by Joel Friedlander | Jun 22, 2015 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Many ebook readers—and not just us typography nerds and designers, either—have complained about the limited font set provided with the major e-readers. Considering the vast sums that have been spent on developing these devices, it’s always seemed odd to me that...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 24, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
The first sans serif typeface I lived with was Univers, and I fell hard. It was first love, after all. At some point I got entranced by the dark charms of the hybrid Optima, an infatuation which had to run its course. Optima was so versatile. Eventually things had to...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 19, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
When you’re working with type every day, you become sensitive to type design, an area of subtle refinement and architecture on a very small scale. Book designers, of course, are particularly interested in text typefaces for setting long documents, but typefaces...