I’ve been thinking for a little while that the text on Ministry of Type is maybe a tad too small, making me guilty (perhaps) of that terrible designers’ conceit, small type syndrome. I’ve been designing sites for clients lately with much larger text, around the 13-15pt range, and coming back to my own site with its small text gives me a bit of a jolt. So here goes, bigger text, and a switch to FF Dagny Web Pro from FontFont, delivered via Typekit. I like FF Dagny a lot for its own characteristics, but I have to admit I’m fond of it too because it reminds me of Univers and Folio. Of course, if either of those two Linotype faces were ever to be available for online embedding (ice-skating through Hades, anyone?) there’s no guarantee they’d actually work well in the browser anyway. Perhaps right now type designers at Linotype are working on web versions of their entire back catalogue?

Oh, and yes, I was thinking of this when I wrote the title.

Yes, the Ministry of Type is now on Twitter! I’ve been using Twitter personally for a while now for a mixture of ranting, stream of consciousness ramblings, conversation and announcements of new Ministry things, so if you’ve been following me there and would like just the announcements, then follow ministryoftype. It’s not going to be a high volume feed, just announcements of new articles and various things related to the site itself.

I dislike ‘meta’ posts, posts about posting, or posts about not posting, for that matter, and I’d rather keep my day-to-day work separate from what I write here. However, just this once I’m going to break that rule.

I’ve been busy this week getting my online portfolio up to date with a shiny new design; rather different from the clean spaces of the Ministry I’ll admit, and in a very different tone of voice, but it’s all about being appropriate I guess. Still, I finally got to use some of those guilloches I made!

If anyone needs a rather good (and oh so modest) art director, creative director-designer type hanging about their offices drinking litres of coffee, then do get in touch. The portfolio is here, and the usual LinkedIn profile is here.