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History, a layering font from Typotheque
According to Wordle
From the fine folks at Wordle.net.
Beauty Question
I keep hearing people say that Sarah Palin is good looking. Do they mean now? And compared to what–John McCain? Jesus, maybe I need new lenses, but she doesn’t do it for me. I just can’t get past thoughts of dog sleds I guess. And here’s another question: how much of the way a person is (voice, laugh, intellect, and so on) tends to interfere in a serious way with what your eyes are telling you about a person’s beauty? I have to say that sort of thing comes into play for me big time. I have a really hard time thinking, for instance, that anybody who decided to be a Republican could be beautiful. When I think of Laura Bush, for instance, I think of those standing signs with a slot that one rests one’s chin in for the purposes of picture taking….
Deron, it’s cars and typography
Examples
The typeface example blocks on Wikipedia are gorgeous.
I’ve long dreamed of a simple t-shirts: individual typeface names, in the typeface. One day, as soon as I get a new screen for my serigraphy set-up.
Dear Clusterflock
What’s your favorite 19th century typeface?
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Futura!
Through Our India I came to know of Elisabeth Bjone, who lives in Oslo. She does many fine things. Here is one, a photograph from her Flickr photostream.
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Font Conference
Our India’s Trip to Paradise
Of late we’ve been missing Our India, but it would appear she’s been having a grand time. Today’s post at India, Ink., titled Make hay while you can still hit the nail on the head, treats of her adventures at this year’s TypeCon and features a link to a Flickr photoset documenting her trip to Paradise.
designers’ favorite typefaces
(via swissmiss)
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Typography as Art
Typography as Art allows you to play with the 21 different parts of characters in the Roman alphabet. The idea is use these different parts to create atypical forms.
My little contribution. Don’t worry. I won’t quit my day job:
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Scraper
Search for a word and Scraper creates a typeface based on the Google news rss. It doesn’t have much use but it is a fun single serving site.
How Would William Caslon Have Written on a Post-It Note?
Avant Garde
A brief history of Avant Garde, the typeface:
“I asked him to picture a very modern, clean European airport (or the TWA terminal), with signs in stark black and white,” Ginzburg’s wife and collaborator, Shoshana recalled, “Then I told him to imagine a jet taking off the runway into the future. I used my hand to describe an upward diagonal of the plane climbing skyward. He had me do that several times. I explained that the logos he had offered us for this project, so far, could have been on any magazine but that Avant Garde (adventuring into unknown territory) by its very name was something nobody had seen before. We needed something singular and entirely new.”
According to Ralph Ginzberg, “The next morning, driving to work from his home in Woodmere he pulled over to the side of the road and phoned me (the first time he ever did that). ‘Ralph, I’ve got it. You’ll see.’ And the rest is design history.”
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