Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Last week I mentioned the atomic pen , which scientists used to construct some awfully tiny letters one atom at a time. These are small letters indeed: measuring two nanometers in height, they’re about ¹ ⁄ ₄₀₀₀₀ the thickness of a human hair, which surely gives their inventor sufficient authority to issue the casual throwdown that “it’s not possible to write any smaller than this.” But it is, of course, and the technique for doing
Illustration Art
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Last week's story about Martha Sawyers reminded me that many women's magazines in those days lured readers with tales of romance on a tropical island. Here we see an uninhibited island girl inviting a western dignitary in for a dip: Thousands of housewives in places like Kansas and Ohio turned regularly to Redbook , Cosmopolitan and similar magazines for stories of love under a tropical moon.
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 8, 2008
Typographically, the Republic of Korea has much to celebrate. The world’s first typefaces cast in metal were made in Korea: a fourteenth century book in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris establishes Korean printing from movable type at least as far back as 1377, though Korean typefounding may date to 1234, some 221 years before Gutenberg.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Some lovelies from the New York Public Library. —JH. No. 819191. Petits Genres, a lithograph by J. Midolle, 1834-1835. No. 419695. Photographs of British Algae, Vol. 1. A volume of cyanotypes by photographer Anna Atkins, 1843-53. No. 481256. Three several alphabets of the Japanese language, by Engelbert Kaempfer, 1727. No. 818525. The Prang examples of historic ornament: Arabian.
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Yesterday, our 1,000th Facebook friend became a fan of H&Co. Won’t you join us? Fellow typographers have joined us on Facebook to start conversations, share links of interest, and post photographs of things made with H&Co fonts. (Now showing: group member Rick Griffith’s typographic stencils made from Gotham, in which the scale isn’t immediately apparent; “it’s about eight feet long,” says Rick casually…) Bring your favorite work featuring H&
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Our own Andy Clymer as returned from a trip out west with some fine photos of Las Vegas’s infamous neon boneyard. A project of the Neon Museum , a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of one of the nation’s great lettering traditions, the neon boneyard is of course located in the Las Vegas desert: an ideal climate for preservation, and convenient to the center of the energetic neon carnage of the 21st century.
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 15, 2008
This summer, the Obama campaign asked me to design a typographic poster for the Artists for Obama series. It’s now available sold out at the Obama for America website, in a numbered edition of 5,000. —JH.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 13, 2008
I am not wistful for the days of carbon paper and Ko-Rec-Type , and the era of the typewriter ended before I ever figured out what to do with those wheely-eraser-brush-things that populated my parents’ offices. But a truly grand leftover from the vanished world of the typewriter is the ribbon tin; my friend Tal sent me this collection of product packaging shots on Flickr, which are resplendent with lovely lettering.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Discovered: the New York Public Library’s gallery of prints, drawings and photographs is now available online. I recommend some keyword searches with typographic terms: ‘lettering’ yielded this little number , a scrapbook of late 19th century advertising cards in resplendent Victorian style. A search for ‘ Cyrillic ’ is equally beguiling!
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
OCTOBER 3, 2008
Not really much to add to that. It’s here , one block east of the H&Co offices. —JH.
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