Feature: Typography
A Monotype timeline
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the design of The Times. He was invited to submit ideas, and this led to a redesign of the paper in 1932, for which he developed Times New Roman. Here he recounts the process.
Beatrice Warde: Manners and type
Sara De Bondt introduces a transcript of a rediscovered 1959 interview with Warde.
Robin Nicholas
‘I don’t see myself as a typeface designer. Hermann Zapf is a typeface designer. What I have done is to develop typefaces: pulling component parts of various typefaces that seem to work well and amalgamate those into a new design.’
Machine and man
Art, science and hot metal casting.
Photo essay by Phil Sayer
They work with words: 3
As an exercise in cross-Channel translation, OK-RM has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 2
Modern Toss has devised a typographic spread about the perils and pleasures of punctuation – exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 1
Fraser Muggeridge has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
Street life
Bremen’s street magazine Die Zeitschrift der Strasse is a social project that benefits its student publishers as much as its homeless vendors. By Nick Kapica
Free for all
In designing the Ubuntu type family, Dalton Maag had to produce faces for print and screen in thirteen styles and numerous non-Latin languages – all under scrutiny from an online audience of millions. By John Ridpath