Elliot Jay Stocks — designer & musician

Posts tagged with ‘typography’

  1. 2021

    1. Google Fonts Knowledge

      07 December 2021

      Google Fonts Knowledge — the project I’ve been building with the Google Fonts team over the course of the past year — launched today. GFK is a library of educational content designed to enable designers and developers of all skill levels to choose and use type with purpose.

  2. 2020

    1. Getting things done with TODAY ▼ + SOON ▶

      12 October 2020

      Inspired by Jeff Sheldon’s Analog project and my recent desire to move to-do lists into the physical realm, I designed my own card-based productivity system, ready to print via Moo. Here’s a bit about it.

    2. Behind the scenes of Maido’s rebranding

      07 July 2020

      A detailed look at the process that went into gently evolving the brand of the agency I worked at up until the pandemic. Type nerds, read on.

    3. A redesign at last

      25 June 2020

      Hello and welcome to the new elliotjaystocks.com — which is not just a redesign, but also a full rebuild. In fact, it’s the most substantial re-think of my personal site in about a decade, and the first time the site has had a portfolio section in a good 15 years or so. My plan is to delve into some of the site’s details in further blog posts, but today I’ll attempt a loose-ish overview. Humour an old man, won’t you?

  3. 2017

    1. Advanced Typography in Berlin

      14 June 2017

    2. Advanced Typography for the Web & Print

      21 March 2017

  4. 2014

    1. Advanced web typography: Responsive web typography

      09 April 2014

    2. Advanced web typography: Justification & hyphenation

      09 April 2014

    3. Advanced web typography: Kerning

      08 April 2014

    4. Advanced web typography: A recap on OpenType features

      08 April 2014

  5. 2013

    1. Typographica’s favourite typefaces of 2012

      18 March 2013

  6. 2012

    1. Quatro

      13 December 2012

    2. A conversation with Erik Spiekermann

      20 November 2012

    3. Typecast joins Monotype

      30 October 2012

    4. Tomorrow’s web type today: from Qaegkvwyz to Qaegkvwyz using stylesets

      15 May 2012

    5. Tomorrow’s web type today: Say it With a Swash

      14 May 2012

    6. Tomorrow’s web type today: Expert subsets for css in 123

      12 May 2012

    7. Tomorrow’s web type today: The fine flourish of the ligature

      10 May 2012

  7. 2011

    1. The typography-out approach in the world of browser-based web design

      07 October 2011

    2. Extensis’ Web Font Plug-In

      13 September 2011

    3. Choose your web fonts wisely

      01 September 2011

    4. The relevance of the baseline grid

      24 August 2011

    5. Font-weight in the age of web fonts

      07 July 2011

    6. A preview of Codex: the journal of typography

      27 April 2011

    7. Using web fonts in desktop design apps

      22 March 2011

  8. 2010

    1. MoviePeg alphabet

      09 August 2010

    2. 8 Faces #1 now available to pre-order

      16 July 2010

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