Swans on Tea

Priori Acute
A typeface that abuses the three dimensions like the “impossible cube” and related drawings of MC Escher.

What Kind of Artist are You?

For me, anyway. My handwriting is pretty bad.
fontcapture
Create a font from your own handwriting
My (first) attempt, in which I did not pay much attention to the ascender and baseline marks.

Realizations of Rounded Rectangles
Time for an expert: I asked Professor Jürg Nänni, author of the exemplary Visual Perception, a book detailing our best-to-date scientific understanding of the processes involved in visual cognition. “Could rounded rectangles actually take less effort to see?”
Nänni confirmed my theory: “You are absolutely right. A rectangle with sharp edges takes indeed [...]

Letter Monsters. A Flickr set

Movie Poster Quiz
Guess the movie from just one letter taken from the movie’s poster (not necessarily the first letter, or most artistically distinct letter that appears). I got five.

Typocalypse
What your font is subliminally saying. Anyone use Didot?
via SwissMiss

22 Creative Alphabets

Pirate Fonts, in preparation for Talk Like a Pirate Day, Sept 19th.
via Neatorama

Using Wordle, the font size of planets and moons, determined by the diameter, at Orbiting Frog

The use of symbols to represent swearing actually has a name: grawlix
[I]t looks to have been coined by Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker around 1964. Though it’s yet to gain admission to the Oxford English Dictionary, OED Editor-at-Large Jesse Sheidlower describes it as “undeniably useful, certainly a word, and one that I’d [...]

Indiana Jones and the Fonts on the Maps
Whenever Indy is traveling great distances, which happens in all the films, there is a montage of the airplane or boat superimposed over an animated map showing the route. It’s an old-fashioned convention, an homage to the movies of the Thirties and Forties. Unfortunately, the typefaces would be [...]