http://www.metafilter.com/tags/typography+calligraphy Posts tagged with 'typography' and 'calligraphy' at MetaFilter. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:23:09 -0800 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:23:09 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/80464/You%2DAre%2DMy%2DType <a href="http://ministryoftype.co.uk/">The Ministry of Type</a> is a weblog about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things. <a href="http://fontfeed.com/">The FontFeed</a>, from the folks at <a href="http://www.fontshop.com/">FontShop</a>, is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Articles of interest in the archives include: Passenger and pedestrian symbols created in the early 20th Century; as part of the <a href="http://ministryoftype.co.uk/words/article/isotype/">Isotype project</a> set up by Otto Neurath to provide information to the often-illiterate proletariat. Central to banknote designs are <a href="http://ministryoftype.co.uk/words/article/guilloches/">Guilloche patterns</a>, which can be created mechanically with a geometric lathe, or more likely these days, mathematically. <a href="http://ministryoftype.co.uk/words/article/travel_posters_of_other_times/">Travel posters</a> promoting travel to exotic eras and destinations, such as the Crimson Canyons of Mars, Tranquil Miranda, or the Winter Wonderland of the Ice Age. It’s not just the latest font technology, but also the most advanced, poised to replace the old TrueType and PostScript formats. <a href="http://fontfeed.com/archives/embrace-the-opentype-hype/">Embrace the open type hype</a>. The best <a href="http://fontfeed.com/archives/contemporary-handwriting-fonts/">contemporary handwriting typefaces</a> in various writing styles — from print to cursive, simple to swashy. Sometimes, flat just doesn’t cut it, and we need to find other, more attractive ways to present designs. <a href="http://fontfeed.com/archives/tip-photorealistic-perspective/">Tutorial: Photorealistic Perspective</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.80464 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:23:09 -0800 calligraphy fontfeed fonts fontshop guilloche isotype lettering ministryoftype opentype symbols type typography netbros http://www.metafilter.com/71293/Keyboard%2Dcalligraphy <a href="http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200704/keyboard.calligraphy.htm">Keyboard calligraphy</a> "To produce such a typeface, M&#0252;teferrika knew he had to analyze Arabic script. Calligraphers might learn to make the correctly shaped letter combinations by practice, without conscious application of tens of thousands of rules, but for machine reproduction of the script, deciphering those rules was exactly what was essential." tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71293 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:25:49 -0800 Arabic calligraphy typography dhruva http://www.metafilter.com/54073/Type%2Dhandwriting%2Dand%2Dlettering <a href="http://briem.ismennt.is/">Type, handwriting, and lettering</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.54073 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:50:25 -0800 calligraphy cursive fonts handwriting iceland language lettering penmanship printing type typefaces typesetting typography persona non grata http://www.metafilter.com/52399/Computational%2Dcalligraphy <a href="http://www.caligraft.com">Caligraft</a> - computational calligraphy. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52399 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:45:55 -0800 art calligraphy processing text typography Wolfdog