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Just implemented on our catalog page: Hover your mouse over one of the preview blocks to get a micro type specimen. And so I keep tinkering away on this site, hoping you will get a kick out of it. Go ahead and give it a whirl...
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Lately our list of frequently asked questions had grown to a length that started to stand in the way of its purpose: To quickly find the answer to an equally quick questions. Enter the tag cloud: Now you click one of the tags to view a subset of the available questions and boom, there is your answer. Go ahead and give it a whirl...
Martin Wenzel's latest creation is not only a whopper of a type family but it is quite clever too. Each font contains two sets of alternative, stylistic letterforms. Martin calls them Humanist and Grotesk. The two distinct and familiar flavors of typographic tradition are integrated into a single font by adding a number of alternate glyphs.
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http://coopertype.org/extended/
Last weekend I was invited to teach a workshop called Understanding and Experiencing the Designspace, at the Cooper Union's certificate program Type@Cooper. The students were an inspiration, and the Cooper Union is still simply one of the most gratifying places to teach. Check out the pictures after the jump...
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http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000M4R5K2
One of the great joys of being a type designer is when you pick up a book or a DVD and your own font is staring back at you. Yesterday, while browsing Amazon's suggestions this just happened to me: One of my first typefaces, published back in the day with FontShop International, the ffMutilated. Awesome, break out the Coke Zero!
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