“A collection of David Berlow’s prolific typographic work as co-founder of Font Bureau is showcased in this impressive booklet, a celebration of him receiving the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) Typography Award in 2007. Specimen pages show styles of each family for easy comparison of weight, width, copyfit and aesthetic.”

From Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?

Filed under: Design, Fonts, type, Typography

7 Responses to “David Berlow Type Specimens”

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   Chris Hester said on 26 February 2010 at 9:57 am:

   That cover rocks! (Alas the transparency of the D isn’t showing in my PDF reader, Foxit.) Great selection of typefaces and examples to lust over!

   Now you’ve probably heard this before but I’m not seeing the first letters of your posts here correctly. They are the same size as the copy and placed halfway between the first and second lines, which looks most odd. (Although the individual post here, along with the newest post at the top, look fine, with a big red letter.) It might be the different font, or the all-caps setting you’re using. Or it might be that I use Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP on a PC. :-)

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   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 26 February 2010 at 11:18 am:

   Chris, thanks for the tip. This is the first I’ve heard of it.

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   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 26 February 2010 at 11:25 am:

   Chris, should be fixed now. Had nothing to do with Windows XP. An unclosed </small> in a post here imported from Posterous was wreaking havoc in previous posts on the home page in Firefox.

   (Firefox is touchier about errors than Safari and Chrome, and I was browsing in Webkit, so didn’t have visual confirmation that something was amiss in my markup.)

   THANK YOU.

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   Chris Hester said on 26 February 2010 at 12:04 pm:

   Thanks for the prompt reply! Indeed it is fixed! I thought you had a new style going there with all those capitalized words.

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   Chris Hester said on 28 February 2010 at 4:00 pm:

   Layout is borked again. The text is going 100 per cent left to right without respect for padding or columns.

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   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 28 February 2010 at 4:29 pm:

   Layout is borked again. The text is going 100 per cent left to right without respect for padding or columns.

   This time it was an unclosed <p> from a post imported from Posterous.

   Posterous imports are invalid and nonsemantic; when I use Posterous to post a quick link, I immediately edit by hand afterwards. Apparently I missed a spot. Feh.

   Thanks for caring.

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   Chris Hester said on 1 March 2010 at 3:03 pm:

   Thanks for putting up with my comments! This is interesting – how a missing end tag or invalid HTML can cause chaos with a layout. Is the web really so fragile? What can we do about it? (I’m the same btw – I edit everything by hand, so sometimes a copy and paste leaves odd things where they shouldn’t be.) Ideally I guess we should all be processing our code before it goes live, to check for errors. Or remembering to validate, which I forget to do I admit. Anyway, a good job you’re not writing strict XHTML in XML, or I’d have seen a yellow screen of death! (And no content!)

   All the best

   Chris

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