ISSN 1496-3221
April 25, 2003
This is big. As big as a pen and ink rendering of an Ed Benguiat swash cap. When a supa-cool boutique font outfit nabs one of the most amazing old school, film-based type collections around, it’s big. Really big. Yep, House Industries purchased Photo-Lettering. How big? “Physically, the collection takes up about 350 cubic ft … More
April 26, 2001
March 23, 2001
In the earlier releases of Mac OS X, there was a curious little fellow that lived in the Fonts panel called the “Buy Fonts” button. A few eyebrows were raised and collective mumblings were shared between onlookers of the typographic variety, and then the “Buy Fonts” button quietly slid out of view and out of … More
March 6, 2001
Building fonts for dead computing platforms. That’s what I think I should dedicate more of my waking hours to. And to start it off this evening, I installed Apple’s Newton Toolkit (NTK). Along with a plethora of standard programming environment goodliness, NTK allows you to take existing Mac OS bitmap typefaces and turn them into … More
March 5, 2001
Lucky me. I just stumbled across Jonathan Hoefler’s Geometer screen font packages over at his typography.com site. These bitmapped lovelies are Mac only (natch) and positively free for the taking. Give Geneva and Monaco a rest and grab some gorgeous alternatives to the default cast of characters usually found in Finder windows and email clients … More
June 19, 2000
Ever since Clive Bruton boarded up the windows on the FontZone site, I’ve been rather torn up inside by the fact that Microsoft now has the most comprehensive and well-maintained typography news pages around. I mean, it wouldn’t bother me so much if it was some half-assed, token link page surrounded by Word-formatted white papers … More