The latest posts tagged with “typography”
Wednesday — November 16, 2011
Smirking face character (via Shapecatcher.com: Unicode Character Recognition)
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unicode
typography
emoticon
smiley
ↂ is the Roman Numeral for ten thousand. (via Shapecatcher.com: Unicode Character Recognition)
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unicode
roman numerals
typography
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Kern Zip-up - Veer Merchandise - Veer.com
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kerning
typography
veer
zipup
apparel
howto
Beautiful job with the tight dof to provide a sense of scale.
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coliseum
type
typography
letterpress
cameron moll
photography
depth of field
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Cameron Moll’s Coliseum of Type.
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coliseum,
type
typography
letterpress
poster
cameron moll
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Typeface changes in the London Underground.
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london
tube
underground
subway
typography
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textorize: Pristine Font rendering for the Web | mir.aculo.us
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Another sub-pixel anti-aliasing solution… and an excellent exploit of the really awesome typography and subpixel antialiased font rendering that are already built in to Mac OS X.
I count myself among those frustrated with Photoshop’s poor font handling yet too lazy to dig up a suitable alternative. This looks interesting.
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font
typography
anti-aliasing
sub-pixel
osx
ruby
Nuance.
Arial versus Helvetica : clusterflock
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arial
helvetica
comparison
font
typography
Who knew there was a century-old mystery around the origin of the Times New Roman typeface?
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times new roman
typography
history
typeface
font
starling
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On May 4, 1536, Francesco Lapi—a Florentine merchant who at the time was in Seville, Spain—used the symbol @ in a letter, the first ever known instance of a document containing it. It didn’t have a domain name after it, however. Back then, he was referring to the number of “amphoras” that were shipped in three vessels which departed Spain on their way to Rome, Italy. An “amphora” was a commercial volume measure of those times.
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amphora
@
at sign
history
typography
Smashing Magazine and Ilya Birman teamed up to create a new typography keyboard layout for both Mac and Windows.
The idea is that it should help simplify some of the process for adding accent markings to letters and for inserting special characters like ™, ®, €, §, ↓, ↑, «, », ï, ö, ü, ĭ, ŏ, ŭ, etc.
It doesn’t offer all possible diacritical marks, and it’s subject to what the current application will allow, but it seems to work pretty okay for me.
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smashing magazine,
diacritical
typography
fonts
characters
ilya birman
keyboard
international
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The Origin of Lorem Ipsum →
Wow. Dates back to the 1500s.
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lorem
ipsum
history
typography
typesetting
1500
printer
type
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