typography – Page 8 – Dave Kellam

Eric Gill’s unreleased typeface

Eric Gill’s unreleased typeface. Dan went digging around the Monotype archives and found some engineering drawings and a trial print.

The Practice of Typography: Modern Methods of Book Composition by Theodore Low de Vinne is available in its entirety online. Originally published in 1904, the book is a treatise on typesetting and the arrangement of pages in books.

Trash Type, Rob Banham explores the lettering found on the side of wheelie bins. It’s something that I’ve always noticed too, maybe I’m just weird.

The top 10 typefaces used by AAUP book design winners. There aren’t any big surprises, but it’s a good list of sturdy typefaces.

FF Trixie has been updated and is looking good. I want it.

The lost art of type spec’ing. It can get even crazier when you look at the older designers like Tschichold, who could hand-draw type that looked like it was set by machine.

Here’s a small photoset (slideshow) featuring lettering and signage from Belfast. I particularly liked the Fishing & Tackle and the Tyrone Produce signs.

A Brief History of Emil Ruder, an introduction to one of the founders of the International Typographic Style and proponent of the grid.

52 fonts you could use instead of Helvetica. David is approaching the end of his series which highlights two typefaces from each letter of the alphabet.

Handwritten Typographers features handwriting scans from a number of prominent typographers.