I brought my camera along for my daily constitutional and decided to take in some of the local signage. Gill Sans (aka “England’s Helvetica”) seems to be a popular typeface around Buffalo, which is fine but can be a bit tiresome. Kinda like a girl you had a fling with once and for some reason […]

There was a lively panel discussion at TypeCon 2008 on the issue of embedded fonts on the web [an overview can be found here]. A pretty controversial subject because there are 2 problems that need to be solved — the web designer’s desire to use typography, and the type designer’s desire to be paid for their work. […]

I’ve been doing some experiments with typographical projections onto a mathematical 3d surface. This comes from some thoughts I had after reading some basic work on topology. The idea is that a given constructed body of text — or even collection of ideas, can have a different inferred meaning depending on one’s situation to the piece.