MetaFilter posts tagged with type

Type is Art

signal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:01:40 -0800

Type is art. Take little pieces of letterforms and make something new.

the quick brown fox

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

419 spam received; put down, flipped, reversed.

heeeraldo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:31:19 -0800

Marian Bantjes, typographer, designer, and Layer Tennis competitor, received a 419 spam email and turned it into this print. She's also written a number of interesting pieces for Speak Up; my favorites are the ones on design clichés, posters from the War Effort, the design language of heraldry and a (satirical) critique of the alphabet.

¿How do you design a year?

signal — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:16:39 -0800

The 2007 Feltron Annual Report . via

Second Life Twitter Typewriter

brownpau — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:36:53 -0800

Giant Twittering Typewriter in Second Life. Type here (SLURL) and press the carriage return and it posts to here. Yay. [via]

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.

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.

Intercut wood typeface project

Armitage Shanks — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:28:52 -0800

The product of an entire semester's work: one single type block. An essay on letterpress printing with wood. [via]

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.

Fonts at the movies

Terminal Verbosity — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:59:40 -0800

Fonts at the movies. Previously.