Archive for Typography
The AWWWARDS site has a list of best 20 web fonts. Web typography is a little far afield from this blog's usual topics, but I figure it's close enough....
It struck me a while back that every time there's any text on any sign, someone had to choose a font and a size for it, among other design choices....
Want some sample filler text, but find faux-Latin too stodgy? Now you can use Hipster Ipsum—“Artisanal filler text for your site or project” to fill your space with hipster-related terms....
Video demo of a nifty project called Typeface 2 by Mary Huang. It analyzes the user's face and generates letters of a typeface based on things like the user opening...
Guest blogger Shmuel here again... the problem with getting behind in blogging is that you feel that after taking so long, you ought to write something really good, which of...
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has been linking to various posts having to do with the use of small caps in typesetting. For example: Gore's choice explains Al Gore's request...
(Published some time after the scheduled date.) izarre. I seem to have written nearly four years' worth of columns without discussing typography. I've touched on typography in passing (as in column ddd and column UU), but I haven't said much about it, and I haven't talked about fonts. Fonts are everywhere. I had a minor […]