December 22, 2012 – 12:00 AM
I guess I’ll need to make those New Year’s Eve plans after all. Joining us in this moment of disbelief is some grawlix, set in Richard Lipton’s Miller Banner, a large optical size (one up from Display) of Miller.
December 21, 2012 – 9:00 AM
So here we are. The end of the Mayan calendar. Been nice knowing you. Left standing today is a, set in Hendrik Weber’s Edward, a rationalized, and geometrized humanist face based on the lettering Edward Johnston did for the London Underground, and the base from which Eric Gill worked when fitting the alphabet to a type system for British Monotype.
December 20, 2012 – 9:00 AM
If my reading of the Mayan Calendar is correct, (I actually don’t read Mayan by the way) we’re quickly approaching a hard stop. How will you spend your remaining day(s)? Making the most of today is B, set in David Berlow’s Titling Gothic Skyline Black. Skylines are faces that are generally extra-extra-compressed, causing their general contour to match that of a city full of tall buildings. The name of this particular font perhaps makes more sense seeing it in context of the rest of the Titling Gothic Skyline range, which is only a small subset of the extensive Titling Gothic family.
December 19, 2012 – 11:00 AM
End of the world here in about 48 hours. Making the most of today is C, set in Ramiro Espinoza’s Dulcinea, an original script face made for ornate display work.
December 18, 2012 – 10:54 AM
Wasn’t there something about the earth coming into alignment with the plume of gas and dust created by the supermassive black hole that’s likely at the center of the Milky Way galaxy? No, that’s actually very unlikely. Though the world is set to end on Friday, I believe it is. Marking today off is D, set in Jim Parkinson’s Hotel, an inline sans reminiscent of old still-hanging city signage in San Francisco, and the surrounding neighborhood.
December 17, 2012 – 8:29 AM
Our preparations for the end of the world ramp up today as we note how little time we have left. While getting our “So longs” in, we pause a moment with E, set in Michael Hochleitner’s Henriette, a type family inspired by the lettering on street signs of 1920s Vienna.
December 16, 2012 – 5:49 PM
We’ve nearly run out of days. Reminding us how few days we have left is F, set in Edwin W. Shaar’s Futura Script, a monolinear commercial script likely named after Futura so it would sell.
December 15, 2012 – 9:37 AM
It won’t be long now. Today’s letter is G, set in Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura’s JAF Domus Titling, a softened sans with Imperial Rome’s inscriptional letter proportions.
December 14, 2012 – 11:17 AM
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December 13, 2012 – 10:05 PM
End of the world, etc.. Marking today is I, set in Hans Samuelson’s Lucy Samuels, a monolinear, stroke-based face for display work.
December 12, 2012 – 12:13 PM
Twelve days ’til Christmas or something like that today—wait—nope. Only 10 days left. Standing atop our twelve-shaped monument of a day is J, set in Andreas Seidel’s Vtg Stencil No. 4. I could be wrong, but it seems like I saw the source for this design all over Spain when I visited back in October. Every lamp post and piece of public property bore a trace of it.
December 11, 2012 – 4:39 PM
Head for the hills. It’s more doom and gloom in the forecast, I’m afraid, as we’ve only completed the first half of our countdown to the end. Pausing to remember today is k, set in Laure Afchain’s Malaussène Translation Display, the assertive, topheavy display variant of Malaussène Translation.
December 10, 2012 – 5:16 PM
Droughts, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes. With a mere score of days left ahead of us, those Maya will resort to whatever it takes to keep on schedule, so take care world. Meanwhile, l from Falstaff, an original display fat face from the Monotype drawing office closes out another day.
December 9, 2012 – 3:39 PM
We’re getting down to the last full week of life as we know it. Passing today is M, set in Ramiro Espinoza’s Krul. Krul draws from sign painter Jan Willem Joseph Visser’s curly letter style, developed in Amsterdam in the late 1940s.
December 8, 2012 – 9:00 AM
It’s the end of the world, almost. Making the most of today is lowercase n from Nicole Dotin’s Elena, a masterfully drawn, and as I’ve said elsewhere, immensely readable text face.
