SteveMacKley design

Work on the Heavy/ Extra Bold weight of Silverback  is progressing nicely (if not frantically).  First pass at the Glyphs is done, with a ton of tweaks ahead.  No spacing or kerning  is really done yet, but that will come in time.  This weight along with the regular will be used to interpolate the rest [...]

Stephen Coles of Typographica and The Mid-Century Modernist has posted an interseting critique of the iPad and typography. In short, is disappoints. What the iPad is Missing (No, it’s not a Camera)

I know there a ton of color tools for designers on the web, but I have to give a shout-out for Color Scheme Designer. Titled towards Web design (no CMYK), it still is one of the most intuitive tools for quickly developing color schemes.  Plus it can show you what the scheme will look like [...]

The incomparable Gerrit Noordzij visited TypeMedia last March 25, 2010 and talked about type and drawing.  The video is well worth the watch. http://new.typemedia.org/blog/2010/mar/29/noordzij-on-drawing/ More pictures in the TypeMedia flickr group. (via Erik van Blokland and the TypeMedia Blog)

I Love Typography has posted a woderful article by Gerry Leonidas (Senior Lecturer in Typography at the University of Reading—UK and Programme Director of the MA in Typeface Design).  Entitled A few things I’ve learned about typeface design Mr. Leonidas covers his observations about typeface design (and its pedagogy). Some of the pertinent topics include: 1. Design [...]

House Industries has released its Eames Century Modern collection.  Designed by Erik van Blokland the collection contains an amazing amount of mid-century type-love: 26 Fonts 18-Style text family with italics 9 Figure Styles Advanced Text Handling 4 Numeral Fonts 3 Frame Fonts Smart Ornaments Font My undying admiration and fascination with all things Eames is [...]

TDC2, the annual type design competition organised by the Type Directors Club of New York is about to announce its winners.  Prior to this Yves Peters from the FontFeed examines the TDC2 in a post entitled,TDC2, The Oscars Of Type Design. While Mr. Peters is generally positive about the competition, he does outline some of TDC2′s [...]

As I learn the vagaries of Hindi form my wife and her family, I am always considering the opportunities for developing Indian fonts.  Of course I ‘ve been beaten to the punch. The Indian Type Foundry—whose earlier  Devanagari companion to Fedra Sans typeface, Fedra Hindi looks great—has posted some updates on its facebook page.  Kohinoor Latin [...]

Following on the hugely successful Unimark book signing event last December—sponsored the STA, designer Kevin Rau is offering the Unimark poster, art directed by his teacher, mentor and Unimark principal, John Rieben. In addition Kevin has designed a Helvetica poster that honors the ubiquitous typeface. Both are available for purchase on his website: www.rauhaus.biz.

I suppose I’m known to be a bit of a type junkie.I admit it is a bit of a problem. Nonetheless, I must confess I am not a steeped in the vagaries of blackletter as I could be. Given this, I am more than pleased to see Dan Reynolds latest piece for I Love Typography (ILT) [...]