There are so many font sites out there that for the first time searcher it’s kind of over-whelming. You need time on your side when choosing the right fit for your design work. I think UrbanFonts.com is the first font site that I’ve taken a decent look at through my blog posts, and I’m doing so after they paid ReviewMe for my time.
Here’s a nice example of typography, designed around a scene from the excellent Tarantino movie, Pulp Fiction. Please be aware that there’s some harsh language throughout the video clip.
Typography can be seen all around us, in almost every aspect of our lives. There’s a music video, called ‘The Child’ for French DJ Alex Gopher, which was created back in 1999 and it’s definitely worth a look if you haven’t seen it already. In fact, even if you have it’s still enjoyable.
How big a movie fan are you? Do you get to the cinema early so you can watch the trailers or do you leave it until the last minute?
I’m a big movie lover. Especially those films with an added design element at the beginning.
Here’s a video shot in the London College of Printing (now known as the London College of Communication).
The short film lasts about five minutes and revolves around the effects that computers are having on the next generation of type users. It’s worth a watch, and was found through the Fade Theory blog.
How proficient is your sign language? This collection of matchbooks gives a little refresher course, doubling up as some clever design. It’s a novel idea that I hadn’t seen before.
I posted this article under typography but wasn’t really sure where it should go. Regardless, I like it.
From C71123 courtesy of Marc Rapp.
Flowing mainly around the distinctions between Arial and Helvetica, there’s an excellent typography discussion happening over at Noisy Decent Graphics. The comments, particularly these ones from Bruno Magg add value to the procedings.
On the side, if you’ve ever wondered what “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is, it’s a pangram that has [...]
Thanks to Microsoft, Arial is now on millions of desktop computers all over the world. Some typefaces are remarkably similar to eachother to the untrained eye.Take this 30 second test to see if you can tell the difference between the Arial and the ‘trendy’ Helvetica over ten examples.