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typography

The (typographic) problem with the spider bite

The black widow spider bite would not kill if you treat it. It might not kill you either if you dont or cant go to the hospital, but you might suffer a lot. However, the authorities recommend going immediately to the nearest hospital if one is bitten by a black widow. There are certain steps that one might follow […]

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typography

The kerning paradigm

Every time I receive a letter from my council all I can see is the kerning paradigm, an example of what kerning should always be: balanced and appropriate space between letters, not mathematical, but adjust by practice, that makes the eye to believe that space is the same.

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typography

Laura Meseguer, are these your types?

Laura Meseguer is an award-winning typeface designer and lettering artist. She has send me this brochure with some of her custom types. It is not just the quality of her work, but the quality and care taken into this postcard, it has been printed in heavy weight Munken Linx paper, and of course, its letterpress. Laura’s website. 

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Books typography

The Chronicles of Reading, part I

* This article was first published in Spanish online magazine Graffica.info, March 12th 2010. This was the first of a series of articles called The Chronicles of Reading [Las Crónicas de Reading], written while  I was studing at the Department of Typography at the University of Reading. When I was asked from Graffica.info write about my studies […]