The University of Oxford Style Guide has dropped Oxford commas. It’s a dark day. “As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can be…Read More
An article in the BBC today asks, “What’s so wrong with Comic Sans?” Dear BBC: everything. To begin, let’s look at your type sample for the article: First of all, all those things are true. Second of all, the BBC’s main line of defense seems to be that handwritten typefaces are fun! And yes, they…Read More
Internet Explorer 9 launches in beta today (tip for current IE users: Firefox is available for download here). This is exciting because in it, Microsoft supports Web Open Font Format, which among other things encodes certain formats of fonts so they can be embedded in a web page. It basically means that web typography can…Read More
“You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We…Read More
Keeping with my recent theme of a. things related to Lady Gaga and b. things related to typography, I feel it is vitally important that I embed a video which combines them both. If you are as nerdy as I am, you can download the audio here. On the same site, I found $40 prints…Read More
“The meaning is in the content of the text, and not in the typeface.”