The Public Radio International program "To the Best of Our Knowledge" just did an hour on fonts. There were interviews with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones and with Matthew Carter. The program is online for a week at http://wpr.org/book/.
Typophile
An Hour of Radio about Fonts
Argh. Any other file formats besides Real(ly annoying)Audio?
OK, really 45 minutes of radio about fonts, and 15 minutes of radio about how sad it is that kids don't learn [enough] handwriting anymore. :-[
Hey, 75% is still great!
(Thanks Gerry.)
hhp
Sure 75% is good if you look at it that way, but why not make it 100%? Font coverage is hard enough to get, and rare enough; they wouldn't have to twist it all around in the end and conclude that really, handwriting is just so *natural* and *personal* and let's all write letters by hand now. It seems to give the preceding font talk sort of a weird aftertaste. But maybe that's just me.
VLC Player is good for handling Real files.
Any other file formats?
You can subscribe to an MP3 podcast at http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4819402
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