If I were any closer to Berlin than I am, I would be making an effort to visit the city just for this. As it is, this is somewhere between a recommendation and a lamentation. Ah well.

"Located in the Design Museum cafe and atrium, the Shape My Language installation combines a display by renowned type designer Bruno Maag, from the typeface and logo design agency Dalton Maag, with images from his work on the Ubuntu font project" I wanted to see this in Vienna, but I got there a week too late. Now it's in London, and I'm not. If you are, you should go. (If necessary, you can sneak in to the shop without paying.) <br />
Closes 28 February.

Spacing rules for Rail Alphabet, discovered recently. Lovely.

"Mr Carter sits near the pinnacle of an elite profession." On type design.

A thoughtful, nicely-illustrated post on the design (in general terms) of ebooks, primarily for the two dominant iPad reader applications. Well worth a read (in particular, I liked the aggregate / heatmap idea; once I was thinking of doing something similar for delicious, and may yet).

Eiichi Kono's account of his work redesigning Johnston for Banks and Miles and London Underground in the late 1970s. Part of the source material for the London Reconnections post.

"London Underground approached various graphic design agencies and consulted on the subject. Many recommended dropping [Johnston] completely in favour of other faces (Helvetica was considered, as was Univers Bold) but ultimately one agency – Banks and Miles – stepped forward and suggested an alternative:- Rework Johnston into a proper, fully extended, typeface." I never realised that LU had even considered this. Thank goodness they went with the redesign.

Richard Rutter on the state of the art in web font specification.

The article title goes on to say "except in one browser", but then that's pretty much broken, if you ask me. It's annoying; this is a CSS 1 property, and it really should be supported.

In full: "The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway from the AIGA Journal of Design". Also touches on Helvetica at Heathrow, and the British Rail identity.

Avoid orphans by dynamically replacing the last space in a sentence with &nbsp; (although I'm wondering if using CSS and white-space: nowrap might not be nicer).

Intriguing idea; a custom keymap that uses caps lock (and then shift + caps lock) as new modifiers to bring typographic characters out of obscurity.

The home for all of TfL's design documents, including the LU signs manual that I love so much, but also newer things like the Overground signs standards.

The (soon to reopen, hopefully) museum has put what looks like its entire poster archive (certainly hundreds of them) online for browsing and purchasing (in A3/A4). Lovely.

A lovely blog full of pictures of lovely (and accidental) design and typography.

No Monaco, no Chicago, no Geneva. I suppose I should get used to the idea that the pixel fonts are dead. Gruber's spot on with the Arial / Courier observations.

Finally, London dates (at the ICA in September). There's also an exhibition at the Design Museum in London, which curiously didn't seem to be mentioned.

"An attempt to improve text rasterization algorithms using only publicly available information" Follows on from the Safari 3 for Windows rendering debate, apparently.

The presentation that inspired the husk.org redesign.

The new husk.org front page (which I still haven't got around to writing about, sigh, but it predates the article) uses a vertical rhythm of 16px. I wish this title didn't used the word "grid" for the concept, though.

Makes fair points, but of course it's no use for web designers (and even then Gill Sans isn't reliable beyond the Mac).

So that's what the Kapitzas ended up doing...