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A font for building charts: FF Chartwell

Such a great idea, to use OpenType technology to convert math formulas to actual visualization! Have yet to test it - but thank you very much to my colleague Jim Kynvin for spotting it! Font is made by FontFont: here's the source link.

tags: font, typesface, data visualization, infographics, design, typography, opentype
categories: reference, research notes
Tuesday 12.02.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

A short film about Times New Roman and why we shouldn't use it

 

Source:Times

tags: times, video, film, font, type, typeface
categories: reference
Tuesday 10.07.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Vignelli canon: use of fonts

In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. The Vignelli Canon, p. 56

tags: design, font, urbino
categories: reference
Thursday 07.17.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Here's the praise to Calibri

Source: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/calibri/ Calibri has been behaving badly, tell us presentation specialists at Slidebean: 'Calibri is one of the ugliest fonts ever invented by mankind, I hold it up there with other design fails such the infamous Comic Sans MS'.

Ouch. After reading an introduction like this the only fonts I want to use now are by all means only Comic Sans and Calibri! I'm even ready to forget my beloved Arial and Times New Roman for a while. (:

Image source: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/calibri/

tags: font, typography
categories: reference, research notes
Tuesday 06.24.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

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