Note to Self: A free handwritten typeface

Note to self is a typeface I developed while during my graphic design undergraduate degree at OCAD. It is a typeface based on my handwriting and comes with a principal and companion typeface – Fifth Grade and Third Year. Fifth Grade originated – yep you guessed it –...

Bad type

Bad type? Often we see supplied text that has been incorrectly set for print and the web. Most graphic designers are aware of ‘proper’ practices with the use of such items as ‘smart quotes’ and apostrophes, as well as em and en dashes. See the sample (above) for the...

Old is New

To me anyway, Helvetica is a kind of paradox – it is both old and modern. When you stop to consider that this font has roots that go all the way back to the Bauhaus movement of mid 1920s (Germany), in terms of years anyway, it is very old. When you consider the...
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