A talk on Jack Stauffacher’s legacy
In October I joined Chuck Byrne to give a two-part talk about the life and work of Jack W. Stauffacher for the Society of Printers in Boston. No doubt in a normal time we would have traveled to Boston...
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Typographer’s lunch
When Dave Peattie, the vice-president of Publishing Professionals Network, asked me if I’d write a short column about type for the PPN email newsletter that he edits, naturally I said yes. Thanks to...
View ArticleTypographer’s lunch 3: DJR’s Font of the Month Club
Need a font that’s strange and bonkers but also well made and usable? And a new one every month? Then join the Font of the Month Club. Type designer David Jonathan Ross, better known as “DJR,” worked...
View ArticleTypographer’s lunch 4: Gerard Unger’s life in letters
Christopher Burke, Gerard Unger: Life in Letters (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, 2021). Christopher Burke writes clearly and knowledgeably about type and the people who design it. His...
View ArticleTypographer’s lunch 5: Letterform Archive in its new home
I’ve just had a chance to peek behind the curtain at the Letterform Archive, to see its new digs in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. The move to larger quarters began before the pandemic,...
View ArticleTypographer’s lunch 6: the coming demise of PostScript fonts
When I recently opened a book file that had been created several years ago, InDesign informed me, “Type 1 fonts will no longer be supported starting 2023. Your document contains 1 Type 1 fonts.” It was...
View ArticleTypographer’s lunch 7: NYC subway map debate
In 1978, in the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York, a heated debate took place over a proposed redesign of the NYC subway map. In 2021, Gary Hustwit and Standards Manual published the transcript of...
View ArticleTypographer’s lunch 8: hey, look!
I would like to direct your attention to a typographic element that is often ignored. Allow me to point out what makes it unique. That element? The manicule. It’s also known as a fist, a hand, and by...
View ArticleTypographic memories: designing for Copper Canyon
After a bit of a hiatus, I’ve come back to my sporadic typographic memoir, this time to talk about the years in the 1990s when I was the house designer for Copper Canyon Press. In that time, I designed...
View ArticleLittle, Big
Its origins are lost in the mists of time. Ron Drummond, the one-man publisher of Incunabula, reminds us that he first broached the subject to John Crowley thirty years ago: the subject being a...
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