type design – PLAZM http://urbanhonking.com/plazm Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:58:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Brand New Wood Type http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/09/25/brand-new-wood-type/ http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/09/25/brand-new-wood-type/#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:13:00 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/09/25/brand-new-wood-type/ Continue reading ]]>
How often do you get to say something like that? Matthew Carter designed Carter Latin, his first wood type back in 2002 and it has taken this long for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum to manufacture it. The process was recently accelerated by increased sophistication in laser cutting technology. The big unveiling happens November 20-22 at the Wayzgoose Weekend, a gathering of wood type aficionados.

More info here.

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Graffiti Archaeology: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/09/02/graffiti-archaeology-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/ http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/09/02/graffiti-archaeology-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/#respond Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:46:00 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/09/02/graffiti-archaeology-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/ Continue reading ]]>
I totally forgot about this site until I came across it again today… still just as cool. Unearth the archaeology of a variety of graffiti walls, layer by layer over the years.

Dig in here
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The Potential of Web Typography http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/06/29/the-potential-of-web-typography/ http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/06/29/the-potential-of-web-typography/#respond Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:06:00 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2009/06/29/the-potential-of-web-typography/ Continue reading ]]>


Firefox 3.5 is out now- go get that sucker!

The Mozilla Japan team asked that Craig Mod and I jointly write and design this demo page of what is now possible using Firefox’s new @font-face, a CSS rule implemented in Firefox’s latest 3.5 release which allows web designers to reference fonts not installed on end user machines.

(In other words: it allows web designers to store fonts on their server and reference them in CSS , regardless of what fonts the user browsing the page has installed.)

Look at it in Firefox- it is designed for that. It looks OK enough in Safari, but we’d rather have you see it in all its glory. Click around a bit and see what the future of typography for the web looks like….

We lucked out in getting Underware to agree to being our foundry partners in making this demo happen. The demo coincides with the release of their new typeface, Liza.

Original referring page on Mozilla’s site is here.

Thanks to Craig for dropping crazy hours with me on getting this project together. Shoutouts to Mozilla for their support, encouragement, and sheer radicalness!

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