My life and times

Article Abstract:

A type designer and graphic artist, shares his experience of developing the Beaufort typeface for Design. He considered Times, a photocomposing system, as the standard to produce the typeface. He incorporated the proportions and the baroque stress of the Times' lower case in Beaufort. The removal of the fine serifs and hairlines freed Beaufort from the shortcomings of the Times. The serifs are the backbone of Beaufort, and their curvature is between that of a wedge and a bracket. He also discusses how he was introduced to typography by his grandfather.

Reports, Designers

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The other side of modern: how Design magazine's new headline face acquired its faux finish

Article Abstract:

A type designer with the Design magazine describes the changes he has made in the modern typeface and how his designing of a new Walbaum Condensed Titling has resulted in a faux finish. The new Walbaum Condensed Titling incorporates thinner hairlines and squarer curves, and is more condensed with a tighter fit. The designer narrates how he has added swelled serifs to this typeface with sharpened outside corners and rounded inside corners. This has resulted in strokes that have slightly thinner middle portions.

Innovations

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Type hype

Article Abstract:

The Poynter Institute for Media Studies has developed a new text typeface, Poynter Oldstyle, designed by the Font Bureau's Tobias Frere-Jones. Among the most notable features of the new typeface are the protrusion of ascenders above the cap heights and the simulation of printing pressures but the typeface's letter forms are bland and lack elegance.

Evaluation, Product introduction, Poynter Institute for Media Studies

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