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May 15, 2007
Web type that doesn't suck, Historic typography, & more
- Beautiful type specimen books from the 1920's appear in this Flickr photo set. [Via]
- Tiny type--from cuneiform tablets to spies' microdots--is on display in Cabinet Magazine's A Minor History of Miniature Writing [Via]
- Michael Bierut offers Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface, naming various ways to choose the right font. [Via]
- Aiming to make Web typography suck less, Jon Hicks (designer of the Firefox logo, among other things) has created a quick, useful primer on Web type. He's provided related links as well.
Comments
Maybe you could warn us when you're linking to giant PDFs.
[I guess I wouldn't call 1MB "giant." --J.]