Hamilton Wood Type Mfg. Co. was founded in 1880 and manufactured printer’s type and print shop furniture well in to the latter half of the 20th century. The Hamilton brand has been bought and sold through the years, and is currently owned by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Now operating as a working museum, the collection is now being forced to move from the same building used to manufacture type since 1927. The cost for moving the equipment and collection (the largest collection of wood type in the world at 1.5M pieces!!) is steep. To make matters worse, they’ve been asked to move as soon as February.
If you’re a supporter of type or printing, or if you simply love design, please consider donating to the museum. Every sale, membership, and donation will only help.
More information is available on their website.
Consider simply purchasing a print or shirt, or becoming a member, or just flat-out donating to their cause. This is a part of printing and design history that we cannot let die.
Please reblog, retweet, repost, copy/paste - whatever you have to do. GET THE WORD OUT!
Cyrus Highsmith’s new book Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals is finally ready for purchase. I can’t wait to dig into it! If you need a little more convincing, read Paul Shaw’s review of it on Imprint.
Reed (@reedreeder) has been with H&FJ for a month. He runs a great photo blog with his wife, which he just updated to have responsive images (coming to this site someday…). Go check it out!
He’s also somewhat of a instagram celebrity. Go check him out there (webbygram).
Thank you, Trent (@TrentWalton). This sort of sentiment means a lot to type designers.
The more I work with web fonts, the more I learn about how difficult it is to make great ones. Time spent on letterforms, tracking, kerning pairs, and rendering makes or breaks a font. If quality takes time it also takes money, and I am personally happy to pay a fair price for such an invaluable resource.
Every time we obtain a font without a license, or perhaps even gripe about a fair price, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot. If we want great web fonts, we must support their creation. When web type designers succeed, so do we.
Typeverything.com - Love What You Do.
(Via typetoy)
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Wish I could be there!
Antwerp Part II
I AM SO TIRED OF YOUR EXPERIMENTAL SANS — The title pretty much says it. It’s a tumblr devoted to all those “expiramental” typefaces that seem to blend together after a while.
Seeing a few of them next to each other, you can’t help but see a trend running through these kinds of typefaces; most are monoline, often monospace, with strokes crossing strokes all over the place. Kudos to the curator for including Paul Renner’s original designs for Futura in the mix for context.
- Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
- Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
- Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
- Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
- Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
Outstanding type designer Kris Sowersby (of KLIM) hit us with a double whammy today with the release of his typewriter typeface Pitch and a brand new website designed by Springload.
Make sure to read Pitch’s design notes.
I admit, I bought a Keep Calm and Carry On poster when they started to get popular. Not content to buy from just anywhere (often they get the lettering wrong, replacing it with Gill or even Avenir or Gotham) I bought mine from this charming book store. This video really made me want to go there in person though. So charming! (via @kottke)
I’m glad to have contributed to this collection. I reviewed the great Carter Sans.
Thanks to my smart and talented friends for participating in Typographica’s “Favorite Typefaces of 2011”.
This is a really, really enjoyable site. (via @idsgn and @teehanlax)
So, on Friday I was asked by Brockett Horne and Ellen Lupton—respectively of the undergrad and graduate graphic design departments at MICA—to give a talk to professors and graduate students about how to teach students to design good web typography.
As I was creating the presentation, I realized that I was mentioning a lot of sites, so I created a page that contained all those links. Eventually it struck me that these links might not be only useful to those who attended my talk, but also the general population of the internet.
