November 24, 2020 The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway “Postmodernism had effectively exposed the subjective nature of the Modernist notion of neutral, rational and universal design and, in doing so, had undercut the principal reasons that many designers had given for choosing Helvetica over all other faces.”
October 30, 2020 A Free Hyperlegible Typeface from the Braille Institute “People may be surprised that the vast majority of the students who come to Braille Institute have some degree of vision… They’re not 100% blind.”
October 27, 2020 The 1913 dictionary is better — Recomendo “modern dictionaries have lazy definitions that focus too much on simplicity at the cost of precision.”