iPad
08.23.11
posted by Reed Reibstein
The language of magazine design is type. Publication designers have to know a loop from an ear, a ligature from a swash, and
Erik van Blokland from
Mark
van Bronkhorst. Aside from being a spectacular device for news apps (as
Mike Burgess, Joe Zeff, Jochem Wijnands, and Michel Elings described at last
month's
"Indie App Night"), the iPad
boasts a number of truly useful tools for letterform education and
inspiration. Here's a typographic twist on our ongoing series of essential iPad apps.
Above: Comparing typefaces in FontBook
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