That recent Helvetica Neue Super Ultra Light+Tight trend. HNSULT.
As in, “this is an hnsult to my eyes!”

PS. If you use modular scales don’t forget to trust your eye. Numbers don’t guarantee harmony & don’t always give the right answers #keming

I suspect my idea of good graphic design has a lot in common with Italian cuisine: Few ingredients, carefully picked and of high quality.

New/Beta: Stringmaker: A simple online tool to generate spacing/kerning test strings. http://t.co/g9LaKTE Discussion: http://t.co/KNo1kD4

It's plugin season eh? FontShop does font previews for PhotoShop, now Monotype for InDesign. http://t.co/t8exCX5D | http://t.co/ERDsJSgF

Read a fascinating then sickening story from the intersection of science, art, politics & ethics over at http://www.codex99.com /by @codex99

YES! Endbahnhof: Photos of the lettering at every Berlin U-Bahn station  http://endbahnhof.tumblr.com/  (click on the categories / subway lines)

Listen to the man. “If your text looks like a list, that is too much line-height.” @markodugonjic #keming pic.twitter.com/oILWMDRTKg

JUST LAUNCHED: Monokrom Type Foundry, fine handcrafted types from Norway. Five beautiful typefaces available now:  https://monokrom.no/ 

Interesting exercise: simplified/low-res logos  http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/logo_reductions_for_screen_use.php … (v @typefacts); cf. this old @typophile thread  http://typophile.com/node/61096 

Very nice. RT @opentype: Firefox plugin to check which webfonts are used on a page: http://1.opentype.info/dD0aJ0

Finally saw @wilsonminer’s brilliant #buildconf’11 talk everyone was still talking about this year. Wow. When We Build:  http://vimeo.com/34017777 

“I work a lot. When you sleep, I work. When you get up, I work. When you party, I work. When you eat, I work. And eat.” Henrik Kubel #typo13

#Free #font release! Sélavy, a Duchamp-based dotted font designed for @soulellis (with source UFO to roll your own):  http://ninastoessinger.com/projects/selavy/ …

Official UI design fail. Unofficial citizen action. (“please press really hard, until the light goes on!”) pic.twitter.com/rygbOFSi3n

Honestly I think people can only think of good fonts as overpriced before they grok what incredible shitload of work it takes to make them.

Looks like this tulip field is being defragmented. (via @pixelsinthewild) pic.twitter.com/8OLDXIWO5U

Also, don’t compare price of fonts with entertainment items. They’re professional tools – and form part of the designs you think of as yours

This is why lettering rocks. Great mid-century German work by Karlheinz Dobsky: http://t.co/TP60HHug at @myfontsde

Really really redundant interface design of the day: pic.twitter.com/lJ3FTdL9Xe