Heller on Digital Type

Steven Heller has a short piece in yesterday’s NYTimes (no, I don’t read it much — why do you ask?) on digital typography coming of age, complete with slide show.

While the experimentation of the 90’s has evolved into a serious applied art form and business, digital type design retains much of its early creativity. Here are seven of the most popular fonts issued over the last 10 years by whiz kids turned pros.

Frankly, I’m surprised House isn’t better represented; they’re probably my favorite… well, house right now. (Sorry.) Any others our distinguished readers feel should have been mentioned?

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Posted by Giles, Monday, August 30, 2004, at 7:16 PM.
Posted to Type and typography

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