Fonts

This post is about fonts. It’s for you if you care about the nitty-gritty details of how letters are lined out. If not, it’s probably not worth your time. Secretly, I’ve always wanted to be a designer. It’s not that secret because I’ll tell anyone. The truth is that technology is not helpful unless it is easy to use. To that end, I’m a font nerd. I’m currently reading Comic Sans, a book about a font people love to hate. I’m also a member of the Secret Type Club, run by the famous Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits. ...

I’m starting a new category, and while technically it should be called a typeface, I’m using fonts. I’m a fan of typography. I think all great designers are. I’m not a great designer, but I have aspirations of being a better one than I am now. Anyway, I see fonts that I enjoy I will be mentioning them here for documentation purposes and hopefully to help others. I recently ordered some boxer shorts from J. Crew. I received them and was caught by the typography on the belly-band. Here it is: ...