What the heck is unicode?
Remember computers just deal with numbers. Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It allows data to be transported through many different systems without corruption.
Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.
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Instructions
Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer’s solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it.
I love typography, letters and designing with type. I use to set type for a number of years so I had practice long before there was Pagemaker, Quark, or InDesign. My scores were usually like the one captured below.
The beauty of printing with woodtype. Help WNY Book Arts Center purchase this type. If they don’t get it the letters could be sold to places that will then create bookends or something out of them. Do a good thing, support this project on Kickstarter.
Read MoreToday I followed a tweet to MoMA’s site. Something new had been added to their collection, something unexpected.
This first selection of 23 typefaces represent a new branch in our collection tree. They are all digital or designed with a foresight of the scope of the digital revolution, and they all significantly respond to the technological advancements occurring in the second half of the twentieth century. Each is a milestone in the history of typography.
The newly acquired typefaces will all be on display in Standard Deviations, an installation of the contemporary design galleries opening March 2 on the third floor. You can find the full post by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design here. These are a couple of our favorites that have been included.
Neville Brody FF Blur (1992)
Erik Spiekermann FF Meta (1984–1991)
Albert-Jan Pool FF DIN (1995)
Legendary typographer Matthew Carter — the man behind a spate of typefaces that has quietly made our worlds more legible, including, most notably, Microsoft’s Verdana — is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, it was announced today. — fastcompany
It’s about darn time don’t you think?
Everywhere you look Matthew Carter has made a difference in what you see when you read. That’s because if he hasn’t designed it his dedication to the importance of letters has touched the world of type design that ripples for generations.
If you’ve read Time, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Wired, Newsweek or The New York Times you have experienced the typography of Matthew Carter.
Here’s a bit of video.
Read MoreAn example of the work of the Talking Heads Tibor Kalman. Green messages ahead of the curve.
Tibor loved type and moving type even better. This was one of his first efforts.
Read MoreI have always loved poetry. It has drawn some of the most vivid pictures I have ever seen. In this case Ronnie Bruce a film student at Temple University visualizes the words of poet Taylor Mali using typography and animation. So well executed we do not lose sight of the meaning or the picture they draw — we gain new insight into the pacing and meaning the poet articulates. We read the words as the poet says them; burnishing them into our heart and mind.
This vid realizes the potential of communicators when they do good work. It is not spectacular. It is not just clever. It speaks and we understand.
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