Type for the Twin Cities
Looks like the Twin Cities is one step closer to a new type face. The TypeCon site is featuring a new type by the fine folks at LettError. The type will be called Twin and it will be up to the folks of the Twin Cites to make the type learn. Ambitious. I can’t wait to peep it at TypeCon 2003.

Employing OpenType, and based on custom software entitled the “Panchromatic Hybrid Style Alternator,” LettError’s Twin font offers an infinitely varied typographic menu. And, in a remarkable first, a “live and reactive” version can be linked via the Internet to dynamic data, so that urban conditions in the Twin Cities can visibly affect the font’s appearance.

Another type innovation that will soon be unleashed on the OSX crowd is Font Book by Apple. From the screenshots it look like the interface will be a vast improvement over the painful verticle display in Font Reserve. Hopefully it will be the last time I need to spend time reorganizing, relearning and upgrading my font organization habits and techniques. A cool aspect of Font Book will be it’s Character Pallet which allows users to “preview a character rendered in every active font”. Sweet.

Stencils are everywhere! Check out Bansky. Here is a photo of a stencil left on Hennepin Avenue by ObeyGiant when he cruised through town a few weeks ago.