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.