I just wrapped up designing a complex, 48-page program for the Virginia Festival of the Book. It’s not the first time I’ve created a document like this, but this time I did something a little different. I catalogued my entire …
Osmose: Font giveaway, review, and interview.
Most type designers aspire to have their work seen everywhere. They want their fonts to be on every desktop and get picked up by some major political campaign or magazine. I don’t blame them, either—that’s how you get paid. Matthieu …
Branding the Cville Design Week
Everyone has little crazy ideas. Sometimes they’re crazy enough to forget, and sometimes they’re crazy enough… they just might work. I’ve launched a tiny design festival in my town of Charlottesville, Virginia. It took place in mid-November and it was …
“What the hell is Kerning?” [How-to Guide & Video]
Have you ever read something and thought: What the hell does that say? It happens to me all the time. Usually it’s because the designer picked a terrible font. Other times the designer ignored spacing (and didn’t kern). Musicians create …
Helvetica is good but overused
Helvetica is one of the world’s most popular typefaces; you’ve probably already seen it multiple times today. It’s a Neo-Grotesque typeface, based largely on Akzidenz-Grotesk, my favorite typeface. Characterized by horizontal and vertical ends on all of its strokes and very …
