Category Archives: typeface
TypeCon 2015 Conference Trip Report
TypeCon (@typecon / @typesociety) was held in Denver, Colorado, USA, 12–16 August 2015. Though attendance seemed lighter this year, it was another great conference. Lots of good folk, past attendees, and ones at their first TypeCon. In between TypeCon and finishing up this … Continue reading
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TypeCon 2014 Conference Trip Report
27 Jun 2015 Update: Registration is now open for TypeCon 2015: Condensed, 12–16 August 2015 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Save $50 by first becoming a member of SOTA. Check out the great workshops and a preview of the program! Hope to … 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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TypeCon 2013 Conference Trip Report
Another great type design conference happened in Portland, Oregon, August 2013: TypeCon 2013: portl&. I ended up not taking as many notes, this year, so this trip report may be less extensive than the TypeCon 2012 trip report. The weekend … Continue reading
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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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