Sat.Oct 26, 2013 - Fri.Nov 01, 2013

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Captain Ratbeard

Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

This is a bit of a jump from my previous post 'Cheetah chase' (more on that later). Below you can see a detailed rough of the next animal painting to go with my recent series of work. I've decided to call him Captain Ratbeard, his long beard is braided but unlike Blackbeard it's not smouldering - I didn't think his hairs would stay lit in such a terrible sea storm.

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Fonts For The Web: Two Lectures by Jonathan Hoefler, November 2 & 14

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

What makes a good web font? Before we wrote the first line of code for Cloud.typography , or lit the first pixel of our first ScreenSmart font, we began the search for a solution to this riddle. The answers are unexpected: a good web font is more than just legible, and more than just attractive, and some provocative solutions come from some unexpected places.

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