Typography
An Inconvenient Typeface: Gore, the font warrior
While James Cameron used boring old Papyrus for his Avatar, former US VP Al Gore was so concerned with typefaces that he personally asked for the font in his latest book to be altered to fit his requirements. Typotheque has the fascinating story.
On the face of it, Avatar isn’t such a nice type
James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar may now be Australia’s highest grossing film ever, but why was Cameron too tightarsed to create a new Avatar font? asks Luke Buckmaster.
How menus trick you into picking the $30 steak not the $10 burger
You thought menus existed to show you what food the restaurant serves and how much it costs? Wrong. Menus are advertisements, carefully designed to make you order the most profitable items.
Major typo for NBC: a font fight
NBC has been slapped with a “no less than 2 million” lawsuit from Font Bureau for allegedly misusing trademarked fonts when flogging their TV shows. The typefaces in question? Bureau Grotesque, Interstate and Antenna.
Font nerds: Can you tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica?
Typography geeks always like to argue that Arial is Helvetica’s ugly step-sister, but how different are they? Ironic Sans have recreated some classic Helvetica logos in Arial, see if you can pick the difference!
Video of the Day: Fonts alive: typography festival opens with a sans
What else to open the 5th Typophile Film Festival but a stop motion homage to typography that’s so good you could eat it. Includes letter soup and licorice all-fonts.
Video of the Day: Font conference: should we let Zapf Dingbats in?
With the debate raging over whether IKEA should have killed off Futura font, we thought it a fitting moment to screen College Humour’s minor classic, the font conference video.
It’s a Smaland after all
IKEA has done what many consider to be the unthinkable. The catalogue changed its typeface.
IKEA farewells Futura
After 50 years of marrying all its marketing to its own iconic version of the Futura typeface, IKEA has suddenly switched to web-standard font Verdana. Although it will allow them greater consistency around the world, does it come at the expense of the company’s unique branding?
The turbulent history of Times New Roman
The humble and iconic Times New Roman typeface has a complex and controversial history, with debate over its origins still raging today.
Arial be gone! No, that’s not a typo.
After years of the internet as a depressing world for typography lovers, finally varied fonts will be available web wide, thanks to a new start up called Typekit.
The future of web fonts
For years, the internet has been constricted to 10 standard fonts. The technology to go further exists, but can all the stakeholders unite for to break web typography free from its Georgia/Verdana prison?
Typography in the recession
Faced with rising costs and falling ad revenue, The New York Times Magazine is saving money and paper by subtly changing their typeface to fit more words on a page.
What font are you?
Are you a serif? Do you like long walks on the beach? All will become clear.
