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  • 52 fonts you could use instead of helvetica
  • a guest post
  • admired
  • alan's alphabet
  • bad design decision
  • banging my own drum
  • big picture home pages
  • blast from the past
  • chartered society of designers
  • china connect
  • cold cuts from ko
  • go on, make us smile
  • god's way of telling you that you've got too much money
  • going green
  • graphic design stuff
  • i wish i'd thought of that
  • i've got it taped
  • i've never worked on the ground floor
  • illustrations
  • inappropriate christmas tree decorations
  • just because you can doesn't mean you should
  • letter from america
  • letters i love
  • my pantone past
  • pondering paris
  • stuck for ideas?
  • stuff
  • tales from the long tail
  • that london 2012 thing
  • the drawbacks of being a designer
  • the new ugly
  • the shape of things
  • things i've seen enough of, thank you very much
  • things in life that i completely fail to understand
  • things that make me grumpy
  • this made me cross-eyed
  • this made me smile
  • typography
  • use of images
  • what's in my head
  • where's marcus got to?

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instead of helvetica...

  • from albertus to zapf dingbats
    The 52 fonts that you could use instead of Helvetica.

my pantone past

  • the pantone color specifier
    It's been a colourful career, so far.

top tips for typesetters

  • six golden rules
    The post that first spelt it out: the important things to get right when you start dealing with type.

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