Friday afternoon, winding down by sketching up a slabby clarendon-like face in FontForge.

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Usage of Oswald (above) from Google Web Fonts increased by  251% over the last couple of months. The number of CSS requests for the face  is now nearing 600,000,000. What’s incredible with those figures is that Oswald is a single face; no italics or weights. I didn’t imagine such popularity when i knocked it together. [...]

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Scanning through piles of old foundry and printer’s specimen books, it can become clear how fonts are the result of redrawing, copying, reviving and/or the change in ownership of type foundries. Here are a few pretty randomly selected faces issued by the defunct Stephenson Blake foundry, showing the fonts that they spawned. Some faces, rarely, [...]

‘Bassbin’ is a work-in-progress reworking of Stephenson Blake’s ‘Basuto’ typeface, issued c.1927. The Stephenson Blake design was digitised and re-issued in 2000 by Red Rooster/International TypeFounders(ITF) re-using the original ‘Basuto’ name. The Stephenson Blake face (and the ITF copy) is a caps only typeface, but ‘Bassbin’ is being designed with lowercase characters and extended european [...]

Empty Centers & Endless Circularity – Modernism’s Typographic Geometry.
Brief notes from the writings of Peter Halley.

“Behind the wheel. It is to be at the altar of the linear. Hands grasping the cool plastic of the linear made circular. Eyes on the road. Following not only the road, but the cool geometry [...]