I have long been a fan of typefaces and a couple of weeks ago I had my first experience of hand printing. Some friends of ours have their own hand press and kindly allowed us to print the invitations for our civil partnership on it. Since then there have been a few type related items cropping up on Twitter and in my RSS feeds and these reminded me of some items I’ve read before on the topic. So, I thought I’d collate them all here for your enjoyment.
The first is this video which I saw a while ago:
Next are a couple of posts from Char Booth’s blog, info-mational, which link to some cool type tools on the web:
Then there’s this cartoon strip by Mike Dempsey:
And then, the inspiration for this post, a thought for the week from the Johnson Banks blog:
And if you’re not sick of the sight of type yet, here’s a link to the photos from our day of printing:
