STA Holiday Auction 2009: December 2, 6-9p
Please Save the Date for the STA Holiday Auction at Alhambra Palace. December 2, 6-9p.
Won’t you consider making an Auction Donation or being a part of our Vendor Spotlight at the auction? All Auction proceeds benefit the STA Scholarship: Jack Weiss Founder Award.
UNIMARK International: December 11
The Society of Typographic Arts with AIGA/Chicago presents the Chicago launch of the long-anticipated book:
UNIMARK INTERNATIONAL
Friday, December 11, 2009
Venue to be determined.
Following on the comprehensive exhibition of UNIMARK, hosted by the STA in 2004, celebrate the USA launch of UNIMARK: THE BOOK! Based on archival material collected by John Rieben and presented by Kevin Rau in his exhibition – and research and interviews by author Jan Conradi, celebrate the definitive document about Chicago’s largest and most reknown design firm, Unimark International. Welcome the author, designer, and Unimark principal, Massimo Vignelli in this one-time historic event!
Info: jw@jackweissassociates.com
Somewhat old news now but a new white paper has been posted to the Microsoft Typography website. The paper was written by Greg Hitchcock and is about the Microsoft implementation of the TrueType interpreter. As I read it (and very slowly at that), this is helpful for those interested in ensuring that you older TT fonts will be optimal when utilizing Cleartype. (I’ve probable just butchered the whole white paper). Accorindingly this is form MS themselves…
With the implementation of ClearType® in Windows XP and later versions, adjustments were needed for the interpretation of some TrueType® instructions in order to allow existing fonts to work with no updates. This white paper is targeted for font designers and describes the instruction changes and how fonts can continue to have their instructions behave as described in the current OpenType® specification.
Note that this white paper is not part of the OpenType specification, and will not be submitted for inclusion in the ISO Open Font Format. It is provided solely to explain how Windows handles hinted fonts under ClearType rendering.
The paper can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/truetypecleartype.aspx
As interseting as the white paper was, the ensuing discussion on the Typophile forums was even more interesting.
http://typophile.com/node/62675
As an active member of Chicago’s own Society of Typographic Arts, I cannot recommned enough checking this out…
Archive09 Gala: An evening with Chicago’s most creative minds. 10/29. Register now. More info? www.sta-archive.com.
There has been a lot of buzz lately about webfonts. The new WOFF proposal is a step in the right direction, but getting your head around things is like herding cats. Thankfully Technology Review has published a nice article summarizing things. A Note on the Type: Font designers imagine a better-looking Web. If this article is too much I recommend H&FJ’s recent Show and Tell entry: FONTS ON THE WEB. It is distilled goodness.
The always interesting Zuzana Licko has designed a sans and modern companion to the prolific Mrs. Eaves.
At first blush, these look stellar. In particular the Sans appears to keep the trademark openness and low x-height of the original. I should have a more in-depth review upon purchase of this typeface.
More info at: http://www.emigre.com/EF.php?fid=213
