The last five months have been pretty intense. Creating a 164-page magazine from scratch is an enormous project and, looking back, I’m happy that I was naïve enough to think it could be done. Along with Carolyn Wood and Working Format we think we’ve created something very special indeed.

I’d also like to thank MailChimp for their generous support. Now that the first issue of Codex magazine is on its way to the printer, I can take a breather (a few days until work resumes on issue #2), and list here some of the type-related things that have been catching my eye. Yes, it has been a while, but here is the week — perhaps the month — in type.

I already have too many pictures and posters, but couldn’t resist buying this one (the one on the right):

Available from atipo in Spain. And I almost forgot to mention that I’ve convinced atipo to give one away to an ILT reader. Just tell us why you want or need the poster and we’ll select a lucky winner. I will announce the winner on Monday via twitter.

FixText, a very clever jQuery plugin for resizing web type on the fly:

Nice use of Font Bureau’s Giza and Griffith Gothic in Pentagram’s work for the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Hard to beat fat Egyptian numerals when they’re displayed at these sizes:

Great to see Nadine Chahine’s custom type (Gebran2005) in the redesign of An-Nahar, Lebanon’s leading daily newspaper (left: before; right: after):

Awesome post, can’t wait to get my copy of the Codex – any idea how long it’ll take to arrive to consumers once it’s away from the printers??

I’d absolutely love one of those posters, I’ve been looking for something to put in the studio above my desk because everything is looking a little bare and I’ve been looking at that fontface stuff so much it’s not even funny.

Can’t wait for Codex. Pre-ordered when I got the announcement email. Post better not bend it or there’ll be hell to pay!

I’d love one of those posters! I could put it in my dank, musty garage so I’d have something pretty to look at while dying from lead poisoning (funnily enough, to be acquired while cleaning off 30+ trays of somewhat oxidized Caslon and (Craw) Clarendon…among others).

I put in a pre-order for Codex the day they opened up and forwarded the ordering link to the design department head at my school. He never forwarded it on to everyone, though.

And I’d love one of those posters, but I’m a poor student who can never afford these beautiful pieces of work that become relics of my formative years as a designer. That’s the reason I ordered Codex, because rarely do we get a chance to get in on the ground floor of something that will become an icon of its era in the design world.

Those posters are exquisite. I have a huge space on my wall that is just BEGGING to be filled up by one of those posters. It’ll go nice with the black chair right next to the space. I love the roundups you put together here. Definitely going to look into FitText for my next multi platform web project.

I can’t wait for my copy of Codex to arrive! I wish it would hurry up so I could have it in my hot little hands sooner, and I am very glad that you decided to take on the massive task.

Also I NEED one of those posters! I face fonts every day, sometimes they’re a little too much to face, but if I had a font face poster on my wall then that would certainly be a font I’d be happy to face.

Something for your next article (and for all the wonderful commenters to read with glee in the meantime): Adobe’s CSS Regions proposal is getting a bit closer to an implementable reality. The idea is being able to flow text in custom defined regions, rather than just blocks… so you can have much more print-like control over the flow relative to imagery, etc. Very neat.

Since beginning to get more and more into graphic/web design about 3 years ago, I’ve taken a whole new love to typography. I have always had a mindful eye for great UI/UX and interfaces in general, but fonts are now more of a focus in my life. I pre-ordered Codex and even ordered an extra copy for a graphic designer who’s helping me with some personal logo work gratis.

I’d really enjoy having one of the fontface posters from atipo to display in my office at work. I’m one of the few people in my department that truly appreciates great design and I’m hoping the poster will help spark more discussion with others and help to promote better focus on design and typography in our organization.

Thanks for the chance and for the great resources you share and maintain. Can’t wait to open up Codex Issue 1.

what a mind-bogglingly interesting array of snippets, videos, images you have on here… i have a lot of catching up to do! i would love to have one of those posters to inspire me with some “in-your-face” script/art as i work on my dissertation (on 17th-century handwriting copybooks). i think the ampersand is my favourite, and it’d look lovely next to my copy of ian kahn’s specially-commissioned “ampersand” broadside, which i laid my grubby paws on a couple of months ago! although the semi-colon/emoticon is also quite haunting, a la heath ledger’s joker, in a way. thank you for this giveaway opportunity, and for the excellent reading material generally!

And I’d love to have the atipo poster, of course. I believe that with it I can finally make my friends realize that letters are beautiful. (or at least, that girls with letters on their faces are… hahah)

Not sure if I’m too late, but… I’d love to win that poster because as a publishing & book design grad student, I need proof to my friends that typography IS cool and can be done in interesting, new and worthwhile ways. Thanks!
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Hi. Firth, sorry for putting this question up here. I am not a graphic designer but i have a old friend that used to make hand-painted-signs.

He is kind the sick now and i would like to make a gift to him.
I wonder, if is possible, to commission a typeset on his name. In other words what do i need to do? I think i still have a photo of him or one of his signs. Anyway, that about it. thanks.