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Type designer and typographic researcher. Instructor in Braunschweig, Darmstadt, and Hamburg.
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Wow, now this is cool! All back issues of ITC's U&lc to be made available for download as free (searchable) PDFs – http://bit.ly/a0uLqn
"…no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented." – Barack Obama
Introducing the Carter Sans typeface, from Matthew Carter for ITC. This was a super project to work on! http://bit.ly/hj0ISl
I posted a list of the books I recommend to my students up on TypeOff. today – http://t.co/kYKmcVCh
Typography isn't just font choice, text arrangement and spacing, but organization of information (i.e, systems design, not window dressing).
If Facebook just bought a hipster photo service for $1 billion, just thinking how much Google would pay for a good type foundry!

Oh, wait.
RT @fontwerk: Another web fonts service is live today. Brought to you by Monotype. ⇒ http://blog.fonts.com/archives/549
I have an article about fonts up on @smashingmag! I hope you like it. Here’s the link – http://t.co/4gYQbj4c
In 1997 Steve Jobs cut 70% of Apple's products. If only the traditional font vendors could be so bold with their bloated libraries.
For @kupfers (and all other old sans fans), Wolfgang Homola's Breite Grotesk dissertation is online as a PDF … http://bit.ly/ghucuD
Jan Tschichold said (in 1932) that words could be set in all-caps if they were just 8 letters long, or less. More than 9 letters? No way.
I wish Ken Burns would make a documentary series about American type founding.
Check it out, German-readers! @motaitalic got a feature in the Berlin newspaper today. http://bit.ly/kn9Ne5
Fuck, this is my favorite blog post by anyone ever. Just look at the letter pictures if you don't read German – http://is.gd/tbpNPX
Elegy: The ITC foundry's script-style logo, originally by Ed Benguiat, now as a Monotype typeface… Read about it here – http://bit.ly/bZ5Zp4
The triumph of capitalism over communism, in one photo. http://t.co/ZhIdkcKs
"Impressive web font development milestones" are met with quality, not with quantity.
Reichel's style of simplification in letter drawing was tried—and copied—by many other designers' typefaces. But no one ever did it better.