Category Archives: Typography
A photo is worth…well…lotsa words
iPHONE APPS ARE FUN. Fun to experiment with. Fun to show off. Fun to…well, they’re just fun. But occasionally, an app comes along that can used to help create a “serious” design. One of those apps popped up during a recent web-surfing … Continue reading
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Putting our fonts on the table
WE ALL HAVE our favorite typefaces. Well, we ought to! My favorites usually run to the serifs: Kepler, Photina, Bodoni, Baskerville, Garamond Condensed. But then, I’m also partial to some sans serifs: Akzidenz Grotesk, Antenna, Vonnes, Tasse. And then, there … Continue reading
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Makin’ it better
I’M NOT REALLY SURE we can think of ourselves as news designers without having a strong respect and love for typography. After, all, type is about 80 percent of what we do! So when I come across a little piece … Continue reading
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Typography: Font design
“IT’S SO MUCH A PART of our daily life that it’s invisible—yet quite visible.” The quote is from Steven Heller, author of more than 90 books on design and typography, talking about type design. I’d recommend any of Heller’s books … Continue reading
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Typenovation: To get your juices flowing
FROM THE FOLKS at www.fromupnorth.com, some examples of innovative typographic thinking. Not the stuff you’re gonna use on the front of a weekly newspaper…or…would ya?
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Typography: a quick look
HERE’S A SHORT FILM on some of the basic elements of typography—and why good typography is important. On a scale of one-to-ten, most newspapers are at a typographic six. And some are…four. Too many fonts, text that’s too small, headlines … Continue reading
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More on text fonts
LAST WEEK’S ENTRY on text fonts drew a quick question from frequent contributor Kristin Coker: “Ed: What are your feelings on QuioscoTwo?” I responded: “See the blog next week.” It’s next week. This is QuioscoTwo, from the FontBureau (www.fontburea.com): I … Continue reading
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Help with drop initials: from Joan Brees | Brooks & County Chronicle
EARLY THIS MONTH, I received an email from Joan Brees, owner/publisher of the Brooks & County Chronicle in Alberta. Joan is a subscriber to my column and hints (are you?) and her note was in reaction to a recent series … Continue reading
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Look! Up in the title! It’s a real apostrophe!
THANKS TO DAVID MERRILL, IT and Graphics Manager at Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assn., I now have a real apostrophe in the blog title at the very top of this (and other) pages! David had promised that he would help me … Continue reading
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Comic Sans…blech!
WHO IS THIS MAN…and why do we care? His name is John Connare and he is the designer of Comic Sans, one of the most maligned (deservedly so!) typefaces ever developed. John Stossel’s report on three most common design mistakes, … Continue reading
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