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Meet Our Newest Font Partner: Webtype
Great news. We’re thrilled to announce that we have a new friend – and it’s one who’s generous with their goodies. The wonderful Webtype, purveyor of tantalizing typefaces like Benton Sans, Interstate...
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Typecast Makes the Top 20 of 2012
Everyone likes a little recognition for a job well done, so we were pretty pleased this afternoon to hear that we’ve been named in .Net Magazine’s 20 Best New Web Design and Development Tools of 2012....
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Happy Launch Day To Us!
Yes! We’ve finally done it. After 1½ years in private and public betas, we’re casting our floaties aside and leaving the kiddie pool to join those cool, big kids splashing in the deep end. We’re...
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Vote Typecast for ‘Game Changer of the Year’
New to Typecast? See what makes us awesome. We’re stoked to be nominated for TWO awards in this year’s .Net Awards. And what great categories to be in. Our Director Paul McKeever is up for New...
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Designing for a Responsive Web Means Starting with Type First
The pervasiveness of mobile devices today means audiences want to consume content on whichever browser or device they prefer. As a result, web designers and publishers have rallied behind the idea of...
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Ditching the Shoehorn: Designing Type That Works on ePubs, Mobi and the Web
Sub-compact publishing is a complete re-evaluation of the tools and outputs of publishing for a digital world. Defined in a fantastic (and beautifully designed) essay by Craig Mod, it questions the...
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Great New Typefaces for Tiny Type from Fonts.com
Another big win for a more readable web! Monotype has just released nine new typeface families on Fonts.com. Adapted from pre-existing designs, each has been painstakingly modified to perform better...
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Type Q&A: Steve Matteson from Monotype
Type lovers know that all web fonts are not created equal. But more interestingly, being available on the web doesn’t necessarily mean they were made for the web, does it? That’s right. Many of the...
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Typecast Takes Manhattan at New York’s Pencil to Pixel
We’re surrounded by type from dawn till dusk, but it’s not often that you get the chance to see the history of the typefaces that shape our environment. Only a handful of people can say they’ve been...
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Narrowing the Field: How To Bring Great Type Into Focus
In John Carpenter’s 1988 science-fiction-weirdo-horror flick They Live, Nada—a drifter played by the inimitable “Rowdy” Roddy Piper—finds an unassuming box of sunglasses in an abandoned church. But...
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British Vogue Gets Top Marks for UX & Branding
It’s funny. When it comes to design, typography and layout, often we look to the world of print and traditional publishers for examples of ‘getting it right’. After all, for many of the challenges we...
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Show & Tell: A Practical Look at Choosing Type
In my last post I laid out my process for choosing type. Today, let’s look at how that approach plays out using a little logotype project I did at FreeAgent last year called Earnest. Getting a handle...
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Pumping Up Prototypes With Floats, Borders & More
Take control of element spacing, inside and out Now you can set width on individual elements – picking from px, % and em (yes em!) units of measure. It’s a small but important change that we think will...
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Typecast Wins Game Changer of the Year!
Last Friday morning, our captains Jamie and Paul flew over to London’s .Net Awards fully expecting to spend a great afternoon celebrating some of the best people and tools contributing to world of web...
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Type Q&A: Gareth Hague from Alias
What does branding mean today? Branding has to demonstrate that it adds value and doesn’t disguise failings or present a message that isn’t supported by experience. It also seemingly has to be liked by...
View ArticleHow Cross-Platform Typography Defines Your Brand
In this presentation from Brand Perfect‘s session at Pencil to Pixel in May, our Director Paul McKeever talks about how content creation and content consumption online has changed. He also shows how a...
View ArticleEdenspiekermann Talks Type, Branding & RWD
Confession time. We have a bit of a crush on Edenspiekermann. They’re one of our industry’s most forward-thinking digital agencies: They have a stellar pedigree in brand work, gave up the waterfall...
View ArticleA Prototype Is Worth 1,000 Meetings
In June, our creative director Jamie was invited to speak at the Type Directors Club in NYC. In this 30 minute talk, he explains how and why type prototypes allow web designers to experiment more,...
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Design Q&A: Ted Irvine of The Verge, Polygon & SB Nation
First off, congrats on your recent World’s Best recognition from the Society of News Design. I noticed that the judges specifically complimented your use of web type on the SB Nation site. When in the...
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Brewing a Better Workflow
On the last few responsive websites we’ve worked on at mStoner, we’ve encouraged decision-making about typography at different points in different projects. This hasn’t been a failing of process, but...
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5 Faces for UI Design
Here I’ve pulled together five useful typefaces for user interface design, which I’ve mocked up in a simple screen for an imaginary smartphone application that I’ve called Righter. For something like...
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Superhero Superfamilies
With the heap of fonts available on the web and the overwhelming amount of choice at our fingertips, it’s easy to forget that, sometimes, one font family is all we need. After all, using a single,...
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New Arrivals: CSS Columns, Quick Inserts & Reordering
A while back we introduced floats, clears, borders, and shadows, to give you more control over your compositions and help you create more realistic designs. Today the trend continues with another boost...
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Talking About Building (Plus Free Prizes)
At Build 2012 we ambushed these fine folks to talk shop about type, web design, and better ways of working. We were lucky enough to corner Jeff Veen and Ethan Marcotte, who spoke at the event, as well...
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Test Drive Typecast for Free When You Use Google Fonts
Yes, that’s free as in free. No account necessary. Just select a typeface on Google Fonts, click Try it in Typecast, and in two seconds you’ll be designing with it on text of any length right there in...
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Test Type On Devices With Mobile Previews
Exciting news type lovers! You can now view all of your Typecast projects on your mobile. This means that you can quickly: show your designs to others while out and about talking shop; and test the...
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Design With MyFonts’ Rising Stars in Typecast
Somebody pinch us! We’ve been dreaming about this since way back in beta – the day we’d be able to design with the MyFonts collection in Typecast. And it’s finally here! 80,000 MyFonts web fonts to...
View Article“Make It Like the PSD”
“Make it like the PSD.” It’s something that I’ve heard often in front-end development, and it raises my hackles every time. While the design process probably involved wireframes, sitemaps, user stories...
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10 Display Faces for Under $50
Leitura Display Try Leitura Display Swashes and Roman Designed specifically for editorial use, Leitura Display makes a bold headline, perfect for a newspaper-like design. A transitional typeface...
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Tailor-Made Type for Web Design
Try Didot eText Regular and Bold. Text adapted from Daniel Will-Harris Monotype recently released the second collection in their eText series of typefaces – fonts new and old drawn specifically for...
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A More Modern Scale for Web Typography
I’m a big believer in responsive web design. It’s the only way I know to provide the best experience across the increasingly fragmented landscape of devices and capabilities that is the new normal on...
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Inside the TechCrunch Redesign with Dan Mall
Since the Tech Design relaunch went live, many have likened it to The Verge. How inspired were you by that site? I take inspiration from everywhere, but The Verge is an easy one to reference for a...
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Best New Web Fonts of 2013
Try Pétala Semi Light & Italic. Pétala Pro is an extremely flexible typeface with a hefty 18 weights and styles, so it’s capable of handling pretty much any typographic challenge you throw at it....
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10 Foundries We Heart
Jake Giltsoff Five fab foundries that Jake thoroughly fancies Suitcase Type Foundry Try Tabac G1 Medium, Dederon Medium Italic and Nudista Semibold for yourself Suitcase Type Foundry was founded just...
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The Voices of Type
If you’re excited about using type, I would bet that a large part of your excitement comes from the voice of type. By ‘voice’ I mean the feeling found in within it — the personality and attitude we...
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7 Servings of Type for a Healthy Head & Body
URW Antique Olive Try URW Antique Olive for yourself now Despite its yummy olivey-round shapes, Antique Olive was actually named for its French foundry (Fonderie Olive) and not the fruit. Designed in...
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A New Typeface Designed for Split-Second Legibility
Introducing Burlingame A few years ago, Monotype’s type designer Carl Crossgrove began work on a new typeface as part of a proposal for a major gaming platform. When the client went with another...
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Readable, Fluid Type With Basic CSS Smarts
Keeping your type at comfortably readable line lengths can be quite a challenge with responsive design. When viewports can be nearly any size under the sun, it can feel like we’re going to need a whole...
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Designing for Moments With Media Queries
Consuming content on the web is like entering the fog of war we see in video games—that enforced lack of situational awareness that encourages the player to move into unmapped areas of the screen to...
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Dan Mall On Rapid Ideation
How do you manage client expectations with this new process and convince them that they don’t need to see multiple versions of homepages? It’s a shift not just in process, but in mindset all around....
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Masculine Scripts
Line Try Line for yourself now Taking inspiration from the graffiti on the streets of New York, Line is an impactful monoline script. I particularly enjoy the intriguing contrast between its sharp...
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Brighter Lighter Blackletters
Blackletter was the first style of type to be printed from movable metal type back in the 15th century but fell out of favor with the arrival of the more legible Roman type. Fast forward to now, and it...
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Clean, Lean Serifs for Science & Tech
Turnip Thanks to its chunky serifs, Turnip has a strength and density that makes it feel authoritative—but in a cool substitute teacher kind of way. Those squared counters give it a geometric flavor...
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Improving Online Ads with HTML
Let’s face it. Ads on the web need some love. While web fonts and responsive design have created more readable, seamless experiences for visitors, and many of us have improved workflow through closer...
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Jordan Moore on Mobile-First Type & Layout
All RWD seems to be about handling different widths, but are there any strategies to ensure that your website is also responsive between different heights (for example when you want to make sure...
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Win a Copy of ‘On Web Typography’
Punctuation is a system. That’s why proper quotation marks and apostrophes look like they’re part of the same family as commas, periods, colons, semicolons, and more, whereas straight quotes don’t....
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12 Italics That Whisper and Wail
A lot of what we do as designers is about guiding people to information in order of priority. Colour, size and spacing can all be used to emphasize content. But if we look at using a type-first...
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10 Fonts for Code
These days, monospaced typefaces are synonymous with code, but it wasn’t always so. Western monospaced typefaces were initially designed to be used on typewriters where the technical limitations...
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Mark Boulton on HTML Ads
Do you think the creation of HMTL ads can ever be a truly cost- and time-effective process? This question was certainly at the front of our minds when we were working on our example ads. One of the...
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Typecast Becomes a Free Web Design Tool
Starting today, Typecast™ is a free web design tool. We always wanted our app to help make the web a more beautiful place, and the best way to do that is to open it up to everyone—everyone who cares...
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