You Can Avoid These Typography Mistakes Avoiding typography mistakes takes a keen eye, a deft hand, and plenty of patience. However, being precise need not be overwhelming. Brushing up on…
I’m frequently asked by aspiring designers and students alike about the best way to build a type library. With the evergrowing number of font resources – from the small, independent…
If you've ever felt like you didn't know how to find the right font, you're not alone. Even seasoned designers sometimes find themselves in the same boat, especially when they're…
Hyphenation is a common occurrence in typography, especially in narrow columns of type. This “necessary evil” is used to create better looking, tighter rags in non-aligned margins, as well as…
Designer Brooke Bucherie, from Austin, Texas, was obsessed with type and hand lettering, so she collected it ... sort of. She randomly gathered screen shots of type she loved online,…
A type super family is a family of typestyles that are united in some way, usually sharing the same basic foundation and structure, but with different finishing details. Most commonly,…
Bodoni is Bodoni is Bodoni – right? Not necessarily. There are several reasons why your version of a font might be different from someone else’s, or even another of your…
With the end of 2014 near, it's time to reflect on what happened in design. We said goodbye to a design legend, and witnessed the legal battle of one of…
Designing a wordmark* is part science and part feeling. As I learned in Michael Stinson’s Logo Design: Wordmarks class, the science of it has been lost in most modern design…
To master anything in life, one has to master the fundamentals. Once we master the skills, then we can truly learn how to find our own style—performing the fundamentals becomes…
