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Re: Read Between The Leading - This week on the show we had a conversation with...

ilovetypography — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:46:31 -0000

Nick is a great talent. I have one of his letterpress posters — it’s stunning. Great to hear him speak. Now I just need to have him write something for ILT.

Keep up the great work guys. This redesign is much better. You’ll be sticking with Tumblr? No WordPress (with audio hosted on Tumblr?)

Re: Twitter co-founder, others back Small Batch’s web typography

ilovetypography — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:39:41 -0000

Now that’s news — great news. Will be interesting to see how things take shape from here. Very interested to learn who will initially be on board. Congratulations to Veen & Co.

Re: Read Between The Leading - On this week’s episode we talk to Stephen Coles of...

ilovetypography — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:45:22 -0000

Best episode yet. Stephen's a great asset to the type community. Great show, guys. Sound is A1 today.

Re: Read Between The Leading - On this week’s episode we talk to John Boardley...

ilovetypography — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:38:22 -0000

Andy

I still haven't listened to the podcast, but from memory, here are some of the others I think I mentioned: Newzald, Lexicon by Bram de Does, Feel Script by Ale Paul, Kinescope by Mark Simonson, and Swift by Gerard Unger.

I've also been compliing a list of 100 of my favourite typefaces, so keep a look out for that. Compliing the list didn't take long. It's preparing the specimens that does.

Re: Read Between The Leading - On this week’s episode we talk to John Boardley...

ilovetypography — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:48:53 -0000

David:
Pleased to see there's someone old enough to remember Peter & Jane. Redsil.com was retired a little while ago. The domain name came up for renewal, and I let it go. I hadn't updated it in over a year, and iLT keeps me pretty busy. Anyway, it did get me started.

Re: Read Between The Leading - On this week’s episode we talk to John Boardley...

ilovetypography — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:39:50 -0000

«The idea that Japanese is just monspaced is way off the mark,...»

Not at all. Note that I think qualified “Monospaced” with “fundamentally” or “basically” (I haven’t listened to the recording yet). While many Japanese typefaces are proportionally spaced, they more often than not comprise subsets of what are, in effect, monospaced glyphs. For example, the Kanji might share one advanced width, while the Hiragana another, and the Katakana yet another. Add to this that numerous Japanese typefaces have sparsely populated kerning tables (if any), and the overall impression is of a monospaced typeface.

The article that you mention outlines some sound tips, especially when it comes to spacing; e.g. more complex, multi-stroke characters should be set more loosely; conversely, Katakana are best spaced a little tighter than is the custom. It’s certainly a challenge to set Japanese type well, and especially difficult to achieve even texture/colour.

What you write about the tendency to distort text is unfortunately quite true; and so is the habit of applying a stroke to substitute for heavier weights that more often than not, simply don’t exist. And that’s another challenge of designing Japanese type — more complex characters easily become clogged and illegible once one begins to increase the stroke weight.

Well, you’ve inspired me to actually get on and write something about Japanese typography. If you have something you’d like to say, then feel free to mail me.

Re: Read Between The Leading - On this episode we have special guest Mark...

ilovetypography — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:10:33 -0000

Great show guys. I'm listening to it now. Thrilled that you have Mark on the show.
Will really try to make time to come on the show soon. Looking forward to it.

Re: Read Between The Leading - On this episode we’re joined by special guests...

ilovetypography — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:46:54 -0000

You have a listener in Japan too.
Doing a great job, guys.

Re: Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails… | Laughing Squid

ilovetypography — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:24:12 -0000

Thanks for sharing this. A great set of ads, They might be a parody of the Mac ad's, but very well executed, and the points well made. My favourite is the Java vs Ruby ad.