"The designer of type is often found to be the very man who is not invariably successful in his application of type since he often lacks the necessary critical distance from his own creation." - Emil Ruder in Typographie
Font Faces: Nick Shinn
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Read the book, Typographic Firsts
Welcome to the debut issue of Font Faces: the people behind the type. We
ask type designers from around the globe the s...
$$$Billions
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Every year(ish), since 2009, I’ve been gathering and visualising billions
from news headlines and reports. These gargantuan numbers often make little
sense...
Font Expressiveness Game
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We’re creating a new type specimen and need your help ranking 200+ fonts by
expressiveness — from most neutral to most characterful. Play pairwise
comparis...
Jim Parkinson, 1941–2025
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Jim Parkinson—lettering artist, type designer, and painter—died today at
his home in Oakland, California, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s.
The Magic Christian (1969)
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[image: The Magic Christian (1969) title sequence]Directed by: Joseph
McGrath Starring: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough, Raquel
Welch, Chr...
New graphic novel by Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng
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Dave and Hong Teng have surpassed themselves yet again, creating a forceful
epic laden with intrigue and adventure that is greater than the sum of
their ...