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Posts tagged with condensed type

Squashed Why go into the trouble of crafting a cool bookshelf if (a) you’re going to set it in Arial, and (b) you’re going to squash the type beyond the bounds of legibility for ‘Has been read’? Condensing type unnaturally is not done in polite society. (Reblogged from Nevver, referencing Designboom.

Squashed Why go into the trouble of crafting a cool bookshelf if (a) you’re going to set it in Arial, and (b) you’re going to squash the type beyond the bounds of legibility for ‘Has been read’? Condensing type unnaturally is not done in polite society. (Reblogged from Nevver, referencing Designboom.

It just got up and walked away From The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks: not only are the quotes unnecessary, but the closing pair are facing the wrong way. The rest of the typography is pretty awful with the false condensing—which makes the lettering look like it is slanting at different angles. In Cooma, NSW, Australia.

It just got up and walked away From The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks: not only are the quotes unnecessary, but the closing pair are facing the wrong way. The rest of the typography is pretty awful with the false condensing—which makes the lettering look like it is slanting at different angles. In Cooma, NSW, Australia.