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Category: Typography

Eschering

15 January, 2010 (03:00) | Typography |

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

What Do You mean, “You Don’t Get It?”

8 November, 2009 (03:00) | Art, Cartoon, Typography |

What Kind of Artist are You?

This is Probably a Really Bad Idea

3 September, 2009 (04:00) | Typography |

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.

Driving Cognitive Costs Down

10 August, 2009 (03:00) | Other science, Typography, science-y observation |

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 [...]

From the Seven Ate Nine Files

18 February, 2009 (05:03) | Art, Typography |

Letter Monsters. A Flickr set

Quiz Time

5 December, 2008 (06:04) | History, Movies, Typography |

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

10 November, 2008 (06:12) | Typography |

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

More ABCs

13 October, 2008 (16:26) | Language, Typography |

22 Creative Alphabets

Arrr. That Helvetica Be a Scurvy Font!

12 September, 2008 (03:53) | Silly, Typography |

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

The Font Sizes of the Planets

28 July, 2008 (04:07) | Physics, Typography |

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

&@#*%$

22 July, 2008 (03:53) | Cartoon, Language, Typography |

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 [...]

What’s an Appropriate Font for ‘Anal?’

18 June, 2008 (07:23) | Silly, Typography |

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 [...]

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