Sweet! Medieval initials on cookies! Really wonderful. http://bit.ly/LN8AxU

Short article about Nokia developing a font that works in many scripts. I'm very impressed when someone designs a font that works well not only for Latin and Cyrillic scripts, for example, but also Devanagari, Tamil, Malayalam, Thai, Hebrew, etc. I wonder how many hours they put into this project!

My education and training is in psychology, but my greater passion is type design. So, I've often thought of combining the two by doing some research on the psychology of type, how it impacts us emotionally and such. Not suprisingly, this video caught my eye; but, in this case, it's the reverse: it seems the typeface responds to human emotions, or "facial dimensions". The results don't impress me much esthetically, but I like the concept. Imagine using a font that morphed subtly in reponse to your mood. Could perhaps be a bit unnerving, or fun, or great, depending. Check out the video at: http://www.typefaceproject.com

A book in Spanish on "how to create typefaces: from sketch to screen."

«¿Cómo se diseña una tipografía?, ¿qué caracteres son imprescindibles en una fuente?, ¿qué diferencia hay entre una redonda, una inclinada y una cursiva? Cómo crear tipografías es una guía que responde a estas y a otras preguntas de una manera clara y directa, enfocada tanto a neófitos como a iniciados en el diseño tipográfico y la apasionante tarea de dibujar una fuente, desde el boceto a la pantalla.»

Para más información: http://bit.ly/Ji70OG

An interesting article from Computer Arts magazine about Iceland's first (digital) type foundry being set up by Guðmundur Úlfarsson with Mads Freund Brunse. Hmm, the only time I was in Iceland (on my way to mainland Europe) was long before digital type design was even a possibility. Anyway, always inspiring to read about these startups. Now I'll know whom to consult when I have questions about designing that pesky lowercase 'eth' (eð).

An overview of contemporary type design written by MoMA design and architecture curator Paola Antonelli.

Speaking of Helvetica (previous post), here is a short (5:20) excerpt from the documentary "Helvetica" in which the famous type designer, Hermann Zapf, shares his thoughts about Helvetica.

Ok, all those people who claim to hate Helvetica will probably not want this deck of playing cards. But, you must admit that the design is rather striking!

http://curiositycounts.com/post/10891515615/helveticards-brilliant-minimalist...

Here is a short list of references for students beginning to work on Greek. It is not exhaustive by any measure, only a starting point.

I'm posting this here so that I will have it handy for the next time I start working on the Greek codepage for one of my fonts. Perhaps other type designers will find this helpful.

A short video (7 minutes) touching on type design, typography, and infographics, featuring (among others) world-famous type designers Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler (shown above).