Haäfe & Haph’s selection of custom ampersands are available here.

Most free fonts are for headlines, and frankly aren’t to my taste. The League of Moveable Type is trying to remedy that. At their website, they say “you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source.” Go here to decide for yourself. Below is an example: Goudy Bookletter 1911

Mindy Belloff of Intima Press in New York City has produced an re-creation of the 1777 Goddard Declaration of Independence with the techniques of its day: set one letter at a time, printed letterpress on period-style paper. (Mary Katherine Goddard — 1738 – 1816 — was an early American publisher and the first American postmistress. She was also the first to print the Declaration of Independence with the names of the signatories.) There’s a interview with Belloff about printing the recreation and setting the type on Felt & Wired.

Mary Huang’s computer applicaiton Typeface is a “typographic photobooth”, custom software that generates type design from facial dimensions. It uses a camera as an input device, scanning the user’s face and translating the image into a typeface. There are 2 videos showing how the program works here.

The button to the right comes from a website that says

We support the printed word in all its forms: newspapers, magazines, and of course books. We think reading on computers or phones or whatever is fine, but it cannot replace the experience of reading words printed on paper. We pledge to continue reading the printed word in the digital era and beyond.

After I wrote about the sideway poetry project in St Paul, Bonnie Baker wrote “you may be interested in the concrete poetry in bpnichol Lane, a lane in Toronto, Ontario which is named for Canadian poet, bpnichol (1944 - 1988). bpnichol, one of the 4-Horsemen (a Canadian sound poetry performance group), was also a world reknowned ‘pataphysicist and Toronto small press promoter.” There are images, including the one below, here. You can hear the 4-Horsemen read several of their poems here. Anyone else know of cities with poetry in the sidewalks?