So close, and yet so far. Slanting type is a PITA.

It’s time to celebrate the end of the spring semester and the beginning of summer. For the next two weeks all Armitage family packages are 20% off at MyFonts.

This is what it’s like to get mail from Paul Shaw, whose composition looks much better than that Miró over my shoulder.

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August Heffner of MoMA explains how the MoMA designers use custom type to enhance an exhibition’s identity.

Reading guru Kevin Larson of Microsoft gave a great talk about reading at the MIX10 conference. It has been posted online and is a must-watch for typographers and type designers.

River Valley TV has a great selection of videos of typography conference presentations. Watch them.

It has been announced that American Wood Type, the work of the patron saint of the medium, Rob Roy Kelly, is being republished by Liber Apertus Press as a $30 softcover facsimile. This is great news, and I must extend heartfelt gratitude to Liber Apertus for working out the copyright details and putting this incredible book back in print. Nick Sherman has written more over at WoodTyper.

I love type with optical sizes. There really isn’t enough of it. But most faces with optical sizes are workhorse types for publication designers. Designers at Adobe and H&FJ give lots of love to text fonts, but big girls need love too. That’s why I’m working on fat face with optical sizes ranging from 12 to 120 points.

The Type Society has released Font Aid 4, a font of ampersands being sold to aid relief efforts of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. You can read about it or just buy it. $20 gets you a few hundred ampersands (I drew one) collected into a font by Chank Diesel.

From a building in Chelsea, NYC.