Roof Kerning in Amsterdam | Typography Commentary | Typographica
http://typographica.org/on-typography/roof-kerning-in-amsterdam
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Behold this “artist impression” by Benthem Crouwel Architects of the glass roof on a new bus station behind the Amsterdam Central Station, currently under construction. The vast, curved roof is adorned with the word AMSTERDAM in large red-with-orange letters.
Chartwell | Typeface Review | Typographica
http://typographica.org/2012/typeface-reviews/chartwell
Chartwell is a set of three #fonts that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses #OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type.
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de la #typographie #sémantique !
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 | Typeface Reviews | Typographica
http://typographica.org/2012/features/our-favorite-typefaces-of-2011
After a long hiatus (inexcusably skipping 2009 and ’10) we’re back with our annual review of the year in type.
Explorations in Typography: Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting | Book Review | Typographica
http://typographica.org/2011/typography-books/explorations-in-typography-mastering-the-art-of-fine-typesetting
“Explorations in Typography” is arranged as a series of twenty-four chapters — the “explorations”. Using a short excerpt from Erik Spiekermann’s classic text, “Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works”, as a mantra, the book guides the reader through a kind of typographical meditation.
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