Friday Roundup
“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which …” — William Butler Yeats
- Read at Work : amusing
- The all-important author photo : lessons from Capote
- It’s difficult to talk coherently about typefaces without some sense of the history of typography
- Nipplephobia : watch out, they’re coming to get you
- Books flying off the shelves in Spain
- PhotoShop line art trick : should work
- Second guessing Google : what makes a good favicon?
- The saddest post I have read in a long time
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Posted: June 27th, 2008 under marketing.
Comments: 2
Comments
Comment from xensen
Time: June 28, 2008, 3:39 pm
Yes, I have read it. It’s a good source on classic faces.
Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style has less depth on particular faces, but it gives the historical framework in a coherent way, placing type in the overall cultural context.
Comment from Daniel
Time: June 28, 2008, 1:49 pm
Godine (www.godine.com) publishes a book called Anatomy of a Typeface, which is a nice history of a good number of common typefaces – nicely accessible.