ILLINOIS SPOTLIGHT: Rockford letterpress firm's owners put 'new life' in ... The Republic They mix font sizes, spacing and pictures — a no-no in the world of traditional letterpress printing — to bring modern ideas to an industry that's been around for more than 500 years. The press and perhaps its most famous byproduct, the Gutenberg ...
Chattanooga designers work to capture city's soul and translate it to a unique ... Chattanooga Times Free Press “Slab-serif fonts were commonly used in industry in the 1950s and '60s,” said Jeremy Dooley, one of the type designers working on the project. “It's heavy and it has a lot of impact.” The typeface has square geometric elements, which are meant to evoke ...
Avería: an "average" font Boing Boing By Cory Doctorow at 12:05 pm Saturday, Feb 4 Dan Sayers ("I am not a type designer") decided to explore "generative" type-design by seeing what happened when he "averaged out" a large number of fonts. Once he got his teeth into the problem, ...
