As Margo Channing famously said, “You better buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” The issue that has fired all cylinders is that the Ford Motor Company is designing a series of cars over the next few years with larger fonts and gauges in order, in part, to appeal to Baby Boomers. Out […]
Font Faces On The Web: New Developments Allow New Flexibilities
In a satisfying moment of serendipity that web browsing allows so many of us, I found an extended discussion about recent developments about the expanding opportunities to use creative fonts on websites to follow up on yesterday’s brief history of two popular print fonts (Baskerville and Gill Sans). The development of fonts from the scribe’s […]
#GraphicDesign: Fonts Faces Provide The Foundation Of Good Communication
Whenever the first homo sapien (sapien) first put his or her finger into clay or ash and marked that clay or ash to communicate an idea to another person, she or he created written language, and perhaps a font face. Over the next N millennia language groups evolved largely toward two camps: the pictographic written […]