Just my type

Jesse Simon continues to pay attention to the details of his built environment.

The colours of Berlin: yellow

The colours of Berlin is a new bi-monthly series that will run throughout 2019. Where other posts on this blog have attempted to describe typographic trends and phenomena in Berlin, the entries in this series will focus on a particular colour by presenting a collection of images without additional text. Every city has its full spectrum on display; this is the one that belongs to Berlin.

It's hard not to feel down about the ugly state of my city, when I compare it with those examples of considered design. So here's something quirky to lift my mood.

“Something illegible still has something to say”: Eliott Grunewald on his type designs

“I’ve been more interested in display typefaces, for their expressiveness and ‘voices’; like type as an image more than the design of a text typeface,” he tells It’s Nice That. “So I guess, sometimes, it does result in letterings which are formally too intense or even illegible. But something illegible still has something to say, to show or to promote, I don’t feel that even if you cannot read the word, you cannot get anything from it.”

 And, for a full account of what goes into good typeface design, take a look at this.

Why San Francisco

We got our first glimpse of Apple’s new sans-serif typeface, San Francisco, when the Apple Watch was unveiled in September of 2014—a new typeface designed specifically for legibility at small sizes on a tiny, high-resolution screen. Big news for type nerds and Apple fans alike.

It's very thorough, and I don't pretend to understand half of it, but it's nice to see someone paying such close attention to the details.