Stop Using Small Font Sizes "I'm calling you out. All of you. The hackers, the designers, the code monkeys, the word-smiths, the editors, the CSS gurus, and everyone else who works on content management systems and style sheets for news sites. Stop using small font sizes."
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posted by mediareport
on Mar 12, 2013 -
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FF Chartwell is a typeface for creating simple editable graphs and charts, designed by
Travis Kochel. Driven by the frustration of creating graphs within design applications and inspired by typefaces such as
FF Beowolf and
FF PicLig, Travis saw an opportunity to take advantage of OpenType technology to simplify the process. Using
OpenType features, simple strings of numbers are automatically transformed into charts. The visualized data remains editable, allowing for hassle-free updates and styling.
Watch the demo video.
Buy a license.
posted by heatherann
on Jun 29, 2012 -
19 comments
Why does Futura work here but Slanted Futura doesn't? Enter
FONTS IN USE: A breakdown, explanation and appreciation of type design out in the real world.
posted by The Whelk
on Jan 3, 2011 -
17 comments
Tart cards [NSFW] are the means by which many London prostitutes advertise their services. Step into almost any central London phone box and you can contemplate up to 80 cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged.... [Wallpaper Magazine] asked designers – from students to superstars – to find the tart hiding in every typeface and create their own graphic numbers.... all 450 cards can be viewed
here.
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posted by carsonb
on Jun 26, 2009 -
39 comments
"I want our type to jump, scream, whisper and dance..." Ebon Heath and His Visual Poetry.
"When I close my eyes I can see the words of great poets like Rakem or Tupac flying thru the air and dancing with the same physicality my body instinctually feels. My mobiles attempt to create a visual sense of rhythm and flow that is alive, not contained." This
interview with Heath breaks down his
Stereo.type and
Purge projects.
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posted by netbros
on May 30, 2009 -
8 comments
Decodeunicode.org has a useful and full-featured search for the names and glyphs for those Unicode characters that display as a plain box full of despair. It is presented by the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. Roll the dice
⚅⚄ and try it out.
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posted by TheOnlyCoolTim
on Jan 23, 2009 -
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It’s easy to talk about
Adrian Frutiger in the past tense, since his most influential fonts –
Univers,
Egyptienne, and the eponymous
Frutiger – are all at least thirty years old. But
he is still alive, and in the summer of 2006, as he was presented with the
Society for Typographic Aficionados’ annual
Typography Award, type designer
Mark Simonson gave
a presentation on how Frutiger [pdf, 18 MB] affected, and continues to affect, him and all others who benefit from good typography.
posted by tepidmonkey
on Oct 3, 2007 -
14 comments
I loved this beautifully filmed short documentary on
The Letterpress. For those of us who have ever risked our very own fingers for the cause of printing, or had the California Job Case burned into memory, this will be a trip down memory lane. For the rest of you, it may give you an idea for your next hobby.
posted by The Deej
on Aug 23, 2007 -
30 comments
Daily Type is a creative project run by five russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine.
posted by Robot Johnny
on Jun 1, 2005 -
10 comments
Thinking with Type The online companion to the book of the same name offers a nice little online primer on the finer points of typography, including my favourite new online game: Dumb Quotes. Remember kids: only
you can prevent poor kerning.
posted by Robot Johnny
on Jan 31, 2005 -
15 comments
