It comes in two families: A fixed-width typeface and a natural typeface.
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A staff typeface designer at Monotype UK, Omagari studied typography and typeface design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo before earning his MA in typeface design at University of Reading.
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The typeface is called Johnston100, an iteration of the TfL's original Johnston typeface, which has been around since 1916.
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Susan Kare's Chicago, a quintessential typeface for the Apple brand, is the system typeface for early Macs and early iPods.
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I divide the world of typographic between display typeface and text typeface, and the display typefaces are like the charismatic megafauna of the world.
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" The speculative typeface "Clara" is Spencer's greatest challenge yet to the world: a speculative typeface that he's also "imbued with a level of encryption.
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Participants may either bring typeface designs in progress to refine and get ready for the marketplace, or work on developing a new idea for a typeface.
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In 2012, two Chattanooga-based typeface designers set up an emotive Kickstarter campaign to allow them to produce a typeface that could encapsulate their city's personality.
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This choice lends the new typeface a sharper, more institutional look than Libre Franklin, which suits its purpose as a typeface for government websites quite well.
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Handsome letters, with pronounced slablike serifs, recall the typeface Clarendon.
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How beautiful would that be set in a simple typeface?
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The logo also has a new typeface and color scheme.
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You can even choose the typeface that appears on the keys.
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Going forward, it's the only typeface the magazine's designers will use.
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The latest example is this typeface by the designers at Uno.
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Let it be said that typeface designers are a dramatic bunch.
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In fact, Helvetica only became the official NYCTA typeface in 1989.
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It's named for his website, which showcases his typeface design business.
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The words on it matched the typeface of the fountain's inscription.
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Well, there's no typeface that has a black square like that.
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Other times, however, typeface can be central to a film's setting.
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After ample research, the studio created a typeface based on Ray's handwriting.
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Later, the city of Washington DC adopted it as its municipal typeface.
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A special large, bold typeface is used when their names are printed.
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D: Disney's cursive typeface is one of the most recognizable on Earth.
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"MAN ON MOON", it declared jubilantly, in an enormous, suitably momentous typeface.
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Most of the time, the right typeface appeared as a top choice.
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He is a typeface designer and font developer, not a software engineer.
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Now, there's a new typeface specifically designed to this amplify these voices.
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And now she and everybody else's mother has a favorite typeface, right?
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Experts recommend how to choose the most evocative words and complementary typeface.
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In fact, you've seen a digital typeface born this way (almost) before.
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For example, before Netflix transitioned to its custom typeface in 2018, it had been paying type design agency Hoefler & Co. millions of dollars a year to use Gotham — the same typeface used by Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
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It features a typeface similar to the one used by the Hillary campaign.
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Transport for London unveiled Johnston 100, an update of its iconic Johnston typeface.
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They decided to ditch the original typeface and design one of their own.
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They need to have some key elements like colors, typeface and the logo.
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In this election, there are many more important things at stake than typeface.
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"The typeface is an expression of the tone of voice," Mr. Abbot said.
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There's also a new typeface, which covers the "Uber" wordmark, among other things.
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The Los Angeles Clippers channeled a newspaper-esque typeface for their City jerseys.
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They may even use a distinctive typeface to make the trademark stand out.
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Next, click Font and choose the typeface and size you want to use.
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"The Public Sans typeface was initially created to remove the rounded terminals from the Libre Franklin typeface, to make it closer in tone to the classic Franklins from which it drew inspiration," a GSA spokesperson told Motherboard in an email.
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The original Chronicle is a descendent of Didot, the reigning typeface for fashion magazines.
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Bil'ak says his favorite letter is usually from a typeface he is currently developing.
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Yakout, a popular typeface designed by the German-British company Linotype and Machinery Ltd.
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Both the London Underground Map and the Courier Sans typeface were born from experiments.
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Earlier this year, Monotype lovingly updated its classic Helvetica typeface for the 21st century.
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As for the watch face, it uses Hermès's typeface and features the company's logo.
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The New York City Tree Alphabet is available to download as a free typeface.
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The rest of it, including the typeface, has a flatter and more modern look.
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Paul D. Hunt: Well, I am a typeface designer and font developer by trade.
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As you might imagine, the typeface hasn't aged well in the post-war period.
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Thus, the BBC's User Experience & Design and Marketing & Audiences teams have developed this new typeface.
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By contrast, Hillary Clinton has used a distinctive typeface called Unity consistently across her platform.
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One has the words KALE GOD scribbled at the bottom in With My Woes typeface.
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In 1961, typeface maker Haas rebranded it as Helvetica and introduced to the wider world.
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The warning is one of the system's most distinctive features, along with its signature typeface.
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OVER the past century, one typeface has come to dominate the visual vernacular of London.
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The typeface, VSCO Gothic, was created in partnership with Swedish design house Letters From Sweden.
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The buoyant font used for the show's title is a neo-retro typeface called Fontdinerdotcom.
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Often their prop of choice is a newspaper declaring sharp moves in bold typeface. S.&.
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Monotype recently introduced a new typeface called Ambiguity, created by its Type Director, Charles Nix.
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The recognizable typeface is the same seen on all her other beauty and fragrance offerings.
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The proof, rendered in a lovely sans-serif typeface, is right there on the dial.
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Streaming giant Netflix has created its own typeface, just like other tech companies have done.
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Braille Neue is not the first typeface attempting to improve how society engages with braille.
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But a diploma written by hand with the blank filled in with a calligraphic printed typeface?
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Kernit is a loveably bizarre, psychedelic typeface available for free in two styles: bold and outline.
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The most popular typeface in the history of the world, how do you approach redesigning it?
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The typeface is called Nemek Gothic, and I bought it directly from the designer, Tom Grunwald.
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"Helvetica is like water," says a recent video about the most popular typeface in the world.
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That process can easily introduce numerical errors, especially with a typeface as small as the handbook's.
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Observed closely, the typeface reveals itself to be not black, but instead a more Freudian grisailles.
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Unusual and traditional styles are offered with any typeface, including the ones that look like calligraphy.
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The PlayStation 5 logo — abbreviated as "PS5" — retains a very similar typeface to previous PlayStation consoles:
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Opened in August 2015, the hotel has a welcoming entrance with its distinctive Art Deco typeface.
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"This typeface keeps your resume looking polished and professional, while still adding some personality," she says.
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Instead, it uses the Zawgyi typeface, which Facebook claims makes it much harder to detect offending posts.
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The result was a typeface that channels Eames-ian principles like elegance, sturdiness, and economy of space.
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Few graphic designers reach for a fixed-width typeface unless they're after a very particular stylistic effect.
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The work's typeface resembled newspaper headlines, and the work sought to question the way truth is generated.
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Even if the rabbi had matched the typeface perfectly, the document would still have had other tells.
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So we wanted to build some of that flavor back into the typeface, that kind of variability.
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According to It's Nice That, Netflix created the typeface for one logical reason: Licensing fonts isn't cheap.
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Weinkle's latest exploration of typeface is Growths, which finds intricate copperplate calligraphy exploding into beautiful, furry fungi.
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For example, Dougherty created several alternatives before landing on the final floating Benguiat typeface in Stranger Things.
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Depressing a key plunged a lever with the typeface downward onto the paper clutched in the underbelly.
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Created in 1957, the typeface sprung from the mind of Swiss designers Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffman.
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You can probably find a typeface for your logo or missive that conveys a little more creativity.
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There's something sneakily playful about Rasheed's placement of these statements in white typeface on a black background.
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The novelty is that the words are presented in logical sequences and in diminishing or augmenting typeface.
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And the Instagram typeface at the top of the app was slightly different than it is today.
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That potential danger was included only in the required F.D.A. information insert printed in a tiny typeface.
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It's a large ceramic egg with the word "EGG" painted on its front in his trademark typeface.
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After you download a new typeface from an online font shop, double-click the file you received.
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It also offers font suggestions to pair your selected typeface with another that Adobe thinks is aesthetically complementary.
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At launch, Twitter's design spelled out the company's name in a neon-green typeface that looked like flubber.
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The new typeface looks very similar to the old one, but now it comes in five different weights.
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Swedish punk band Pissjar have released their own typeface, designed by the band in their very own urine.
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The typeface may seem surprising for a brand known for suits that can cost as much as $6,900.
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You don't realize how geometrically complex a typeface can be until you've seen one of these design files.
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Every word, every image, every shirt, every song, every typeface for the credits, all signed off by him.
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When I start adding a lot of texture, I need the typeface to not have a loud voice.
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He also used typeface-covered walls both as decoration and to convey information about the restaurant and its offerings.
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The font, used as the headline typeface for each of the magazine's 16 stories, evolves from page to page.
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The new typeface is designed specifically to be seen clearly on mobile devices, and will save the broadcaster money.
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I want to be clear, Helvetica is a great typeface, it's just that it exists in a single master.
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Other Mozilla products use the same color palette, yet with a different system of shapes and a new typeface.
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Major companies, which had used Helvetica for years in branding and other materials, had begun to eschew the typeface.
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Pradil created the Mobilo typeface in eight weights, and they added a simple, clean animation for the regular weight.
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Upon release, CEEFAX broadcasted a mere 24 pages of content, decked out in blocky typeface and bold primary colors.
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Another employee submitted a silk scarf that included a link to her own website printed in a custom typeface.
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The design is low-key, almost academic, without gimmicky typeface or colors pushed so that everything looks Disney fake.
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You'll find book jackets, manuals, advertising design, posters, typeface "blueprints," images of boxes and tins, and in-store displays.
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In 1501, for an edition of Virgil (the "Aldine Virgil"), he created what's regarded as the first italic typeface.
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This one, 'AE,' is from a digitial typeface called Uni Grotesk that Typotheque will publish in full later this year.
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For the new design, Mac Lewis, Playboy's creative diretor, commissioned a new typeface by Okay Type, a foundry in Chicago.
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As a typeface designer for Adobe, Paul Hunt spends most of his time creating the building blocks of written language.
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The pages of Square Octagon Circle represent multiple criss-crossing photographs, superimposed with the script in a clean, white typeface.
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The red-and-white speaker is pretty distinctive, with Beastie Boys written out on the grille in a contemporary typeface.
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The new name appears prominently in the plaza, the Univers typeface backlit in neon at night, above the main entrance.
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At the end of the process, you'll typically receive a logo, typeface, color and design elements, and visual brand attributes.
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Working with the yogurt brand, Hasebe further tweaked this typeface to arrive at the friendly, rounded logo we see today.
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Apple has its custom-made San Francisco, which recently became the default typeface across the entire Apple family of devices.
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Transport for London (TfL) will begin rolling out a new typeface for the London Underground and the city's bus system.
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It is a serif typeface, and what's known as a "Scotch" face, which describes the way the serifs are designed.
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They will be featured at the Queens Museum next year in an exhibition (with, one hopes, a more welcoming typeface).
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A clever new tool for the font-infatuated promises to put guesswork to rest when it comes to typeface inspiration.
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It's a serif typeface that's appeared on everything from Shakespearean epics like Titus to gory flicks like The Human Centipede.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In film, there is a shorthand for the future, the typeface Eurostile Bold Extended.
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For this project, I did aggressive / transparency / scraping / noise of that one typeface, then scanned and cataloged each of them.
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The oversized sign is designed to look like a road sign, with its sans serif font, blue typeface, and plain border.
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In The Favourite, the pomp and perversity of Queen Anne's fictionalized court registers through a historic typeface manipulated in surprising ways.
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Google updated its logo in September 2015 to a version with a sans-serif typeface that looks like this:Google's current logo.
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A new typeface called Ugly Gerry does just that: Its letters are formed from the shapes of grotesquely gerrymandered U.S. districts.
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But if you're a typeface nerd who also appreciates mathematical precision, the newly minted "Optician Sans" is the font for you.
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Today Dropbox introduced a new brand design that includes a revamped logo, a plethora of color schemes and a new typeface.
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" The imagery, the colors, the psychedelic typeface and the gender-fluid Williams made me wonder, "Is GQ still a men's magazine?
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Obama famously used Gotham, a typeface originally developed for GQ in 2000 and became publicly available just before his campaign launch.
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Behold: Once you see Trump's hair in the New York Times' typeface you can't ever unsee it (I'm so sorry) pic.twitter.
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Luckily, Monotype already has plans for a 2050 reboot of the typeface to continue to meet changing needs: Helvetica Apocalypse Now!
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Their conversation while they waited was devoted to the difficulties that had arisen because a typeface was neither available nor obtainable.
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There, as elsewhere in the building, signs use a typeface specially designed for the building in 1957 by Elaine Lustig Cohen.
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Then he clicked on the algorithm behind the visuals: a torrent of incomprehensible digits in the simple typeface of Linux code.
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Gerrymandering is so broken that someone has made a font typeface out of some of the most absurdly shaped congressional districts.
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A list of sub-hashtags appears when you open a category, like #MoGraph (motion graphics) or #Typeface when you open art.
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Dollano later created another version of the typeface in an entirely synchronized palette revolving around shades of turquoise, yellow, and green.
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A second membership tier includes a university, government bodies in Bangladesh and India, a typeface company and an emoji search engine.
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"He told me it was his goal to learn every typeface, and I was like, 'That's so sexy,'" Ms. Combs said.
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Artist Katie Holten created the New York City Tree Alphabet, and soon will lead the planting of messages with the living typeface.
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A new typeface called Memoire is designed to reflect the ever-shifting shapes memories take as we replay them in our minds.
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Effective immediately, the agency announced, it would rescind its approval of Clearview, a typeface designed to make highway signs easier to read.
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Netflix Sans is not a binge-worthy show, it's an original typeface that will replace the Gotham font you're used to seeing.
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This means that even if Forever 21 did steal the Blonde typeface, unfortunately, Frank Ocean may not have legal standing in court.
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Dunham, 32, revealed her new ink on Instagram: the word "sick" written in a lasso typeface across the back of her neck.
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Mendelsund: Atlantic Condensed is the typeface that we commissioned based on the type forms that the founders chose for the first issue.
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The founders chose a typeface that's very condensed—which is good, because it means you can fit more type onto the page.
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This July, Transport for London (TfL) will roll out a redesign to Johnston, the typeface that's decorated the London Underground since 1916.
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Download the entire bold-weight Mobilo typeface in exchange for a social media post, or purchase the regular weight and static faces.
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The most interesting part of Dollano's typeface is her numerical set, which functions like a time machine of typographical history in reverse.
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His 272-page debut is a meticulously catalogued and vividly illustrated survey of typeface design during the golden age of arcade games.
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But the book — with a spine, a unique scent, crisp pages and a typeface that may date to Shakespeare's day — is back.
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Her transformation doesn't take her from A to Z. It takes her from A to italicized A in a slightly larger typeface.
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It begins with a colorful cover design, and readers can swipe through the story written in type reminiscent of the original typeface.
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Stick to the basics: New Times Roman, Verdana or Garamond, or Calibri, Helvetica or Arial if you prefer a sans serif typeface.
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Chronicle Hairline, the latest typeface from type foundry Hoefler & Co., is a genteel yet relaxed family of letters created for the fashion world.
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That brings the site in line with the iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Apple TV and Mac devices, which all use the proprietary typeface.
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Dupre believes ITC Mendoza roman to be the most beautiful French typeface of the 20th century, his favorite letterform being the lowercase 'a'.
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The Highway Administration, which, among other things, oversees federal funding for highway construction and maintenance, had given the typeface provisional endorsement in 2004.
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The idea, the designers say, was to create a framework for the typeface that would enable future Resonate-rs to easily repurpose it.
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The detachable plastic palm rest, emblazoned with the Roccat logo (some sort of Blade Runner-inspired typeface next to a cat) is flimsy.
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The eye-catching typeface, simply called "Gilbert," features gently rounded letters with strokes in eight different colors paying tribute to Baker's rainbow flag.
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The white-on-white distillation of typeface into graphic notation is at its most extreme in "Less Than Words Can Say" from 2014.
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At 832 pages, it has the heft of an encyclopedia, and it's designed like a reference book, down to the formal serif typeface.
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And if you're a typeface nerd, you'll likely recognize the new font as Geneva, a font developed at Apple in the early 1980s.
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Dubai is now the first city to have a specially designed Microsoft font — although it is technically a typeface, available in four weights.
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Actually, no one has said that, but that won't stop Netflix from unveiling Netflix Sans, its own custom typeface (via It's Nice That).
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"We're really hoping to use this platform more as a living tutorial about how a typeface might behave," says foundry founder Jonathan Hoefler.
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Now, Monotype has given Helvetica a face-lift, in the hopes that it can restore some of the magic to the iconic typeface.
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For example, one year we designed a Mekanism hoodie that had the company name silkscreened in the same typeface as the Metallica logo.
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As he moved around the office, he stopped to peer over the shoulder of an employee who was experimenting with a logo typeface.
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Sweatshirts and T-shirts released by Kanye West this year in conjunction with his album "The Life of Pablo" feature a similar typeface.
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At one point, he even has the perky spokeswoman of a maltster in Bamberg, Germany, provide her spiel in the Comic Sans typeface.
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You lose the design of the product, which is often beautiful, down to the weight of the paper and the choice of typeface.
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The Skims logo looks just like the previous one, using the bubble-shaped typeface that Kardashian West's husband, Kanye West, sketched out himself.
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A. One way to change the default typeface that Microsoft Word uses for each new document is to adjust the font settings box.
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I hunted down vintage typography references that could be interesting to update with a modern twist for a custom typeface for the bank.
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Design Studio, says it's "an elegant typeface" designed to be read at small sizes, which makes it a good option for a resume.
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Once you click, the Google logo changes to "GOO21E" which ... well, it's way more legible in their typeface, but you get the idea.
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Stuffy wall texts have been replaced by short panels in a zippy sans-serif typeface, part of a larger rebranding by Sagmeister & Walsh.
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And you get the right kind of typeface and it all starts coming back to life again because really, it's not that far away.
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Designed by type foundry Monotype, it's the first update to the typeface since the late 1970s, when it was adjusted for new typesetting technology.
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Designed by type foundry Monotype, it's the first update to the typeface since the late 1970s, when it was adjusted for new typesetting technology.
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Fast Company spoke with the design firm ANTI Hamar, the creator of the font, about the neat typeface made available for free last month.
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Following the success of their candles, they've released a new set of bud vases ("Kirbies"), modeled on a 1970s Japanese typeface called Peach Boy.
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The typeface, Sharp Grotesk, was designed by foundry Sharp Type, inspired by hand-drawn poster lettering and the work of Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger.
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The typeface has been steadily appearing in more and more places and was already prominent in Android 9 Pie, but now it's basically everywhere.
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In addition to the simplified icon, the white drop-shadowed typeface that used to splay out across it has been lowercased and dropped below.
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StackOverflow also went for a simple prank, taking the entire website back to the early days of the internet, complete with Comic Sans typeface.
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Consider the typeface Windsor, which was crafted in 21970 and, according to the Font Review Journal, had its heyday between the 23s and '22018s.
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We also have a new bespoke typeface that you'll see first as the dropcap treatment on our features; fittingly, it is also called Pathways.
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Designed by type foundry Monotype, it's the first update to the typeface since the late 1970s, when it was adjusted for new typesetting technology.
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Over their glamorous profiles are the balloon typeface of comic book covers, blurring out the faces of the women with superheroes and speech bubbles.
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In an attempt to involve more African language communities with the internet, two typeface designers discover the importance of community outreach in their work.
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They designed a custom typeface called Kicker for the event and thought it would be useful for other designers, even though it wasn't complete.
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He's been involved in every phase of this multiyear project, down to choosing every shirt, every song and even the typeface for the credits.
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In many of the poems, annotations appear along the right margin, in brackets and a paler typeface, commenting on and complicating the "real" poem.
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We make do typeface recommendation, identification, pairing; we also help customers by modifying existing typefaces slightly in order to make them perform more uniquely.
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The merchandise mirrored Pablo's punk-inspired visual aesthetic, much of it purposefully simplistic and employing short messages written in a typeface resembling gang tattoos.
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The text — written in tiny typeface but legible ancient Greek — helped them complete the puzzle of what the machine did and how it was operated.
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Designers Ryan Bugden and Michelle Wainer created the custom typeface for La Petite Mort, a biannual magazine produced by New York creative agency Sub Rosa.
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Many of America's highway signs were subsequently updated; if you've driven in Pennsylvania, Texas, or some 20 other states, you've probably seen the typeface yourself.
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But in its unorthodox approach to lettering, it actually echoes a poster that preceded it: the dripping typeface from the 1894 poster, La Revue Blanche.
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Calling itself the "the world's comfiest font," Soffa Sans creates a typeface out of the Vallentuna couch in both isometric and bird's-eye view versions.
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Skype has been using part of this logo for a while, but it appears the broader word mark is now moving to Microsoft's corporate typeface.
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We know that the typeface was officially released to the public and became the default font for Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad in 2007.
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At modern ports of entry, scanners also look for other inconsistencies and can quickly flag them, including incorrect typeface or mismatched traveler information, Henderson said.
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Nor is legibility the primary concern for the exhibition notes, which come on a folded sheet of A3 in a typeface of the artist's making.
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Once you spot a sexy typeface and take a photo of it with the app's built-in camera, WhatTheFont will isolate all the included text.
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Sure, it's more expensive than an ordinary deck of cards, but the handy trinkets of typeface and design wisdom make them worth the small splurge.
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The typeface in the book — Caslon — is still widely available, but reproducing the long "s" (ſ ), once common in old books, was its own challenge.
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James Edmondson, founder of Ohno Type and a partner at Future Fonts, often posts typeface designs he's working on to social media to gauge interest.
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Past finds include Katie Holten's book with a typeface inspired by trees and a poster borrowing lyrics from Les Misérables by the counterculture cooperative Justseeds.
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Across the county's many parks, large signs welcome visitors with the county executive's name in giant letters, with the park's name in a smaller typeface.
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If the Trump-panicked corner of the internet made one of those year-end word clouds, I imagine this would be in the big typeface.
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Gotham, a popular typeface used by President Barack Obama's campaign and many others, costs nearly $1,000 to license a complete set of 66 different styles.
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They launched the League of Moveable Type website in early 2009 with its first offering, Junction, a sans-serif typeface that Hadilaksono designed in college.
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Other subjects in the new batch include the M.I.T. Media Lab professor Neri Oxman, the Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and the typeface designer Jonathan Hoefler.
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" Working on the series, he recalled, he and Morris would have "conversations that lasted for ages about the typeface on a poster in the background.
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However, some said that since it's the default typeface for Windows users, it risks communicating to a recruiter that you didn't make too much effort.
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The final typeface presents a series of letters that are blocky, yet immediately readable to the eye and faithful to the arrangement of braille dots.
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Past finds include Katie Holten's book with a typeface inspired by trees and a poster borrowing lyrics from Les Misérables by the counterculture cooperative Justseeds.
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In a place where even street signs can be politically charged, there's little in the way of national guidelines for language placement, spacing, or typeface usage.
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Critton riffed on Futura's upright (not-italicized), regular weight over the course of three months, drawing inspiration from designer Larissa Kasper's earlier experiments with the typeface.
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The rainbow version of the typeface unapologetically invokes LGBTQ pride, but "Gilbert" is also available for download in black, creating a sleeker and more understated look.
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Vivid packaging, sleek design, and a bold (yet clean) typeface make the new brand's products appeal to both lovers of K-beauty and fans of minimalism.
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Related: Animated Typeface Project Invites Users To Create Moving Letters Urban Typography Transforms Texts into 3D Skylin Meet the Artist Behind Broad City's Awesome Animated Intros
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Typically, you'd have a file for Arial, Arial Bold, and Arial Bold Italic, so that a comprehensive typeface might be 20 to 30 files in total.
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It's easy to identify the posts that have been changed — the font is different and usually shows up with a small illustration or in blue typeface.
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Also, Maya Angelou will be honored with a work of public art in San Francisco, maps of gerrymandered districts were turned into a typeface, and more.
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The brand of each company will be displayed in small, uniform typeface on all packs, which will be manufactured in the same shade of dark green.
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He asked his father if he would like to have it on his gravestone; his father said yes, and chose the Gothic typeface to be used.
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A well-designed typeface can act like a friendly local accent, something that has a strong sense of place and reflects a city's perception of itself.
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One sign bluntly reads, "FASCISM IS HATE FEAR FUCKERY / WE REFUSE THIS WEAK ASS SHIT," rendered in the collective's signature large, all-caps, black Arial typeface.
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Next Monday at Cooper Union, Jamra and Patel will present the story of Kigelia, a 10-script, multi-style typeface and the process of developing it.
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If you do use digital tools, like apps, they must use the same visual system as the static signs, through graphic design, typeface and color coding.
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Adobe and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation teamed up to turn fragments of five unfinished typeface designs from the 1920s and '30s into full-fledged digital typefaces.
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Visually, the crow's silhouette sits between the title above and the author's name below, with the profile of their hand-drawn letters echoing stencils and typeface.
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Its Steven King-style paperback typeface smacks of a period piece, as does the theme music's deliberate, arpeggiated riffs, legatto "wahhhh" chord voicing, and heartbeat bass drum.
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The organizations decided to memorialize Baker in a typeface because he was known for using his artistic talents to help friends create banners for protests and marches.
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It's the official typeface of New York City's subway system, and if you're reading this on The Verge, you're mostly reading stories constructed of Helvetica right now.
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It wasn't until my third pass at the essay "Secrets" that I realized it contained an actual text, and not just an abstract block of typeface illustration.
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You can view, in gorgeous typeface and swoon-worthy photos, each thing she's built over her career and the steps she's taken to continue to grow it.
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Beyond the brutalist typeface that sits on the front of every issue of the Happy Hypocrite, #accumulator_plus looks totally fresh throughout, influenced aesthetically by old rave posters.
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Users on an typography message board revealed that Canada 150, the typeface unveiled to celebrate Canada's sequicentennial, already existed as a free font under a different name.
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The duo hired a designer to create a custom typeface for the app, spent "a ton of time" finicking with the shutter button and in-app animations.
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From Times New Roman to Tahoma to Proxima Nova (that's the typeface you're reading right now), a font can say a lot more than the message written.
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Gaping jaws stuffed with food, splotches all over the pages, frequent use of a typeface that looks like a scream from a locked cell — that's the design.
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Tech Tip Q. How do I change the basic typeface in my new documents in Microsoft Word for Mac 2016 so that the program always uses it?
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One shape is roughly the Hebrew letter beth in reverse, another looks like an ornamental C, a third like a lowercase I in some early digital typeface.
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In 1967, Mr. Silverstein — then the corporate art director — changed the body typeface of the paper from Ideal to Imperial and increased the size of the text.
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I wanted a complete typeface that I could write a book in and send to a typecaster, for no other reason than it would cause me joy.
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The Bauhaus 93 typeface is thick, bold, and available in the dropdown menu on Microsoft Word; it was used on the title screens for Super Mario Bros.
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A section discussing a website's link to its 2257 statement notes that "the required statement shall be displayed in typeface that is no less than 22573-point type or no smaller than the second-largest typeface on the material and in a color that clearly contrasts with the background color of the material"–as font size and text color clearly have an impact on the sexual exploitation of minors.
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The update branches Dropbox out as if it's the cool kids of file sharing, with a new, squashed-up typeface called Sharp Grotesk to go along with it.
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Baker died on March 31, but his legacy and vision of the LGBTQ community lives on through a new, creative medium — a rainbow typeface created in his name.
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The service is also getting a new typeface, color scheme, and a bunch of major changes to the look, feel, and functionality of its desktop and mobile app.
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Apparently, the typeface was designed by Virgil Abloh, who collaborated with Williams on a line for Nike and is known for incorporating quotation marks in his clothing designs.
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Also, her surname looks like the Google logo — especially as it's written on her campaign signs, which use a font that's identical to Google's bespoke sans-serif typeface.
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However, right next to an image of Mr. Trump in a smaller typeface (though still all in capitals) was a hedge, courtesy of a series of updating headlines.
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Many of my fellow conservatives have spent a great amount of time, effort, and typeface attempting to convince Trump's followers that their support for The Donald is irrational.
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In their research and community outreach endeavors, they found a series of historical, cultural, and technical issues that they had to examine before sharing the new typeface design.
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In celebration of the album's 25th birthday, graphic designer Paul Nicholson shared the original design blueprints for the logo and typeface on his Instagram, and we're blown away.
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TB Resuscitation's cover had a yellow-and-white palette, with "Hardfloor" written in the middle in white typeface and the album's title in black on top of it.
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For instance, type designer Antonio Cavedoni, in discussing Eurostile creator Aldo Novarese, notes that the typeface now synonymous with science fiction was actually a reflection of midcentury aesthetics.
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TypeThursday, which began in 2015 at a Brooklyn bar and has expanded to eight cities around the world, is a place to put a face to a typeface.
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When the question flowed less smoothly — because it was written in a hard-to-read typeface — people were much more likely to notice the mistake in the question.
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A new typeface updates the nearly 200 century-old system by superimposing raised dots onto carefully configured letterforms, allowing it to be understood by both sight and touch.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads JERUSALEM — On June 11, Israeli typeface designer and professor Liron Lavi Turkenich found herself teaching a new student: her country's president, Reuven Rivlin.
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In keeping with the movie's setting, Marmatakis used Village, a typeface created by Frederic Goudy in the early 20th century that was modeled on Venetian styles from the 1400s.
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Uber gets a new logo Why it matters: The rebranding, which includes new colors, typeface and app layout, is to better match the company's expanding transportation options, it says.
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Uber unveiled the process behind the black-and-white rebranding in an AdWeek exclusive, describing the nine-month design period that culminated in a custom typeface, called Uber Move.
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He leafed through the file with Frank's name on the cover and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stamped on it, turning the translucently thin pages covered with typeface.
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Bringing biological life to lettering is a recurring theme in his work, whether he's making a typeface that resembles organic matter, or one styled as writhing, worm-like creatures.
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Monotype Imaging — Shares of Monotype Imaging surged 7.7% after Bloomberg News reported the typeface developer is exploring strategic options after receiving interest from private-equity firms for a buyout.
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Related: Motion Designers From Around The World Unite To Create An Animated Typeface 'Stranger Things'-ify Anything with This Typography Generator Textual Healing: An Illuminated Look at Tomorrow's Typography
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Public Sans marks the team's first foray into developing a typeface of their own, and at first glance, they appear to have done a pretty good job of it.
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"[During] the U.S. Web Design System 2.0 development process, it became clear that this typeface could be a useful target for our font normalization feature," the GSA spokesperson explained.
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And having a typeface developed by a woman who helped make our chaotic human networks more easily navigated seemed like the perfect DNA for what Motherboard would ideally be.
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As blogger and designer Dave Addey explains in his new book Typeset in the Future, out now from Abrams, he first noticed the ubiquity of the typeface in 2013.
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The marketing materials, meanwhile, include a typeface that resembles neon lettering, a video with a brassy jazz tune and drawings that recall Work Projects Administration posters from the 1930s.
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For this document specifically, experts examined the paper that was used, the ink, the typeface and where Gandhi was documented to be at the time the letter was written.
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In a cursive typeface, the letter "D" sits underneath a coronet, which features two crosses pattée (a type of Christian cross), four fleurs-de-lys and two strawberry leaves.
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Bauhaus design's Modernist pedigree belies its wide accessibility; save for their appeals to children and the use of the typeface itself, the aforementioned cultural properties have little in common.
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Photo courtesy of Xiu Xiu Every aspect of Twin Peaks, from its fashion sensibilities to its typeface will be forever etched into American culture until the end of time.
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If you've already been using the Google Calendar app on your phone, you'll notice the app's brighter colors and more appealing typeface are carrying over to the updated web version.
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Phinney's latest font case, the copyright suit brought against Justin Timberlake and others, doesn't hinge on such fine points, even though it involves a typeface—Engravers—originally designed in 1899.
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In the typeface, the word "Men" in "Men of the Year" is crossed out, with the word "Woman" scripted in handwritten font in its place — and put in quotation marks.
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Besides the money, though, there's another reason many tech companies, including Apple and Samsung, choose to create their own typeface: It distinguishes the brand and adds an element of exclusivity.
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Adobe and Google have partnered to launch the second leg of an open-source project which aims at providing a unified typeface for the 1.5 billion people in East Asia.
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Rather than let Helvetica die a slow death, all 40,000 characters in the world's most iconic typeface have been revamped into a new font called—wait for it—Helvetica Now.
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However, each card features interesting typography history, essential fonts, or tips for improving your composition so you can learn about typeface as you crush a game of solitaire or poker.
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But with this all you have is the slogan in the BBC typeface—it's actually a slight modification on the Gill Sans font—and the crown on the color red.
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The most artsy of photography apps, VSCO, has undergone an extensive redesign that includes a brand new typeface as well as a basic symbolic language created by the company's designers.
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Watch the video above to see how this one typeface took over Hollywood — and why it was such a huge departure from the way movie posters used to be made.
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It includes rare drawings that show Centaur's progression from cast type into digital typeface, and is itself set in Kelly's new rendering of Centaur, based on the original foundry casts.
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A typeface designer by training, Hunt designs emojis that function as a traditional font, and this font in turn can be used in Unicode's character reference charts and other documents.
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That includes Chicago, the quintessential Apple typeface that debuted with the first Mac, retired in 1997 with Mac OS 8, and resurfaced in the 2000s with the early generation iPods.
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That's why Facebook, the company, designed a custom typeface for a new logo to differentiate itself from Facebook, the social network, as the latter increasingly faces scrutiny over antitrust concerns.
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Making a typeface that negotiates English and Japanese characters with the braille grid was no easy feat, and Takahashi worked with a friend who uses braille to develop many prototypes.
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The curators posted invitations with graphics featuring a Chinese restaurant takeout container emblazoned with the so-called "chop suey" typeface and an image of a Judd-like box cradling chopsticks.
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That refresh — which brings an updated layout, app launcher, a notification tab, new typeface, and dark mode by default — is starting to arrive on Android phones across the world this week.
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The color of a piece of fruit, the typeface on a book of matches—the best you can do to capture these moments is take a photo and reference it later.
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When PepsiCo overhauled the typeface and design of its Tropicana orange juice cartons in 2009, sales dropped, and the old design was back in supermarket refrigerators within a couple of months.
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As for deciding what counted as a Trajan poster, Peters followed a few guidelines: Trajan had to have been used for the original poster and had to be the main typeface.
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The film, one of the most expensive movies ever made, had an inexplicably pedestrian film title design that typeface nerds have long been mocking: It uses Papyrus — a default computer font.
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Other changes reinforce the timepiece's graphic appeal: The lettering is now exclusively in Chanel's custom typeface, the numerals are cast in ceramic and the hands were modified with contrasting monochromatic accents.
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His new typeface, Braille Neue, updates the nearly 200 century-old system by superimposing its raised dots onto carefully configured letterforms, allowing it to be understood by both sight and touch.
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"Through the contribution of increasing the variation of typeface that combine braille with existing characters, I believe we can create an inclusive society where using braille becomes commonplace," Takahashi told Hyperallergic.
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The white, bold San Francisco typeface set against the black background made for such high contrast that I had no problems seeing every slide — even the word-cloud ones listing ancillary features.
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Her earlier project One Rock Alphabet saw the designer create an entire typeface from photographed movements of rocks, an idea she derived from a passage in physicist Alan Lightman's book Einstein's Dreams.
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There is her poetry, set wandering down a wall in a hideous but cutesy bubbled typeface that adorns every letter with a stick flower, the poem conjuring a field in ripe blossom.
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A vividly illustrated survey of typeface design, Tosh Omagari's Arcade Game Typography is a satisfying compendium for anyone occasionally gripped with nostalgia at the sight of a lone Ms. Pac-Man machine.
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Bauhaus 93 is a version of the Blippo typeface, which itself was designed by Joe Taylor as a darker version of Burko Bold — and Burko is based on another unfinished Bauhaus design.
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Called in to examine the smicha, Phinney quickly noted that the entire document was in fancy, handwritten calligraphy, except the recipient's name, which was set in a typeface that had a calligraphed feel.
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And in a nod to the New Deal era, Elizabeth Warren chose a condensed deco-esque typeface and American Standard mint-green accents that pay homage to the design language of the 1930s.
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The company redrew almost 40,000 of Helvetica's characters as part of the Helvetica Now revamp in an attempt to make the typeface feel nicer to read and to work better at smaller sizes.
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"After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends," the statement read, printed in the Kindle-friendly Bookerly typeface. pic.twitter.
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The font choice has also improved a bit from what we last saw in August (the wordmark now uses an original typeface created for the company), but it's still pretty plain and simple.
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This year SVA is pleased to introduce a new course, The Business of Type, a one-week hands-on seminar on developing, marketing, and licensing a typeface for use in the professional environment.
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Another notable font of this nature is Farrington B, a numeric typeface conceived by early OCR developer David H. Shepard that's still in use to this day on credit and debit cards everywhere.
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During a song that began "A typeface called Optima" — the font (I guessed, correctly as it turned out) used on the Vietnam War Memorial — I heard someone in an upper row crying quietly.
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"I think that this project should serve as inspiration," Turkenich said, noting that her ultimate goal is to have the typeface available for public use; right now it's only available on a commission basis.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Cher of using a typeface created by Brooklyn, New York, graphic designer for her 2013 album "Closer to the Truth" without permission.
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Working with typeface provides just the perfect mix of structure—you're confined to 26 set characters—and freedom—you can do pretty much whatever you want with those characters—that so often fosters creativity.
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"Built-in expertise and know-how" Samsung hopes that SamsungOne will manage to be "Human + Balanced + Ownable + Distinctive + Universal + Scalable + Expert + Durable," which is a lot of things for a single typeface to accomplish.
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They were also printed in a new cursive or "italic" typeface to increase ease of reading while making it possible for more text to be fitted onto fewer pages, while still allowing generous margins.
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So at Arsenal, out went the local Borough of Islington's coat of arms and a highly detailed script and cannon, and in came a sleeker typeface and cannon — now facing in the other direction.
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If you want Font Book to remove a font you no longer use, click All Fonts on the left side of the window and select the name of the typeface in the Fonts list.
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Parminder Kumar Rajput, at 71 the youngest of the old gang, is the only man left in the world who can operate all the various Monotype machines needed to produce a typeface from scratch.
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The compendium of tree-related writing, from Ursula K. Le Guin ("The Word for World Is Forest") to Radiohead ("Fake Plastic Trees"), was translated into visuals of forests through an original tree typeface by Holten.
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Standing up, sweeping over, springing out, looping back, always with its feet on the ground — a designer has to be deep into the substance and spirit of a typeface to be able to draw this.
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While Sharif's supporters waged a Wikipedia war over the Calibri entry, type designer Thomas Phinney quietly dropped some history lessons about the typeface on Quora, and found himself caught in a maelstrom of global reporting.
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I was more taken with a bold '193s typeface poking out from behind a couple of chair legs, displaying an Arabic/French language version of the board game Risk: le jeu mondial de la strategie!
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The retro typeface — and a haunting, one-minute title video — became synonymous with the supernatural thriller series and, as the show gained in popularity, memes centered largely on its instantly recognizable title have become plentiful.
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In 1982, the type company Linotype issued a new version of Helvetica, called Neue Helvetica, which sought to to resolve some of those issues and make the typeface available to the blossoming desktop computer market.
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In 1913, when it was commissioned, the London Underground was the greatest network of its kind in the greatest city in the world, and Mr Johnston was determined to break new ground with his typeface.
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The press-texts, meanwhile, have made no attempt to spoon-feed information to viewers, most limited to only a few words printed in a small typeface on an otherwise blank sheet of white printer paper.
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Other features include a Perspex crystal (for a vintage feel), a polished step case (the term for a case with a ridge or step around the crystal), a brushed finish, Helvetica typeface and curved lugs.
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It now wants to be known as "a platform of mobility"; here's a look at its simplified new logo, in a typeface that was custom-designed for the company — and looks like an athleisure brand.
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Yet Ferrarese fails to frame his claim with examples of the community successfully coming together and instead focuses on an anarcho-punk house's use of English-language slogans written in a traditionally UK-punk typeface.
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The cover was a simple, enticing photo of the shaded veranda of a house in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwest Africa, with barely any typeface to muck it up.
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This string of text, in a three-inch typeface, follows the gallery's irregular contours, wrapping around the walls and dodging behind the pilasters, sprinkler pipes, and electrical conduits of the tidy but still raw space.
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Last week, Adobe announced the launch of "The Hidden Treasures — Bauhaus Dessau," a campaign led by typeface designer Erik Spiekermann to turn fragments and sketches from the Bauhaus archives into functional fonts for Adobe Typekit.
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At the start of next year, all cigarette packs will look exactly the same; plain dark green packages with the brand name denoted in small uniform typeface with even larger and more graphic health warnings.
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The manual specified things like which typeface to use on mastheads and letterheads (Helvetica medium) and proper placement of the insignia on vehicles (just below and to the left of the handle on the driver's side).
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The skateboarding magazine Thrasher's flaming logo (a version of the Banco typeface) became an unexpected trend when teenage runway models, fashion editors, and Rihanna started wearing T-shirts and sweatshirts with its name across the chest.
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Finally, for a genre that has sought many times over to create an independent alternative more authentic than the mainstream, it makes sense to choose the typeface for its connotative powers of imparting "ye olde" authenticity.
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The marketing department of Eindhoven, a Dutch city that was blighted by unemployment in the late 1990s but has subsequently become a technology and design hub, open-sourced a new visual identity and typeface in 2013.
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After publishing his book of photographs, "Palm Angels," which chronicles the Los Angeles skateboarding scene, the Italian creative director Francesco Ragazzi introduced a streetwear label of the same name, using a gothic typeface for its logo.
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With its orange-red, dark-gray, and black palette, and its NASA logo spelled out in a unique, geometric-serpentine typeface, Danne and Blackburn's design program for the U.S. space agency gave it a sleek, futuristic feel.
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Too many books by women, she felt, were given cutesy covers decorated with shoes and wildflowers, while prominent male authors got the bold colors and "jumbo, block-lettered masculine typeface" that mark a publication as an event.
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Part of the series' pleasure is how well it re-creates the details not only of life in 1983 but also of storytelling in 1983, from the synth music to the Benguiat typeface of the title credits.
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Seriously, the new issue of The Neu Jorker has has everything: chagrined WASPs, millennial-directed scoffs, an ad for Acela: The Train for Nieces™, the signature Irvin typeface, praise of David Mamet, even elaborate, overwrought syntax.
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Sharp-eyed observers noticed that the typeface used for Droga5's online campaign was remarkably similar to the one that promoted the 2006 movie, "The Da Vinci Code," based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown.
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Like a pair of jeans that look flattering on one person and unbecoming on the next, a typeface that comes across as elegant in a bit of sample text might look overcrowded when used for your company logo.
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"Many times, work is created specifically for the publication, as was the case for Dinamo Typefoundry, who made a custom typeface for Shoplifters 5 and created 10 pages of new work to show," says co-founder JP Haynie.
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According to some Redditors, it appears to be a customized version of Futura Bold Italic, with a slight rounding of ascenders — that's typeface-speak for the parts of Latin letters that extend over the rest of the letter.
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The city's ageing population required increased legibility, so letters became a little wider and the x-height (the basic height of a typeface without the ascenders and descenders) was increased by just under 8% to make it clearer.
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But the traditional holiday message, printed with the company's logo and typeface, had an unexpected tagline: "For a peaceful time: Say no to AfD," it read, referring to Alternative for Germany, the country's most prominent far-right party.
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The title, set in a so-'70s sans serif typeface that echoes the poster for "All That Jazz," announces this FX mini-series, starting Tuesday, as a work with flair and attention to detail, for enthusiasts and connoisseurs.
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Though Jews often refer to themselves as "people of the book," the canonical books they studied and prayed from into the 1970s were often dense with undifferentiated Hebrew and Aramaic typeface and translated in inflated or turgid English.
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Another piece in a stall is printed onto a shelf and asks if you'd take something on it if it was there; a roll of toilet paper covered in her words in a Courier typeface reflects on private space.
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In 2012, author Meg Wolitzer wrote a piece for the New York Times noting that book jackets for novels by women include domestic or pastoral scenes, whereas those by men are often typeface-only or with the author's name prominently displayed.
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Also throughout the first 250 years a lot of variant forms — straight-legged "R," single-story "a," rounded punctuation, these sort of alternate characters — were built into the typeface and abandoned by the time it moved into the digital realm.
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Each cover also stuck to a strict, simplistic design strategy: a central band of white contained the book's title in the Gill Sans typeface, while the color-coded top and bottom bands were adorned with the Penguin brand name and logo.
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There are also dyslexic-designed fonts, such as OpenDyslexic, Dyslexie Font and the Google Chrome app Dyslexia Unscrambled, which use unique letter shapes to transform any digital text into a typeface that is more easily readable for those with dyslexia.
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For everything from smartphones to TVs and refrigerators Now, Samsung is joining in, with the unveiling of the SamsungOne font, a typeface that hopes to help give a consistent and universal visual identity to the wide range of Samsung products.
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Paris's metro, which many people might associate with the bronze green Art Nouveau lettering found above the entrances of many older stations, had no unified signage until 1971, when the city adopted Métro, a sans serif based on the Univers typeface.
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For this year's edition, up-and-coming visual designer Jesseca Dollano stepped up to the plate and designed an expansive typeface for the challenge, one that manages to be futuristically cybernetic, mildly retro, and strangely cohesive at the same time.
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While most of the changes won't be terribly interesting to anyone who doesn't build websites for a living, one big change caught our eye: the federal government has created its own bespoke typeface for the project, fittingly named Public Sans.
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Modeled after Starbucks — down to a logo bearing a similar typeface — Arnold promises to "transport you across the Atlantic," a proposition that Cova says is successful, at least judging by the morning rush of customers in a downtown Milan store.
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Its designer, Vincent Connare, says he was helping develop an easy-to-use operating system for Microsoft in 1994 when he sketched a talk bubble for "a cute little yellow dog" — and had to invent a typeface suitable for dog talk.
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Its designer, Vincent Connare, says he was helping develop an easy-to-use operating system for Microsoft in 1994 when he sketched a talk bubble for a "cute little yellow dog" — and had to invent a typeface suitable for dog talk.
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Its designer, Vincent Connare, says he was helping develop an easy-to-use operating system for Microsoft in 1994 when he sketched a talk bubble for "a cute little yellow dog" — and needed to invent a typeface suitable for dog talk.
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This month, SFMoMA will dedicate its third-floor gallery to her meticulously rendered illustrations and splashy supergraphics — which helped to popularize Helvetica across the U.S. Solomon's typeface-oriented designs are directional, architectural and often adhere to a primary color palette.
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For "A Loving, Faithful Animal," Strick and Williams Martinez used the same typeface throughout but sliced "A Novel" in half, placing it at the top and bottom of the jacket to create a visual loop meant to represent the "inherited complexes" in families.
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If you're reminiscing about Halloween as we enter November, check out Sarah Rose Sharp's delightfully sinister writeups of a Minnesota history museum displaying its finest collection of hellish, creepy dolls and Hellvetica, a new typeface inspired by the ubiquitous font of our times.
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"We ended up looking at the pages of books themselves and that's what we ended yup re-anchoring this design on," he says, citing subtle details like the app's icon design, white background gradient, and typeface (Amazon's Bookerly, in case you were wondering).
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The livery design for President Kennedy's Air Force One marks the Boeing 707 with "United States of America" in the Caslon typeface, similar to the header on the Declaration of Independence, and wraps the tips of its body in red, white, and blue.
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The narrow 158-story tower is mostly glass, but is populated with numerous Art Deco flourishes, including vertical ribbons of chevron-patterned terra cotta, a lobby of overlapping cove lights recalling Radio City Music Hall and signage completed in an elongated typeface.
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Directed by Gary Hustwit, whose movies explore architecture and design ("Helvetica," from 2007, about the popular typeface, is among the best known), this film adheres to Rams's aesthetics by being brisk, matter of fact, well lighted and composed of clean lines, metaphorically speaking.
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