton continually transforms the elegance of pen-on-paper into beautiful, functional fonts. His latest is Savanna Script . More ...
Font Bureau Blog
Wacom have (finally) started sending out orders of their new product, the Inkling . I got mine the other day and I’ve been having a good play with it. It’s very good. Not perfect, but very good. The announcement video set some very high expectations, some of which are matched by reality, while some… aren’t.
The Ministry of Type
Although its release is still almost two months away, anticipation for The Dark Knight Rises – the third act in Christopher Nolan’s re-imagination of the Batman mythos – is… errr… rising to a fever pitch. This is partly due to the incredible success of that other superhero blockbuster The Avengers which has been shattering all kinds of box office records (over 1 billion dollars!?). Nolan’s stylishly contemporary and edgy version may make us forget that Batman’s adventures on the screen started in a rather goofy way. The deliciously campy television series , in which the ludicrously straightlaced Caped Crusader battled evil in this parody of the comics, ran for three seasons from 1966 to 1968.
Holy Onomatopoeia, What A Bat-collection!
28 Top Typography Blogs Ranked by Top Graphic Design Blogs | BonFX – Freelance Graphic Designer
By Douglas Bonneville on September 23, 2009 Grab your beveled pica ruler, Letraset rub downs, and your favorite browser. We did some fresh research to discover what the best typography blogs are, according to the top graphic design blogs . We went through our own lists (see Related Posts below) of top graphic design blogs, some other lists, and tallied up all of their recommendations, comments, and anecdotal data to discover the 28 top typography blogs . We sorted the list from “most recommended” down to “regular recommended”.