MetaFilter posts tagged with font

I thought I was the only one

The Whelk — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:02:38 -0800

“I think sometimes that being overly type-sensitive is like an allergy,” : The New York Times on the perils of being a font nerd.

It's Helvetica! I know this!

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

TypeWar: How well do you know your fonts?

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).

Helveticamembert

Alt F4 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:13:00 -0800

Galliard. Amienne. Miso. Postel. Is it a cheese? Or is it a font?

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.

Morisawa Fontpark

rollbiz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:16:17 -0800

Morisawa Fontpark : View or create amazing art with Japanese characters.

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.

clean type is godly type

cjorgensen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:22:16 -0800

We've seen it done before with Ms. Dewey (previously), but all the same, meet Max Kerning. He's also on Facebook and Twitter. He's a total shill (Sutcase Fusion 2) but still worth checking out. I'd make the rest of this post about the effectiveness of using social media for marketing purposes, but frankly, I care more about type. I love typography in fact (previously). If this too is your thing, check out webtypography (previously). Or if you find type on the internet too restrictive consider using sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). swfIR (swf Image Replacement) does a similar trick with images. You can have your handwriting made into a font. (previously). Or grab some free fonts. Or maybe you want your web without words (or images really). And be sure to check out Web Designer Wall to make sure you're doing it correctly (previously). Previously. Previously.

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.

Typography posters and videos

Kattullus — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:04:57 -0800

Two blogposts from Smashing Magazine: Breathtaking Typographic Posters and Typography in Motion. Some notables: Retro Artist Feature, Linocut Print of London, It's the Outsideness Flavour of It, Zeitgeist, Hier Vorne, 80 of 500 Handdrawn Posters and music video for Ya no sé qué hacer conmigo by Uruguayan band Cuarteto de Nos.

Mo' letter

ericbop — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:41:06 -0800

Facial hair font

FontStruct is a free online truetype font-building tool.

Dave Faris — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:43:36 -0800

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

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.

Helvetica: The Apotheosis of the Invisible Art

digaman — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:07:15 -0800

In 1957, Swiss typographer Max Miedinger invented "the official typeface of the 20th century" -- Helvetica [previously discussed here, via Arts and Letters Daily].

Ligatures are fun!

eriko — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:26:15 -0800

Typophile speculates. We have several symbols in english that stand for words commonly used enough that simplifying their written forms (@, &, %) became common. What would have happened if chat-speak had become common before computers, people started writing them in shorthand, and type foundries realized that we needed a Helvitica Medium Bold version of the WTF ligature?

It doesn't do Tibetan

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:25:02 -0800

Sick of ▯? Try Code2000.

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.

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.

Fontifier

Mwongozi — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:23:08 -0800

Fontifier will take a scan of your handwriting and turn it into a TrueType font.
...for $9.

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)