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Calligraphic inspiration and upside down Ns

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Calligraphi.ca

Two calligraphy blogs to inspire your hand lettering and the strange phenomenon of the upside down N…

Friday find: Nice Type videos

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Nice Type on Vimeo

Look, a channel on Vimeo dedicated to typographic videos! And did you know there are such things as pre-animated typefaces? I learn something new every day…

The quest for an average font

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The quest for an average font

The fascinating explorations in finding an average of all existing fonts has lead different people down different roads, here are some examples…

Dutch design legend Wim Crouwel

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Wim Crouwel

He started out as a painter, but got hooked on typography instead. Let’s take a look at the fantastic grid-based typographic works of living design icon Wim Crouwel.

Dyslexie: A font for people with dyslexia

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Dutch graphic designer Christian Boer has designed a font to help those who suffer from dyslexia to minimise reading errors. Drawing on his own experience of dyslexia he made custom tweaks to all the letterforms and punctuation of the western alphabet.