Talking Type

A look into the Troy font and all it’s glory.

After conducting research through the Adobe Typekit I have made the decision to move forward with the typeface known as “Fairwater” for…

In 2004, Jim Parkinson of Parkinson publishing company created Amador, a black letter font “designed in the spirit of the Arts & Crafts…

I have friend, in the TXST COMDES program, who once talked to me about Emil Ruder saying he would be a persons name I should remember. The…

It is difficult to discuss Modern grid structures in printed media without studying it’s Classical grid structures. Essentially, both are…

When exploring modern grids, I found myself particularily drawn to the Bauhaus, German styles. I like the look of the clean and simple…

To start off, this particular font was founded by Lettersoup and was a digital extension to the alphabet designed in 1997 by the very…

After studying and working with Traditional Typesetting as a class, we moved onto the Modern Grids.

Dutch type designer Evert Bloemsma created the script ‘FF Cocon’ for the publisher FontFont in 2001 to be a suitable font for advertising…

Modern typography and has evolved with the development of modern typefaces and type foundries. Its origins begin in Switzerland and in…

When looking through the wide selection of books available at the library, one, in particular, caught my eye with its use of colors and…

The design process for Beatrice Warde’s essay, The Crystal Goblet (or Printing Should Be Invisible), using a traditional typographic…

Justified can mean different things, but in this case, it means how the body of the text is aligned. Justified text was widely whenever…

By Chris Lamb

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

In today’s type world, typography is used just about everywhere. From the clothes you wear to the websites you view to the commercials on…

The text above is a page from the book, Museum Skepticism, A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries by David Carrier. The…

There is type in use all around us. Not only as a form of communication, type is used to covey mood, importance of the content, and…

To truly appreciate what you have, it can often be of great benefit to understand the sequence of events that allowed you to be in a…

When in my Typography class my Professor wanted to take us to the library that way we could look at books that the librarian had picked

In a lot of the old-styled texts that were made available to me, they all seem to follow a similar grid system where there was a large…