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July 28, 2021John Boardley Among my favorite kinds of typefaces are those that don’t fit neatly into predefined or existing categories; those that dip their toes into more than one genre, or take their cues from disparate historical periods. These twilight zone hybrids aren’t always easy to pull off. Today, I’m featuring an in-between typeface ..

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In episode one the new Ask ILT series, I answered, What’s the difference between Grotesque and Neo-Grotesque? In episode two we ask, Why do fashion brands and magazines use so much Bodoni & Didot? Collectively these typefaces are known as Didones, a mashup of Didot and Bodoni, the type designing early proponents of the style. ..

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May 31, 2021John Boardley About 2,300 years ago in Greece, Aristotle devised a system for classifying everything in the world. His three kingdoms of nature, Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable remained in use for the best part of 2000 years. In the eighteenth century, a much expanded version of it, the Linnaean Taxonomy, brainchild of Swedish ..

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