FontShop has published its July newsletter, online in all its glory. There's a free font (FF Good Wide Light) to sweeten the deal. More thanks to Stewf
What is six months between friends? Typographica has posted reviews of 23 families representing the cream of the 2006 crop. (Any lesser writer would make a pun about it being worth the weight, but I'd never be so crass. Honest.) Of the list, I'm predictably fond of the Guardian's new family, and Darka gives me that deeply internal, insecure feeling that translates into respect. Enjoy. Thanks, Stewf!
After a few days of being offline for a major server upgrade, Typophile is back, complete with more processor power, RAM and disk space, fewer bugs and the return of the Comment RSS feed. Hurrah!
The funky This Day in Type site has been going for about a month and a half and is building up quite a reasonable collection of dates for all you designers out there looking for a more open brief than the day job affords. Go have fun.
Lovely music, pretty graphics, slightly dodgy interface, nice type, high processor requirements (or perhaps a G4 processor just needs to be retired?) Welcome, Type City. Thanks, Yves!
The Telegraph is reporting that one of the first acts by new UK PM Gordon Brown is to change the standard email typeface from 12pt Times to 14pt Arial. The Torygraph refers to it as being "ascetic-looking", going on to point out that Gordon is blind in one eye. Yeah that's it, let's make accessibility within the context of a limited number of typefaces available to the widest number of computer users all about asceticism! Cheap shot. Source: MS Typo News
Should next mobile phone to be made in China, or Finland? Which handset is going to provide a smaller carbon footprint, and which will use fewer chemicals in production? Will the factory workers be represented by a union, and have benefits? Do you care, or are you more interested in the font used? Well fret no more! Aegir over at Ministry of Type has been blogging (again), this time comparing the typography used across the current crop of hot phones: the Apple iPhone, Nokia's latest s60 3rd edition and, of course, the Prada phone.
Aegir over at the Ministry of Type has posted about a set of typographic trailers that the National Geographic Channel here in the UK have been running. Created to advertise their Seconds From Disaster series, the trailers show a series of real-life scenarios composed entirely of distorted type.
