Ralf Zeigermann: Typography

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:58:13 GMT

Still going strong. The type magazine U&lc.

Thu, 27 May 2004 06:05:26 GMT

Musical Type. Typographic Illustration. With music. Great.

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:43:27 GMT

Black Letters. Fonts, all Gothic. Lots of them. By Dieter Steffmann. Via Coudal.

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:17:59 GMT

Look, look. Type Designer Erik Spiekermann is now running his own weblog, Spiekerblog. Powered by iBlog. Via Schockwellenreiter.

Sun, 08 Feb 2004 08:23:57 GMT

And more Type. Typography and rare books. Brilliant.

Sun, 08 Feb 2004 08:16:45 GMT

Hot Metal. Nice pages about the history of type.

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:24:18 GMT

Letters. Nice lttle website with examples of type, typography and letters.

Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:26:03 GMT

Wow Indeed. Check out OurType. Via coudal. Fab.

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:43:05 GMT

Automating the Wrong Things. Brilliant entry at teledyn about the typographic chaos we're in.

Just as we powerpointed every argument into a sales pitch , we've reduced almost all our most earnest writing to extended ransom-notes, a hoary hodge podge of artless typography, obsessed with contextually agnostic but technically correct spelling, and proper active-voice business grammar that we were all taught to ape back in grade 5.

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:06:49 GMT

Typographic Experiments. Some really nice stuff is here, and here. Last one's Flash, but great: The ergonomics of a book, for example. Or: A typographic bounce.

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:59:20 GMT

Writing Systems. Ancient Scripts, phonetics and much more at ancientscripts.com.

Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:10:14 GMT

Lirum Larum Maleficum. Who's afraid of the Spanish Inquisition? Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft. Via Kebo11, via lotbuch, via Netbib.