Notes

The Qualities of Design

I am excited to see Fit in use in this small republication of The Qualities of Design, designed by Pavel Kedich.

The text is a chapter from a 1920 book by Harry Lawrence Gage which discusses harmony, balance, and shape. The text is set in Adobe Caslon Pro, and is broken up by large uses of Fit for display. Graphik is used for all of the captions.

This is one of a series of websites by Kedich that uses copyright-free text to play with layout and typography (see also Printing in Relation to Graphic Art).

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Font of the Month Club

Now for something a little different: I’m inviting you, my fellow type lover, to join the new Font of the Month Club! Sign up to get a fresh new font lovingly made by me, every single month.

In addition to my retail families, I love working on little side projects that explore a certain historical style or concept, such as standalone display faces and experimental designs. Most of these don’t ever get a proper release, so the Font of the Month Club is my way of sharing them with you.

Learn more and sign up for as little as $6/month at fontofthemonth.club!

I shared my thoughts about William Addison Dwiggins and his influence on Turnip in this nice piece on Typographica. It celebrates the end of Letterform Archive’s campaign to fund their new Dwiggins book, which I am pretty excited about.

Variable fonts at SND

This past week, I gave a talk with Roger Black and Dave Crossland about OpenType variable fonts at the Society of News Design conference in Charlotte. The talk wasn’t recorded, but here are a couple clips to give you a taste:

.@djrrb at #SNDCLT typography session: "We should think of type as a fluid space." pic.twitter.com/qPWTW1DKoz

— Clare Lynne Ramirez (@clareramirez_) April 20, 2017

.@djrrb's Fit always fits! #sndclt @snd pic.twitter.com/bYNsSE6NVd

— Reed Reibstein (@rreibstein) April 20, 2017

Thank you to SND for having me, and for all who came to see the talk! Also, I was pretty psyched to see Input and Output used all over the entire conference identity. 👍

A big 👋 to my variable font friends at TYPO Labs! I am at home dragging lots of sliders, but would rather be dragging them with you!