MetaFilter posts tagged with font and fonts

It's Helvetica! I know this!

flatluigi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:39:14 -0800

TypeWar: How well do you know your fonts?

Makes writing letters a breeze.

Korou — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:18:28 -0800

Make your handwriting into a font! Print out a template, scan and upload to fontcapture, et voila! your own personal font.

Fonts Personified.

jacquilynne — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:19:16 -0800

Font Conference. A video from CollegeHumor which made me laugh more than a video from CollegeHumor really should.

hee hee... Gryphs!

Robot Johnny — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:49:48 -0800

BitFontMaker - Create, edit, and save your own truetype pixel font via this web app.

nice fonts

specialk420 — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:23:55 -0800

nice fonts in a simple yet exceedingly well designed wrapper. via newstoday

Everyone loves/hates the Olympics!

luriete — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:09:58 -0800

Free the Olympukes. Fontshop, the 500-lb gorilla of type foundries, has released Jonathan Barnbrook's Olympukes dingbat font - which does a good job of reconciling the love/hate relationship many of us have with this most constructed of all sports events - for free. Barnbrook is the politically savage designer behind the Virus typefoundry, and is probably most well-known for collaborations with Damien Hirst and the typefaces Exocet and Mason (which was originally called Manson – and "intended to speak of the uncomfortable associations between elegance and violence" – but was renamed Mason in a fit of ~~pique~~ marketing), which are sold through the fine folks at Emigre.

Pour yourself a big ol' glass of typohol

ColdChef — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:18:22 -0800

Are you a typoholic? It starts so innocently. One day you're mildly interested in the difference between display and text typefaces. Soon you can distinguish between teardrop and beak terminals. Suddenly you're annoying everyone in the movie theater by yelling out the names of all the fonts used in the credits. What's so scary is that you never saw it coming. You, my friend, are a type freak.

Identifont -- Identify that elusive font!

chrismear — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:54:14 -0800

Identifont is an amazing, free, font identification tool. Ever seen some nice text in print or on the web, wanted to use it yourself, but couldn't work out what font they used? By answering a series of simple questions (Does the 'Q' tail cross the circle? What shape is the 'g'?), all presented with handy example pictures, Identifont can quickly identify the name of the font you're looking for.

Once there was a typeface called Helvetica

btwillig — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:19:58 -0800

Arial or Helvetica?

kirkaracha — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 11:12:37 -0800

Font sizing comparisons The Noodle Incident has screenshots comparing different font sizing methods on various browsers and platforms.

Su — Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:25:18 -0800

Typographic56 has some interesting type experimentation geared towards the screen. Warrning: browser hijacking, though relatively well-done. More stuff at NoFont, and Bembo's Zoo. Know of any other places people are playing like this?

grant — Sat, 06 Nov 1999 20:31:35 -0800

A bunch of display type hacks... who just happen to be the berries in my book. Ok, I'm a type geek, I admit it - and I've designed a couple of fonts myself... But the boys over at House Industries are without a doubt the hippest cats this side of a kerning table.