Jay Robinson

Tag: typography

  • Font or Typeface?

    Font or Typeface?I wasn’t completely clear on their usage, so I googled it, and this was the best result: the physical embodiment of a collection of letters, numbers, symbols, etc. (whether it’s a case of metal pieces or a computer file) is a font. When referring to the design of the collection (the way it…

  • Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters. Matthew Carter

  • Found type in Rome by Paul Soulellis. This sign simply reads “cheese,” yet it’s beautiful. See the rest of the set by clicking through.

  • Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures: Improved handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in modern browsers using the text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; declaration. The declaration is currently supported by: Safari, The Webkit Nightlies & Chrome. Firefox already uses optimizeLegibility by default.

  • Khoi Vinh: Better Screen, Same Typography Via 2105

  • Tyler Gaw constructed his own kinetic type video. Usually, you have to make videos like this using Adobe After Effects, but instead Tyler uses WebKit CSS properties and some JavaScript. Check it out the “video” and the source code on Tyler’s site.

  • The layout of this PDF is beautiful. So is the guy’s logo and website. This guy has it going on … graphically. Via BarackObama.com.

  • Criticizing Apple advertising for typography mistakes

    Criticizing Apple advertising for typography mistakes Double tick marks are used to denote things like inches of length, seconds of time, and double prime in mathematics. But they are not now, nor will they ever be, American quotation marks. Via A Thousand Times No.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_BYIzWN7w Lupe Fiasco – He Gets the Girl. Via Avenues.