MetaFilter posts tagged with font and typeface

Some "bloody design consistency" on the Underground

badrolemodel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:33:30 -0800

Eiichi’s self-confessed shock is now hopefully more understandable – he was not simply being asked to rework an old typeface, he was being asked to touch up an acknowledged “Old Master.” Johnstone Sans - A Typeface for the Underground. Johnston Sans helped begat the also classic Gill Sans, created by the now infamous Eric Gill (Previously) The undergroud font is commercially available from P22. Britsh Rail commisioned its own typeface in the 1960's known as the Rail Alphabet (new version here), created by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert who also produced the system for Britain's road and motorway signage (a free version is available here).

Frankenfonts

Kronos_to_Earth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:33:29 -0800

Artist Julián Dorado puts together typographical creatures. The alphabet can be a little scary.... Typefaces. (via) There is a time-lapse video of how the images are created, and a pictorial description.

Comic Sans

GuyZero — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:59:33 -0800

The story behind Comic Sans: The web's most hated typeface. Previously

"Your brain knows the shape of the word."

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:06:01 -0800

How the new type standard for American road signage reduces halation and improves readability.

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.

New Typeface for Yale

ColdChef — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:33:46 -0800

A New Typeface for Yale The Yale typeface is available to Yale employees, students, and authorized contractors for use in Yale publications and communications. It may not be used for personal or business purposes, and it may not be distributed to non-Yale personnel.

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.

I hate the letter

five fresh fish — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:12:35 -0800

Microsoft Typeface Recall and an apology offered: a Swastika happened to slip by the censors. But is it really all that offensive? (more inside)

youhas — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:54:36 -0800

Behind The Typeface Presents: Cooper Black. The gripping saga of one typeface's trials and tribulations, following its path from the dizzying heights of stardom to the brink of self-destruction and back again. (Flash 5, approx. 3MB.)

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.