MetaFilter posts tagged with fonts

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.

the quick brown fox

oneirodynia — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:19:11 -0800

Know Your Cuts of Font

wendell — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:09:24 -0800

The Rather Difficult Font Quiz Do you know your Birch from your Bembo from your Bauer Bodini (Hey! Where's Bookman?) At the moment, 34 fonts to identify with more coming soon. A fun way to spend 2-3 minutes and learn just how much a font nerd you really are. (I only got 25 out of 34? I'm ashamed!) Yes, the dreaded comic sans is part of the quiz, but not the others from the woebegotten Typematching post. Still, who the hell is Mrs. Eaves?

60 Brilliant Typefaces (and 40 free ones)

criticalbill — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:05:11 -0800

60 Brilliant Typefaces (for corporate design) plus 40 free ones. From Smashing Magazine (prev), which last year presented 80 Beautiful Typefaces for Professional Design Well I like them

Are you an ArcheTYPE or a StereoTYPE?

wendell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:59:21 -0800

Typematching: Can Mistral find love with Papyrus? Who cares? Scroll down to find out which of these 6 stereotypical fonts is your type...
"But...but... I can't be Comic Sans!!!"

Synaesthesia Ho!

geos — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:45:03 -0800

The MeeK FM Typographic Synthesizer(tube.)

He kissed me, he kissed me. Yecch.

growabrain — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:12:42 -0800

The story behind Woody Allen's signature typeface (with screengrabs from each film). Via. Bonus: 11 minutes from the opening of Annie Hall redone with Getty Stock Video by Aleksandra Domanovic

Belles Lettres

youarenothere — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:19:52 -0800

Israeli designer Oded Ezer produces stunning works of experimental typography. He has been lauded for creating [PDF link]"...Hebrew characters that melt," but it is his more unconventional work that is truly breathtaking - made up of letters with vivacity and personality. He calls his gorgeously abstracted work "typo art," existing wholly neither in the space of art or typography, with hope that it might transcend language altogether. See his flickr stream for more sketches, works, and arresting typescapes.

A Website about Corporate Identity.

JBennett — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:16:12 -0800

A Website about Corporate Identity. A large archive of corporation logos with design credits, typeface identification (or, at least the typographic roots of the ID's.) and Pantone color information. Not at all complete, but it's a very nice start. Hopefully it will continue to expand. via: Grain Edit (design blog)

Lines and splines

tepidmonkey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:45:08 -0800

So You Want to Create a Font (Part 1, Part 2). For something with a less presumptive title, there’s this, this, this, this, this, or even this, Eric Gill’s An Essay on Typography.