Typography is more than just font design.
It affects informational readability — and at times, credibility. It’s contributed terms to our language. And sometimes, there are stories of intrigue hidden in its past.
Linguist Daniel Midgley is the font of all knowledge on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Show notes
Alex Poole: Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?
https://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/
12 words you need to ban from your vocabulary to be a better ally
https://mashable.com/2015/06/04/ally-vocabulary-banned-words/
UMD Study Concludes Parents Mixing Languages has No Impact on Children’s Language Development
https://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/umd-study-concludes-parents-mixing-languages-has-no-impact-childrens-language-development
Hermann Zapf: “Typography is two-dimensional architecture…”
https://sharonmcteir.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/quotation-by-hermann-zapf/
Video: “The Art of Hermann Zapf”, made for Hallmark Cards circa 1967.
Typography Quotations
https://desktoppub.about.com/od/typography/a/Typography_Quotations.htm
Daniel’s Page of Fontery
https://www.goodreasonblog.com/p/fontery.html
Straight Dope: What’s the origin of the expression “mind your P’s and Q’s”?
https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/761/whats-the-origin-of-the-expression-mind-your-ps-and-qs
What is the origin of the terms “upper case” and “lower case” for capital and small letters?
https://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question84960.html
Wikipedia: Letter case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case
What’s The Difference Between A Font And A Typeface?
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3028971/whats-the-difference-between-a-font-and-a-typeface
10 typography terms that every designer needs to know
https://www.creativebloq.com/typography/terms-designer-needs-know-111112
The fight over the Doves
https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21591793-legendary-typeface-gets-second-life-fight-over-doves
Lost typeface printing blocks found in river Thames
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31188255?SThisFB
The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery
https://gizmodo.com/the-gorgeous-typeface-that-drove-men-mad-and-sparked-a-1686081182
The Doves Type™ revival
https://www.typespec.co.uk/doves-type-revival/
Doves Type specimen sheet (PDF)
https://typespec.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Doves-Type-specimen-2015-v22.pdf
How Typefaces Influence Perception and Persuasion
https://www.mdgadvertising.com/blog/how-typefaces-influence-perception-and-persuasion/
Errol Morris: How Typography Shapes Our Perception Of Truth
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3046365/errol-morris-how-typography-shapes-our-perception-of-truth
Are Some Fonts More Believable Than Others?
https://www.fastcodesign.com/1670556/are-some-fonts-more-believable-than-others
Errol Morris: Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (Part 1)
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-people-hearken-o-earth/?_r=1
How typeface influences the way we read and think
https://theweek.com/articles/463196/how-typeface-influences-way-read-think
When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/13/when-typography-speaks-louder-than-words/
5 Psychology Studies That Tell Us How People Perceive Visual Information
https://piktochart.com/5-psychology-studies-that-tell-us-how-people-perceive-visual-information/
CERN scientists inexplicably present Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans
https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson
Yuccie: The hipster is dead, and you might not like who comes next
https://mashable.com/2015/06/09/post-hipster-yuccie/
Wikipedia: Autological words are words whose form have something to do with what the word means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word
Merriam-Webster: boustrophedon
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boustrophedon
howjsay: boustrophedon
https://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=boustrophedon
A.Word.A.Day
https://www.wordsmith.org/words/boustrophedon.html
How to Pronounce Boustrophedon (wrongly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvaK1tYc3OU@talkrtr@benainslie@RTRFM
Here’s a disturbing “typeface based on the grasping limbs of submarine creatures”: https://t.co/mPsY4RUOXd
— Darin Flynn (@darin_flynn) June 15, 2015
Image credit: https://vimeo.com/5385464
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