Pretty words

Gerry sent us a list of books and articles to read during the summer. Fortunately, my friend Claudio has all the Eye articles I need, and Julia is chasing the Visible Language ones as well, so I guess I’m all set.

I need to get hold of Rosemary Sassoon’s Computers and typography two books then I’m done. The IELTS results haven’t been mailed neither to me nor to Reading, so I phoned them yesterday and asked what’s up. Hopefully that will get sorted next week.

I’ve been a bit slacking off with my typefaces in the past two weeks (fixed a bit Rest’s numbers and been mulling over a sans version, but that’s about it) because work has been getting in the way, bigtime. I did manage to sneak in some type and lettering work, though:

Lekton

I drew several glyphs for Lekton, which is a free typeface: you can download and use it in any way you want, but don’t try to re-sell it. It was drawn mainly by Luciano Perondi and his students in Urbino, but me and Marco contributed some glyphs to the original .vfb file. This is the § glyph I drew for Lekton:

Italic 2.0

I co-wrote two articles on Italian typographic history and two sections on typography and programming for the book Italic 2.0, which will come out in Italian, English (and Russian, I’m told!) in October, that has kept me quite busy. Nothing to show yet, sorry.

Scrive

I drew this piece of lettering for Scrive, an Italian web site/service ran by a friend of mine, Claudio Cicali:

We decided the top version without the iv politype was more readable, so it went online.

BlogBabel

Another friend of mine, Ludovico Magnocavallo, is running BlogBabel, an aggregator for italian weblogs, so I helped him with the logotype. It is set in a new typeface I have been drawing in spring, codenamed Berto, which has a full range of weights already and has a ginormous x-height in order to facilitate MixedCase settings.

And that’s pretty much it!

The title of this posts refers to a song Julia sent me called Pretty Words by a band called Tindersticks.