Typographica
A review of #lettering and #typography. Since 2002. Posts by editor @stewf.com.
Primarily on Mastodon with many from the type community: typo.social/@typographica
- Following a clear lineage from her Lo-Res to Modula to Program, Zuzana Licko’s newest design is the perfect marriage of her past experiments with variable technology: www.emigre.com/Fonts/Modula... #ZuzanaLicko #EmigreFonts #Fonts #TypeDesign
- Bram Stein and @josesole.bsky.social’s extremely thorough Fonts chapter of the Web Almanac is out: almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts #Fonts #WebDesign #Webfonts
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- Look at the consistency between these two signs that hang on either side of the room at Don’s Donuts in Arcata, CA. That’s just solid brush work. #SignPainting #Signs #Lettering #ArcataCA
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- CCA sells to Vanderbilt. The century-old school will close after the 2026–27 academic year. Vanderbilt announcement: news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/01/13/v... CCA president’s message: cca.edu/about/vander... FAQ: portal.cca.edu/transition/c...
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- A reminder that Apple’s (not Hoefler’s) Hoefler Text: is buggy. Hyphens and dashes are in the cap position (too high). It’s been reported many times on Apple’s feedback site and mentioned to various employees. Perhaps Apple has simply decided that this is not a bug. #HoeflerText #Apple #Fonts
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- The Flickr album of my favorite signs just passed 100: www.flickr.com/photos/stewf... Here’s the map view: www.flickr.com/photos/stewf... As always, Flickr remains the best place to store, organize, and share photos. #Signs #Lettering #Photography #Flickr
- Highly professional adaptive reuse. Pee Wee’s Pizza, San Leandro, CA. 2009 www.flickr.com/photos/tspau... 2025 maps.app.goo.gl/8sXiQKst6bVL... #Signs #Neon #NeonSigns #Oakland #SanLeandro
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- Want to use the Adobe Fonts service but don’t want to pay $70/month for Creative Cloud? You can subscribe to InCopy for $5/month (which includes Adobe Fonts): www.adobe.com/plans/creati... Just learned this from Tom Phinney: typedrawers.com/discussion/c...
- “For a division that promised better services, the NDS’s first releases are remarkably devoid of services altogether. Of the four (soon to be five) public-facing projects associated with NDS, none meaningfully connect users to a government system where any real task can be completed.”
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- The State Dept. font story is pretty silly, but I like that it gives the public a chance to learn more about a craft they encounter every day. Here’s the designer of Calibri, Luc(as) de Groot, on CNN talking parameters and spindly serifs. video.snapstream.net/Play/2UPcOhf...
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- A deep bow to @kellianderson.bsky.social for the astonishing ambition of Alphabet in Motion. My favorite pop-up mechanisms are those that clearly explain principles of type design that are difficult to show in static images: #KelliAnderson #PopupBooks #TypeDesign #Lettering
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- Still my favorite photo and caption in any book ever. (Muriel Cooper, by Daniel Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger. MIT Press, 2017.) #MurielCooper
