ITs History!Jul 20, 2025
1996 bundled with #Windows95 the popularity of #comicsans MS increased massively. It's not just the most popular leftover by Microsoft BOB, but maybe the best point of Steve Jobs about corporate culture at #Microsoft. https://youtu.be/CupJsrSqk2A

According to Wikipedia the font designer was inspired by the lettering of John Costanza and Dave Gibbons. Seriously, not Jan #Tschichold, no kidding. #comicsans no #comedy, no #copyright, no #joke https://youtu.be/XrR9TCRDm6U

Not even this deep dive into the #font mentioned it's origin at #penguinbooks, or the original #designer #JanTschichold
https://youtu.be/ynliPsRmmcQ

Appropriately annoying is gunnarollas song about #SansSerifSyphillis of #typography not by design, but #copyrightinfringement
https://youtu.be/OBibXwwLBts
raphaelNov 12, 2024

sometimes, you spend half the evening making a silly #meme, and when you look upon what you wrought, you realise the amount of people in the entire world for whom it is funny, besides yourself, might just be in the very low double digits.

#books #lovecraft #necronomicon #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #design #jantschichold

Raúl RedondoAug 28, 2024

Canelita estos bocetos de Jan Tschichold para el diseño del logotipo de Penguin books. El requerimiento era que fuera un pingüino digno pero ágil.

Más imágenes en http://dustyburrito.blogspot.com/2009/12/penguin-group-logos.html?m=1

#Diseño #Logo #PenguinBooks #JanTschichold

Penguin Group Logos

The penguin logo came into being in response to the publisher's desire for a design that was "dignified yet flippant." That perfectly sums u...

Letterform ArchiveOct 31, 2023

Jan Tchichold, Contemporary Typography, New Laboratory Press, 1961

And the same booklet with Jack Stauffacher’s custom dust jacket from his personal library. (Stauffacher established the New Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.)

More of Jack’s jackets: https://letterformarchive.org/news/jack-stauffacher-studio/#jackets

#JackStauffacher #BookJackets #BookCovers #JanTschichold #Typography

This Just In: Jack Stauffacher’s Studio - Letterform Archive

For over 50 years, Stauffacher lived a singular life at the heart of San Francisco’s creative community. Now, his legacy lives on at the Archive, and his prints are the subject of our third book.

Letterform Archive
Fonts In UseJun 6, 2023

Staff pick:
Kunsthalle Praha is a new contemporary art #museum in the Czech capital.

For the visual identity, Studio Najbrt designed a custom #typeface based on a 1930s alphabet by #JanTschichold. It’s supported by Suisse Int’l by Swiss Typefaces
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54063/kunsthalle-praha-visual-identity-and-signs

#FontsInUse #Typefaces #Fonts #Typography

Kunsthalle Praha visual identity and signs

Studio Najbrt designed the visual identity of Kunsthalle Praha, a contemporary art museum that opened its doors in February 2022. The logo was created already five years earlier. Its design is based on an alphabet suggested by Jan Tschichold for “easy and quick to construct le

Fonts in Use
Art GrootfonteinApr 7, 2023

The #DesignersQuotes series features inspiring quotes from renowned designers, aimed at motivating and sparking creativity in the design community.

#JanTschichold #Typography #GraphicDesign #gilwayfont #DesignHistory #fontdesign #fonts
#DesignInspiration