MOMA (The Museum of Moden Art in New York) recently acquired 23 digital typefaces for their collection. Although MOMA includes many works featuring typography, the only typeface previously in their collection was 36-point Helvetica Bold lead type.
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Helvetica redesigned
News of Linotype’s latest typeface offering, Neue Haas Grotesk has swept the typosphere since its release on June 7th. The story goes that the famous digital sans-serif typeface we know today as Helvetica, was originally designed by Max Miedinger in the ’50s as Neue Haas Grotesk. The conversion from metal type to digital resulted in a one-size-fits-all… Continue reading Helvetica redesigned
Wish list: TypoShirt One
TypoShirt One claims to be the first book to focus exclusively on typography in t-shirt design and features over 1700 designs from around the world, covering independent artists to global brands.
Fonts in use
This post is about three different, yet related things that caught my attention in recently…
Wood Type Revival
An ambitious project to convert ten of the world’s rarest and most unique historic wood typefaces into digital fonts.
Jack Daniel’s label update
The iconic Jack Daniel’s label gets a design update.