Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 26, 2008
It was not a dark, stormy night at the H&Co offices, and she was not a dame in a red dress who spelled trouble with a capital T. It was last Friday afternoon, and the caller was Bill Bastone, founder and editor of The Smoking Gun, with a question about forensic typography. The story begins with last week’s report by the Los Angeles Times that murdered rapper Tupac Shakur was assassinated by associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Illustration Art
MARCH 3, 2008
This famous portrait by Gustav Klimt was displayed for years as a "national treasure" in a public palace in Vienna. Nations fought over it. Teams of lawyers, diplomats and politicians debated the painting's ownership in front of international tribunals. The US Supreme Court analyzed its status under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Eventually, the picture was purchased for $135 million, the most expensive painting in history up to that time.
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 26, 2008
It was not a dark, stormy night at the H&Co offices, and she was not a dame in a red dress who spelled trouble with a capital T. It was last Friday afternoon, and the caller was Bill Bastone, founder and editor of The Smoking Gun, with a question about forensic typography. The story begins with last week’s report by the Los Angeles Times that murdered rapper Tupac Shakur was assassinated by associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 13, 2008
A nifty feature of Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) is Quick Look , a tool in the Finder that allows you to preview collections of files at a glance. Popular for images, Quick Look is useful for fonts as well, as it allows both styles and families to be examined without leaving the Finder. In the Finder, select a bunch of fonts and hit the space bar.
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 7, 2008
Our designers are often asked if there are particular letters that we especially enjoy drawing. Office doodles testify to the popularity of the letter R , perhaps because it synopsizes the rest of the alphabet in one convenient package (it’s got a stem, a bowl, serifs both internal and external, and of course that marvelous signature gesture, the tail.
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 27, 2008
Totally loving today: This video for Justice’s DVNO, designed by Machine Molle. It just gets better and better; wait for the very end. The very end. —JH. Update: DVNO logos explained.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 17, 2008
Three of my favorite things are big type , chromatic type , and type specimen books , and St. Patrick’s Day offers the perfect occasion to bring all three interests to the table, literally. Parked here at our conference table is the 1904 type specimen of the Roman Scherer company, a wood type manufacturer in Luzern who specialized in two-color type.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 13, 2008
Writing about the glories of the nixie tube last December, I wondered aloud whether there’s anyone alive who has any affection for the ubiquitous LED display. Today I have my answer. At RISD, BFA candidate Alvin Aronson has made the witty and beautiful “d/a clock,” in which seven-segment LED numbers are made manifest in Corian and wood.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 12, 2008
My last post made passing mention of the pleasures of designing the paragraph mark, prompting one reader to rightly ask, “how much fun can it really be to draw a backwards P ?” [ No more fun than it is to draw the rest of that font you’re using, matey. —Ed. ] It may not seem obvious, but the lowly paragraph mark really does offer ample opportunity for invention.
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