Here’s a short NYT slideshow about the development of new signage typography for American roadways. Reminds me of a lecture that I attended concerning Jock Kinneir’s Transport typeface and some of the testing that went into its development. Personally, I prefer Transport to Clearview, but any improvement in legibility for drivers is a good thing.
Tag: typography
The Trajan Inscription
A good scanned photo of the Trajan Inscription. It’s covered up in scaffolding and hasn’t been able to visible in years.
Short typography movies
Google maps typography
Google maps typography. Rhett Dashwood culled a series of satellite images from the state of Victoria that resemble letterforms.
Comic Sans documentary
A short student documentary about Comic Sans that Marc mentioned after my previous post.
H&FJ on typesetting large prime numbers
Hoefler & Frere-Jones explore typesetting the world’s largest prime number. The largest prime number has more than twelve million digits, and concluded that even one specific kern pair would save hundreds of feet.
Spiekermann’s tips
WSJ on Comic Sans
A Wall Street Journal article on Comic Sans, its lovers and its haters. Vincent Connare also gets the WSJ portrait treatment.
Layered Fonts
FF Dingbats 2 is reworked and updated to reflect current technology. It also makes use of OpenType features that allow each pictogram to be treated a series of layers that can be coloured independently.
Malabar
Dan Reynolds has released Malabar, an oldstyle serif typeface designed for extended reading. He also posted an article about it over at iLT. The font is available in six weights from Linotype.