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Suggestions for next weeks' Type Battle?
Shout out your suggestions for next weeks' Typophile Type Battle.
New typeface Aeronaut: Blackletter meets Steampunk
This new typeface Aeronaut is like Blackletter meets Steampunk. Can't readily think of a use for this, but that won't stop me from admiring it.
The hottest Typophile content of 2009
Reviewing Typophile's Google Analytics reveals some interesting highlights from 2009. Presented in order of popularity, based on page views…
1// The high quality, free font, Quicksand from Andrew (aka alienbreed). The page had 127,035 views in '09 and is still going strong.
2// This handmade subpixel font thread blew up on Typophile: (87,901 views)
Punchcut confirmed to speak at SXSW 2010
For a third year in a row Punchcut will speak at SXSW Interactive in Austin. SXSW organizers have announced programming for 2010 and confirmed that Punchcut will present our talk Convergence: Already Here, and Gosh It's a Mess!.
Talk description: Convergence is here and it’s a big mess. People are using services and media within hacked-together ecosystems; systems without neat connections or beautiful symmetries. Punchcut will share the user insights and design principles needed to create applications and services that integrate into emerging digital lifestyles and convergent ecosystems.
Read the SXSW announcement: http://bit.ly/8BCAV5
Typophile to speak at Chronicle Books' 555 design event
Chronicle Books Design is hosting "5 Speakers / 5 Minutes / 5 Questions"; an evening of design-minded conversation and drinks, featuring five bloggers currently reporting on our visual world:
1 Dave Cuzner / http://grainedit.com
GrainEdit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period.
2 Joe Pemberton / http://www.typophile.com
Typophile is the end all, be all internet forum for typography lovers. It's a "gig" owned by Punchcut.
3 Suzanne LaGasa / http://www.chroniclebooks.com/blog/?cat=41
Indian Type Foundry (ITF) Launches
Peter Bilak, The Netherlands, and Satya Rajpurohit, India, have launched the Indian Type Foundry ( http://www.indiantypefoundry.com )to focus on Indic typefaces. Their inaugural font family extends Peter's classic sans typeface family Fedra to the Hindi alphabet.
From this mornings' press release:
Audi Gets a Brand Update
The always thoughtful Brand New has a write-up of the new Audi typeface and logo.
PowerPoint makes me weep inside
Why do you insist on resizing my text in a text box as I type!? (Even when I uncheck the "shrink text to fit" box.)
Why does copy/paste not retain basic stuff like font attributes (size, color, font even)?
Why is everything positioned relatively (and not with coordinates or measurements)?
PowerPoint is the anti-typography.
Srsly.
When Driving becomes Writing (Video)
You can download the free font: http://nl.toyota.be/iqfont
