John Nack on Adobe: Web type that doesn't suck, Historic typography, & more

Legal

The views expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

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.

Posted by John Nack at 3:59 PM on May 15, 2007

Joe Clark — 9:53 PM on May 15, 2007

Maybe you could warn us when you're linking to giant PDFs.

[I guess I wouldn't call 1MB "giant." --J.]