Posts about Typography (RSS, JSON)

1PM — The hardest working font in Manhattan. Gorton, the font doing the work, is so ubiquitous, once you’ve read this piece you’ll see it everywhere.

6PM — Monaspace, released by Github, is a family of five variable monospace fonts that can be mixed because they all adhere to the same grid.

2PM — Wilco Loft Sans. Type designer Dan Cederholm teamed up with alternative rock band Wilco to create a font based on signage from their studio.

5PM

Fantastic explanation of the inner workings of the Linotype machine, a typesetting machine that was used for typesetting until the 1980s when it was replaced by phototypesetting and digital technologies. (via)

10AM — The University Library in Basel digitised a 775-page, 1860s type specimen catalog from the Haas Type Foundry—a long time before Helvetica. (via)

5PM

Ellen Lupton talks us through the history of the Bauhaus and various typographic works from the collections of the Letterform Archive and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.