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Helvetica – A Documentary About a Typeface

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Helvetica by director Gary Hustwit is a documentary film about the eponymous Helvetica typeface and typography and visual design in general. Using Helvetica's simple elegance, usefulness, and ubiquity as both a starting point and a recurring theme, this documentary film features interviews with many design and typography legends and luminaries such as Jonathan Hoefler, Erik Spiekermann, or Tobias Frere-Jones. In those interviews, those typographers share their opinions on what made Helvetica so wildly successful, why it ... Read more

Peter Müller @ Fronteers 2019: High Performance Web Fonts

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Peter Müller - High Performance Web Fonts from Fronteers on Vimeo. Read more

The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions – Zach Leatherman @ beyond tellerrand 2019

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions - Zach Leatherman from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. Read more

Cracking the Code – David Jonathan Ross

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At this year's beyond tellerrand typeface designer David Jonathan Ross gave an interesting talk about the typography of programming, including its history and the design rationale behind monospace fonts, in his own words hitting the sweet spot that is the nerd trifecta of history, programming and fonts: Cracking the Code - David Jonathan Ross - btconfDUS 2016 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. The talk contains a lot of intriguing insights into why programming fonts are ... Read more

Fonts in use: Typefaces in the wild

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I like the simple elegance of type, the multitude of typefaces - from very ancient to very modern - available today and the vast range of intent, identity, tone and voice typefaces allow you to convey. I think you could say I'm fond of fonts (though as any type nerd will tell you there's a subtle, yet distinct, though today not anymore relevant difference between the two) ... Seeing fonts in use in the wild ... Read more

Practical Typography

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Under Butterick's Practical Typography you'll find a highly interesting, comprehensive online book by Matthew Butterick about typography and how to put it to use. The book can be read for free. However, the author suggests a variety of ways of paying him for his work. So, if you find this resource as useful as I do, please don't hesitate to compensate the author for his efforts so he'll be able to keep up his great ... Read more