Archive: Typography category
Being in a font design sort of mood, I was reading last month's MyFonts newsletter interview with Jim Parkinson, and I came across this bit on how he starts out:
Every alphabet or typeface I did from Hallmark on until the End of Analog was done in essentially the same ...
On days when I'm tired (like today), it seems like designing is a whole lot easier than writing. Drafting out the new stake leadership directory went smoothly, but even just the thought of writing was enough to make me want to take a nap. (Which is what I ...
Just now I was browsing through the children's classics section of the bookstore, the titles catching my eye with delight as memories of childhood swept over me. There were some editions that looked rather nice until I opened them up. Pathetic typography. Zero margins, or Times New ...
A few scattered thoughts:
1. To actively develop my photography skills, I'm going to choose a weekly theme (which will end up as a set in Flickr) and make an effort to find photo opps that fit. Things like "hope," "yellow," and "triangle," for example. This week the theme ...
I was reading my Penguin Classics edition of War and Peace the other day and noticed, to my astonishment, widows and orphans all over the place. And quite often there were lines at the end of a paragraph with less than five characters. Picking up my copy of ...
I'm happy to report that I figured out an intermediary solution to typesetting Hebrew and Arabic in InDesign. What I do is pull the text into TextEdit (and I suppose Word would work just as well), format it the way I want (right-to-left), and print it to PDF. ...
I tried to typeset some Hebrew in InDesign today. Doesn't work. Apparently InDesign doesn't support right-to-left text flow -- not unless you have the Middle East edition. ~sigh~ Hopefully Creative Suite 3 will integrate that. So much for my bilingual psalter...
In other news, I've been working ...
Came across a good article on paper at Creative Pro, Paper Tips: Going Against the Grain. Also found Mark Boulton's Five Simple Steps to Better Typography. His is a beautiful site, very clean and elegant. In the comments to one of the articles on his ...
I was looking at Mike Clark's TextMate Cheat Sheet for Rails Hackers a minute ago and saw the Command key sign (⌘, if your font has it). It was the first time I realized that the symbol had to be in a font somewhere (yes, I know, I'm ...
After being sick for almost a week now, I've decided to start doing homework so that I'll be caught up when I finally do get better. For my History of the Book class, we've started reading Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style, which is an amazing book. ...
