Typography

InDesign Inspiration

Nick Sherman uses Adobe InDesign for everything from band buttons to cookbooks for kids with cancer. Check out his work in this inspiring article.

P22 Font Playing Cards

P22 type foundry announces the 2008 font playing card deck.

TypeTalk: Make the Most of What You Have

Many newer OpenType fonts have two kinds of numbers -- one for tables, and one for text. But when a typeface includes only basic tabular numerals, this hidden command helps them look their best.

TypeTalk: Say What?

When it comes to choosing and setting type, there's a difference between readability and legibility.

TypeTalk: The Case of the Mysterious Missing Fonts

Your software says that a font's in your document, even when you can see it's not, or that a font is missing, even when you know you haven't used it. Here's how to crack the case.

TypeCon2008 Registration is Now Open!

The event features more than 70 legends and innovators and explores type for the screen, printing history, Dutch design, type in motion, the American Arts and Crafts movement, Arabic calligraphy and typography, and much more.

Signs and Symbols: New Book from Rotovision

Book is part of the Comunicating with Pattern series.

A Summer Camp for Type Lovers

Type Camp Galiano will be held 3-8 August 2008 on Galiano Island, British Columbia

Use Any Font in a Web Site Design

There have always been two certainties in Web design: You can never have enough bandwidth, and all Web design must rely entirely on fonts installed on the viewer’s computer. But thanks to sIFR, at least one of these so-called inescapable certainties is wrong.

Get Creative Video: News for the Week of May 26, 2008

Merge individual shots into a panorama, get a free book on Photoshop for the Web, laugh at some bad retouching, and more!

TypeTalk: When In Rome

If you've ever wondered what the word "Roman" means in typography terms, here's your answer.

TypeTalk: You Dingbat!

Call them dingbats, ornamentals, or decorative fonts. No matter what the name, these typefaces are great additions to your design toolbox.

Get Creative Video: News for the Week of May 12, 2008

PDF slicing and dicing; easy Web analytics; and free publications on type and paper.

TypeTalk: Spot OpenType Fonts Fast

Here's how to tell whether a font is OpenType without leaving your page-layout app.

P22 Type Foundry and the International House of Fonts Announce P22 Sneaky Pro By Award Winning Type Designer Michael Clark

New typeface shares qualities of the popular Pooper Black

TypeTalk: Good-looking Figures

What are the differences between "oldstyle" and "lining" figures, and what situations call for which kind of numbers?

Create Clipping Paths without Photoshop

Here's how to cut out an image using only QuarkXPress.

Scanning Around with Gene: The Islands and Bridges of Stencils

Stencil lettering may seem like the crudest form of marking there is, but at one time cutting attractive stencils was a true art form.

TypeTalk: Text Fonts versus Display Fonts

What's the difference between text and display fonts? And which ones can you use where?

Font Fetish: Jonathan Barnbrook

See what this brilliant designer is doing now.