Archive for 'typography' Category
The Perfect Font
When we received the opportunity to rebrand the historic village of Tiverton Four Corners, one of our most exciting challenges was identifying the appropriate font. We began the hunt by looking at type faces originated in the late 17th and early 18th century, as the village was originally chartered in 1710. Like so many quaint [...]
MOMA Type Exhibit
MOMA has a lovely typography exhibit running through July 2010 which covers printed matter from the hugely influential New Typography (Die Neue Typographie) movement of the 1920’s and 30’s including pieces by designer Jan Tschichold. These concepts on layout design changed everything.
Check it out:
The New Typography
December 23, 2009–July 12, 2010
The NBC Font Fiasco
The NBC corporation is being sued for $2 million in damages over the use of fonts licensed from a font design studio called Font Bureau, out of Boston. The fonts in question are Bureau Grotesque, Interstate and Antenna.
The claim is that NBC only purchased a single-user license which seems implausable when you consider that these fonts are [...]