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Typography

Letter “Space”ing from Veer

May 25, 2009

Veer continues to offer up the occasional time waster, and their newest treat KERN IN SPACE may be short on productivity, but is big on fun (and frustration). Use the space bar to fire the engines, and the right and left arrows to gently drop the letter forms into their appropriate spaces. Good times, but [...]

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House Industries Welcomes Its Newest Member to the Neutraface Family

May 25, 2009

Since debuting in 2001, and then further refined with the addition of Neutraface No. 2′s more versatile crossbars, the Neutraface family has become something of a workhorse in the design industry. The recent addition of Neutraface Slab to the party gives this suite of “compatible” sans and serif faces some serious firepower. Featuring five display [...]

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iPhone Gets My Fonts’ Typeface Identification

February 14, 2009

Typophiles Rejoice. WhatTheFont is Here… and it’s Free. Let’s just get the bad news out of the way first. There are limitations to the iPhone’s camera that prevent focused photography of smaller typefaces, the app itself is hampered by some minor stability issues, and its photo recognition seems to struggle a bit with ornate or [...]

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Type Is Art: I Saught The Serif

January 4, 2009

TypeIsArt.com is the brainchild of Susanne Cetha & Terje Vist of Silo Design Inc. It’s an interactive art project that encourages users to play with small crops of the Stern Pro letterforms. This site is a ton of fun, and I found the gallery of saved user art to be wildly varied and often beautiful. [...]

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