If typography is writing with preformed and reusable letters (or, to put it more conceptually, with the instructions for making those letters) that can be combined and recombined into arbitrary t...
You could enjoy and appreciate Tal Leming’s 90 Minutes without ever seeing it. You’d just need to read his account of the project, told with detail and passion. It’s an object lesson in sol...
Last week I went to a reading at the local poetry club for homeless people in Amsterdam. Although the quality of the presentations, essays, and poems varied a lot, every single story was authenti...
Balto is designer Tal Leming’s reinterpretation of an American Gothic, a style of sans serif made popular by Morris Fuller Benton and the American Type Foundry. Just as Benton set out, with h...
Tal Leming has built a career on his ability to deftly turn both the geometric (United, Bullet, and Mission + Control, for example) and the lettered (Burbank, Baxter, and Shag Lounge) into well-b...
Ken Barber is an incredibly talented letterer. And Tal Leming is an incredibly talented font technology whiz (and a good type designer as well). House Industries’ Studio Lettering series unifie...
Even the Small Italics look perfectly natural, and the automatically-inserted alternates subtly maintain the illusion that type set in Burbank Big is real lettering, not just a typographic facsim...
This impressive comprehensive system of Deutsche Bahn fonts were made for the German national rail system (Deutsche Bahn AG) and you can’t buy it. The Garamond-inspired serif and sans family al...