What a great way to start your little ones on the basics of typography! Norwegian design house Studio 3 has created an activity book titled Hyperactivitypography which aims to teach children the ins-and-outs of typography through cute illustrations, games, and tons of useful facts… …even the evils of using Comic Sans! Unfortunately, the book is currently out of […]
Suggu is a an alphabet mashup between Hangul (the Korean alphabet) and the Roman alphabet. This may not be that interesting to my non-Korean readers, but it’s fascinating to people like me who can read both Korean and English. Using the Roman alphabet’s consonants and Hangul’s vowels, Suggu produces some dazzling results, if I do […]
Comic Sans. It comes bundled with every operating system. It is one of the most widely-recognized fonts since the dawn of the personal computer. But has there ever been a typeface more hated and ridiculed than Comic Sans? I think that the last time I saw Comic Sans in use was in an AIM conversation, […]
Remember how obsessive I am about my fonts? While I love my trusty “Fonts” document, it can be a PITA to constantly keep it updated. Today I read about MyFontbook – a FREE font viewer that organizes all your fonts (all 700+ of them in my case) in an easy-to-use web interface. What makes MyFontbook […]
In the midst of developing three separate websites, I have been reading and bookmarking some useful sources for developers, designers, and bloggers. Here are six I’ve found myself returning to again and again during the past two weeks: 8 Definitive Web Font Stacks How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website 5 Exciting Things to […]
In my last post, I talked about the power of a typeface and the impact it can have on your audience. Today, I will discuss the role and proper usage of fonts in web design. Let’s start with the basics. Fonts can be divided into two categories: serif and sans serif. To put it simply, serif […]
This week’s NYTimes had an interesting OpEd titled To the Letter Born, discussing the impact that branding, especially the typeface Gotham, may have on Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency. For this piece, Stephen Heller interviews a branding expert named Brian Collins who explains: …there’s an oxymoronic quality to Gotham, which is why I think it’s […]
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