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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

Discover the stories behind the headlines: ‪http://www.foreverunquiet.co.uk‬‬ This is a film about font. Times New Roman was designed for The Times in 1931 and is one of the most recognised fonts in the world. Whether you like it or not, it is not a font to be ignored.

 

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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