graphemes

I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to take the typography for my website and blog, since I can probably do better than Helvetica. I still want to make sure my site pages are small and that load times are fast, but I think I can still keep those and do something a little more unique. I think I’ll leave the body text as Helvetica, but I want a stronger font for the page titles. Maybe something grotesk ? Or blackletter ?

Some of my typography bookmarks:

This Just In: Milwaukee Transit Passes

In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now in our collection.

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards

Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

Future Fonts

A new way to license typefaces while they are still in progress.

Fonts In Use

A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.