An interesting set of advertising posters from the 1950s recently uncovered at the Notting Hill Gate tube station in London. The passageway had been sealed off when the lifts were replaced with escalators.
Helvetify for Safari. Helvetify is an extension that basically sets
Helvetify for Safari.
Helvetify is an extension that basically sets the web page’s font to, yes, Helvetica (Neue to be exact.) With Safari 5, Helvetica on the web truly looks beautiful.
Helvetica Trade Advertising 02 Print design and production Volume 2
Helvetica Trade Advertising 02
Print design and production
Volume 2 – Issue 6, 1966
From the archive of Michael Hernan
Type Shirts from DADADA Studio.
Type Shirts from DADADA Studio.
So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
I’ve taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I’ve redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?
Google type
Typekit and Google have teamed up to create the open-source WebFont Loader. The software can make use of Typekit’s extensive library, Google’s new collection of webfonts or it can be self-hosted.
Writing systems of the world
The Beauty of Typography: Writing Systems and Calligraphy of the World. An extensive introduction to a number of non-Western writing systems.
Pentagon brownie recipe
How to make brownies, Pentagon style. The 26 page specification, also known as MIL-C-44072C, is available for your perusal.
El Vética t-shirt. Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador.
El Vética t-shirt.
Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador. El Vética, also known as El Kernudo, fought out of the small town of San Serif. He held the Mexican Inter-Continental belt for an unprecedented 7 years, from 1977–84. He also starred in several telenovelas, most notably Las esposas del Luchador and El Santo y sus Súper Amigos.
Big bang
The Big Bang was an explosion of space, not in space.
The Big Bang wasn’t an explosion of stuff like atoms or molecules, it was an explosion of a place and instance, it was the creation of when and where. Before the Big Bang there was simply nothing, there was no ‘where’ nor was there a ‘when’. It doesn’t even make sense to say ‘before the Big Bang’.
The differences between Akzidenz, Univers, Helvetica and Arial
Facebook privacy
A bewildering tangle of options. To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. The site has gone from walled garden to glass box on a busy street corner.