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Kerning game

Sounds nerdy. Probably is. Fun, though!

Take five minutes and play the kerning game.

Developed by interaction designer Mark MacKay for Method of Action, via Noisy Decent Graphics.

Some are pretty tough.

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Just My Type

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts is a light-hearted collection of stories aimed at non-designers.

San Serriffe

“Tourists fortunate enough to be permitted to visit the Flong settlements of San Serriffe during the summer solstice will be rewarded by the colourful spectacle of the Gallee sect stamping and shrieking in unison in the Dance of the Pied Slugs.”

Quoted on The Guardian, a few years before my first birthday.

Elsewhere:
San Serriffe, on Wikipedia
Republic of San Serriffe, on Chiefa Coins

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Type foundries worth a look

It's always useful to have a collection of type foundries to call upon. Here are a few worth a look.

Pairing typefaces in book design

Choosing typefaces is one of the two most important choices you make when designing a book.

Arcano Type

In a project a little reminiscent of Miles Newlyn's work for Unilever, graphic designer Giuseppe Salerno of Valencia-based Resistenza spent the past four months producing Arcano Type.

This is the end

A gallery of the end titles from Warner Bros. movies (1924-1967), collated by designer Christian Annyas. Mouse-over each image (there, not here) to reveal the movie.

“Unlike other studios Warner Bros. managed to maintain consistency in their designs. Their logo, which hasn’t changed much since the early 1930s, is present in every design they’ve done.”

On the same site is a similar collection for Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM).

Interesting to see the progression in style when scrolling through the years.

“Almost all designs from 1925 to 1936 are the same: a calligraphic script type. Later, a more formal script was used (1939-1942) while various other designs reused from 1944 to 1947.”

If you like those, here’s a small collection of movie title sequences I enjoyed.

Nice work, Christian. Via Veer.

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Typography field guide

Quick mention for FontShop’s education page that includes useful typography PDFs.

PDFs on offer:
Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Typography (52 pages)
Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips: Seven Rules for Better Typography (9 pages)
Type Anatomy: A Primer of Typographic Terms (2 pages)
The Right Font for the Job: Beyond the Look of the Letter (9 pages)

Download for free.

Via We Made This.

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HypeForType font giveaway

Online type foundry HypeForType has kindly agreed to give you a choice of typeface from its collection.

Hatch Show Print

A fascinating eight-minute look at Hatch Show Print, a 130 year-old working letterpress shop (established 1879) in Nashville, Tennessee.