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Typography Quote of the Day: Expression

April 12, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

from the book: Lettering & Type
“Faces of type are like men’s faces. They have their own expression; their complexion and peculiar twists and turns of line identify them immediately to friends, to whom each is full of identity.”

— J.L. Frazier

Filed Under: Typography

Typography Quote of the Day: Emotions

April 10, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

Designer: Gail Collins

“A love of letters is the beginning of typographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may evoke.”

– Designing with Type, James Craig

Filed Under: Typography

Mistral: Font choice of the gods

July 6, 2011 by Douglas Bonneville

What better topic for Mistral to be an appropriate font choice for, than a spoofy Italian movie about Hercules fighting against assorted masters of Karate, circa 1973? Perfect! … [Read More]

Filed Under: Typography

Typographic Portrait: Morris Fuller Benton typeset in Souvenir

February 1, 2011 by Douglas Bonneville

So I’m working on this big new post (check back soon) and I notice two curly quotes that for some reason struck me like they looked like that old-time barbershop down-the-middle hairstyle from the turn of the 20th century. I had typed the characters in the order they appeared on the keyboard (I had been typing just the keys with symbols) I happened to be looking at Souvenir, designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1903. So then I thought, “What are the chances that Benton has this exact hairdo?” Pretty high it turns out. The keystrokes looked like the beginning of a typographic portrait.

… [Read More]

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Typography Primer: all you need to know in one PDF

May 13, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

I came across this excellent PDF from Adobe that succinctly covers all the basic terms about typography. Download without delay and refresh your memory. It’s beautifully designed and easy to read with wonderful graphics. … [Read More]

Filed Under: Font Combinations, Typography

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