Jul 29, 2024
FAB EP COVERS OF THE SIXTIES The scale of the 7” format produced some powerful graphics The situation in 1963 was dire. I was 11 and couldn’t get enough pop music. There was only one radio station in Britain and it played a mere couple of hours of pop...
Jul 15, 2024
MEANINGFUL MEMES There’s a story behind each of these quotes, and the fonts in which they‘re typeset. As part of my social media campaign, I’ve been posting quotes that are Shinntype specimens. Naturally, the font and setting must fit the tone of the words nicely, but...
Jul 8, 2024
Out of the blue, I experienced a Baskerville event. The Colophon, A Book Collectors Quarterly, Part 9, 1932, (detail). Font: Baskerville, 14/15 pt. ● Firstly, as I make a point of identifying all the typefaces appearing in the publications that...
Jul 1, 2024
Beaufort is well informed by Times Roman, but not what one might call a revival. Over the years, through successive waves of change, the Times typeface has been a persistent presence in my career—one way or another. In my father’s father’s basement was a...
Jun 24, 2024
TEN INDIGENOUS HISTORY BOOKS A thoroughly subjective selection, acquired at thrift and used book stores in southern Ontario For National Indigenous History Month, this is the pick of what I’ve come across and coveted, for one reason or another (notably delight to the... 
