MetaFilter posts tagged with fonts and typography

Would you say no to having David Bowie on your Coffee Table?

Faintdreams — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:53:32 -0800

Along with a career retrospective, the V&A Museum in London will publish an extensive photo book covering Bowie's career to date. Graphic design studio Barnbrook has designed the 'David Bowie is' book which accompanies the V&A's exhibition of the same name. The book is the first ever to be produced with full access to the David Bowie. "Drawing inspiration from songs, costumes, films, portraits, landmarks and more, we created a set of graphic elements to use throughout the book," says Abbott. "These are used as background textures and in graphic juxtapositions to introduce a playful, pop sensibility" Although standard copies will be available from the V& A shop, particularly avid collectors can buy one of the 500 limited edition prints on pre-order. Although at £395 per copy you'd have to be a big Bowie fan. The non-limited edition version of the book comes in cloth bound hardback edition and retails for a much more reasonable £30.00 "The Collector's Special Edition will be clothbound and feature a lithographic print signed by David Bowie himself and bound into the book. Each edition will be numbered, cased in Perspex and handfinished. Only 500 copies will be printed. Priced at £395, DAVID BOWIE IS Collector's Special Edition will be published on 23rd March" The 'David Bowie is' exhibition will run from 23rd March until the 11th August 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London [UK] A specialised font called 'Albertus' was designed by Barnbrook for the book. Barnbrook are known for their font creation and typography and have been mentioned on Metafilter previously.

Typography Nerds Take Note

jeffamaphone — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:57:54 -0800

Courier Prime , a new, updated, better-looking and free (beer and speech) version of Courier has been released. It's been designed for screen plays but very much suitable for other uses, including documents, the web and mobile applications. But like screenplay writers, software developers have a very special need for monospace fonts. I've always had a love / hate relationship with this font, and I'm excited to see it getting some updated love. I expect those who look at monospace fonts all day will be excited as well.

Word As Image, by Ji Lee

growabrain — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:37:03 -0800

Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself.
Rule: use only the graphic elements of the letters without adding outside parts.
From the mind of Ji Lee Previously on M-F

The ascending and descending trajectory of grunge typography

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:44:29 -0800

The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography.

Taylor Mali poem, animated

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:41:39 -0800

A typographical animation of Taylor Mali's poem, "Totally like whatever, you know?"

You couldn't just Tweet the Declaration of Independence

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:45:06 -0800

The Dunlap broadside was the first printing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Big (and small) Numbers

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:09:42 -0800

FatFonts creates numerical fonts where the amount of ink/pixels for each number is in direct proportion to its value.

Frustro: The Impossible Typeface

Foci for Analysis — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:02:28 -0800

Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedűs has created a single typeface, titled Frustro, on the sole premise of making it impossible.

The Comic Sans Project

blue_beetle — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:05:03 -0800

WE ARE THE COMIC SANS DEFENDERS. WE FEAR NO FONTS AND WE WILL MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD COMIC SANS. BECAUSE HELVETICA IS SOOO 2011

Shape Type

Memo — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:39:06 -0800

Shape Type is a letter shaping game, created by the same people that made Kern Type (previously).

Typographic Inspiration

netbros — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:36:27 -0800

Beautiful Type is a patchwork of photos and illustrations having a relationship with typography. AisleOne is focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism. iABC is a collection of beautiful letters. Inspiration Bit has a nice archive of articles about web typography. Nicetype is about fonts, logos, posters and software. Twenty-Six Types celebrates the beautiful letters. Typenuts is type-themed iPhone and desktop wallpapers. Typoretum is about typography, letterpress and printing history. Enjoy.

No comic sans...

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:43:17 -0800

The 8 Worst Fonts In The World

Avería

Evilspork — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:48:52 -0800

This is the story of the creation of a new font: Avería [from mefi projects]

What makes for a good UI font?

dst — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:23:28 -0800

Ian Hex writes about the features that make for a good UI typeface by comparing and contrasting five different fonts (Segoe UI, Lucida Grande, Ubuntu, Helvetica Neue, and Droid Sans) . He also links to a great post on the making of Azuro. Left out of the race was Nokia Pure.

KernType, a kerning game

Foci for Analysis — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:22:10 -0800

KernType is a game where you put your kerning skills to the test.

"The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website"

Artw — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:42:47 -0800

Typekit, the subscription based Web Font service founded by Jeffery Veen, has been aquired by Adobe.

Typeface based on sculpture becomes motorized sculpture

joeclark — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:11:19 -0800

Typeface based on sculpture becomes motorized sculpture. The (European) typeface Jigsaw, “which was inspired by sculpture,” finds a use in typesetting the names of donors to a (U.S.) regional arts council. “A motorized disk contains approximately 2,000 names.... Pushing an initial letter on the control panel allows the viewer to find a particular name. The disk rotates and stops at the requested letter and displays all the names corresponding to the requested letter by backlighting them with white LEDs.” (Gallery; Vimeo video.) Cf. arranging the names on the 9/11 memorial.

Pay What You Want Type

netbros — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:21:37 -0800

The Lost Type Co-op is a collaboration between Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran. It was founded with the intention of providing unique and quality fonts based on a pay-what-you-want model. All designers get 100% of the donations their font receives.

HUGLAGHALGHALGHAL

ardgedee — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:29:59 -0800

You might expect a jokey April 1 press release announcing Comic Sans Pro is yet another seasonal prank. Yet here it is, as little as $35 per face or $120 for the whole family.

Stroke weight

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:47:58 -0800

We love typography. Don't try to deny it. We love it deconstructed. We love asking questions about it, and hearing people talk about it. We’ll even play games about it.

New Egyptian régime blows its chance to legitimately use the Papyrus font

joeclark — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:56:38 -0800

The new Egyptian régime blows its chance to legitimately use the Papyrus font. The Egyptian president’s official site (for standardistas: HTML 3.2 with no language declared!) squanders a chance at typographic symbolism, Typophile explains: “Unfortunately, they had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to legitimately use Papyrus and they blew it. Instead it’s Algerian.” (Type specimens: Papyrus; Algerian. Cf. Papyrus Watch [previously].)

What do type designers look like?

joeclark — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:47:24 -0800

The Museum of Modern Art announced this week it would induct 23 digital-era typefaces into its permanent collection (Times coverage). But what do the designers of these fonts look like? Pics or it didn’t happen: first set; second.

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shakespeherian — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:38:12 -0800

300&65 Ampersands is a Tumblr blog celebrating the beauty of the ampersand. (Archive)

Typeface Lust

netbros — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:03:02 -0800

Type specimen printed in author’s blood

joeclark — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:59:30 -0800

Fraktur mon amour: Ruud Linssen’s Book of War, Mortification and Love is a collection of “essays on voluntary suffering” that works as a specimen of the Fakir blackletter typeface issued by merry pranksters Underware. Bored already? Well, try this on for size: It’s “printed in the author’s blood.”