Typography
Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera
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Dumb Ways to Die began as an Australian rail safety campaign back in 2012. I heard the viral jingle recently, and it got me to thinking about a particular kind of printed ephemera. From about 1530, London began to publish Bills of Mortality. By the close of the same century, these lists […]
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ILT Blog Redesign
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Launched in 2007, the ILT blog is now 18 years old. It was last redesigned in 2015. A lot has happened in that decade, including the launch of our Font Store, ILT Academy, and ILT Trust. The main problem with the existing homepage was that, besides the most recent posts, […]
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Archive Matrix
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You’d think that by 2025 I would be sick of anything addressing the “future” by now. Having lived through the 60s through 90s visionary predictions of a pessimistic future – and having been a Philip K. Dick fan until well into the 2000s – I’ve had more than enough dystopian […]
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Archive Matrix
Read the book, Typographic Firsts
You’d think that by 2025 I would be sick of anything addressing the “future” by now. Having lived from the 60s through 90s, visionary predictions of a pessimistic future – and having been a Philip K. Dick fan until well into the 2000s – I’ve had more than enough dystopian predictions come true. I look […]
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: OTC Textura
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Blackletter typefaces elicit many contradictory emotions depending, of course, on the context in which they are used and the manner in which they are composed. Sometimes they bark commands – STOP or BEWARE. Other times they are comforting in an ecclesiastical way – Christmas and Easter greetings. During World War […]
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: OTC Textura
Read the book, Typographic Firsts
Blackletter typefaces elicit many contradictory emotions depending, of course, on the context in which they are used and the manner in which they are composed. Sometimes they bark commands – STOP or BEWARE. Other times they are comforting in an ecclesiastical way – Christmas and Easter greetings. During World War II Blackletter was menacing for […]
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ILT QUIZ: Graphic Design 101
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25 multiple-choice questions. to test your knowledge of graphic design fundamentals.
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The Font Game: Level 01 (timed)
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The Font Game is back! Thirty multiple-choice questions to test your font identification skills.
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Ritualist
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Without screwing up the space/time continuum, if I could go back in time, let’s say 45 years ago when I edited, art directed and designed underground tabloid magazine-newspapers, and I could take back a contemporary font family to use as the exclusive typeface for one of those periodicals, I would […]
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Ritualist
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Without screwing up the space/time continuum, if I could go back in time, let’s say 45 years ago when I edited, art directed and designed underground tabloid magazine-newspapers, and I could take back a contemporary font family to use as the exclusive typeface for one of those periodicals, I would choose Ritualist designed by Justin […]
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Experimo
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I ordered my first typeface in 1967. I had been dispatched by the art director, where I had landed my first job as a mechanical artist, to a neighborhood photo typesetting/print shop to select a style of phototype from the thick sample catalog in which were kept hundreds of lettering variations
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