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The roots of my font-fetish
Every once in a while, blogging delivers an unlooked-for personal insight. I had an example of this occurence earlier this week, when I mentioned that, despite being left-handed, I had won handwriting...
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Expert vision
I was in high school when I realized that being observant was not just a talent or trait – that to be observant, you had to know what to observe. I made this discovery because I had decided that, if I...
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Yahoo!, amateurs, and typography
Like writing, typography is an art everyone imagines that they are competent to judge. From Dorothy Sayers imagining her opinion was better than Jan Tschichold’s to Mark Shuttleworth altering his...
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The artesianal pride of typography
When someone suggests that design doesn’t matter, I like to mention Jan Tschichold, whose ideas help to create modern typography and were considered so subversive that Nazi Germany gave him the choice...
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The lower case avant-garde
Most people have the vague understanding that writing their name entirely in lower case characters is a claim to being avant-garde. However, few people have any idea why this connection is made, or...
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My personal font choices
I discovered typography just as I was starting my second career as a technical writer. Just as I had when learning poetic meter, I became obsessed. My newly trained eye criticized every sign I saw on...
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