Category Archives: typeface
TypeCon 2018 Conference Trip Report
[ The Call for Papers is out for TypeCon 2019, 28 August–1 September 2019, in Minneapolis, MN. Submission deadline has been extended to Saturday, 16 March 2019, 11:59pm EST. Read the Submission Guidelines [PDF] for useful tips. ] The 20th anniversary TypeCon (@typecon / … Continue reading
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Tagged fonts, portland, sota, type design, typesociety
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TypeCon 2017 Conference Trip Report
TypeCon (@typecon / @typesociety) was held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 23–27 August 2017 at the Boston Park Plaza hotel. I believe attendance was around 400. Unexpected connections and overlap: Bob Colby, who founded TypeCon, attended. He’s from the Boston area. I kept thinking … Continue reading
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Survey: Opinions on Music Notation & Scores
One of my next projects will be designing quality music symbol fonts. Getting back to my roots, so to speak. My first foray into type design 20+ years ago was working on music notation software research and development projects. The … Continue reading
1403 Vintage Mono font used in book cover design for Grantland’s sports analytics compilation book
[tweet https://twitter.com/composerjk/status/435685179454013440 width=”150″ align=”right”] While preparing to teach and work with some fabulous 6-12 grade movement teachers about social partner dancing at the 2014 Movement Education Week (@HealthyMovement), I heard an update from one of our typeface customers. Our 1403 Vintage Mono … Continue reading
Font Aid VII: The Philippines — the sun glyph I submitted
In November 2013, the Society of Typographic Aficionados (@typesociety) organized Font Aid VII: The Philippines. This project will produce a symbol typeface of images based on the eight-rayed sun of the Philippine flag, submitted by type designers from around the world. Sales of … Continue reading
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Tagged fontaid, redcross, sota, typeface, typesociety, typhoon haiyan, typography
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IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Vietnamese added)
I added a first pass at uppercase Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) to my IBM 1403 inspired monospace typeface. So, now, what started as a combination of the 52 characters represented by the A & H chains of the IBM 1403 printer has … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, fonts, IBM, IBM 1401, IBM 1403, monospace, monospaced, typeface, typography, vietnamese
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IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew)
I’ve been busy. As a break, I added a first pass at uppercase Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew to the IBM 1403 inspired typeface. There are fun challenges in fitting these scripts into a fixed width (especially one set initially for … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, cyrillic, fonts, greek, hebrew, IBM, IBM 1401, IBM 1403, monospaced, typeface, typography
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TYPOSF 2013 Conference Trip Report
On 10-11 April 2013, I attended the TYPOSF 2013 conference (@typosf) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (@ybca) in San Francisco, California. It was more of a design conference with a side of type design. Though I’m more interested in the … Continue reading
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IBM 1403 inspired typeface update
It’s been about a month since I started designing my IBM 1403 printer inspired typeface (initial post about it with an early sample image). The typeface has grown from 52 glyphs covering the A and H print chains to over 730 glyphs, … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, fonts, IBM, IBM 1401, IBM 1403, typeface, typography
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An IBM 1403 Printer Inspired Typeface (in progress)
Backstory The other day, 18 January 2013, Mark VandeWettering (@brainwagon) wondered aloud on twitter about the existence of a typeface reminiscent of the IBM 1403 line printer. Mark wrote about his path to this query. Stan Paddock (his 1401 blog) had created a scanned font (artifacts and all) from … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, fonts, IBM, IBM 1401, IBM 1403, typeface, typography
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