Check out FontShop’s educational materials. Downloadable PDFs with tutorials and tips on typography.
So You Need a Typeface by Julian Hansen. Accurate, funny and looks exceptional on a 30” display. Be sure to check out the Comic Sans flow.
Public Gothic is a new gothic font by Antrepo with 4 fantastic variations, and it’s free.
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
“Handcrafted with love by BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. A visual typographic feast about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity. Everything in the film is real—no CG effects!”
Carsonified goes Cooper and monochromatic. Also ThinkVitamin isn’t a magazine anymore, it’s just the Carsonified blog. Just whatever you do, don’t click on Team. Ouch!
A post from Ryan Sims audio tumble. He takes a song and produces some great typography to portray the meaning of the song while using the color scheme from the album cover. The above is a line from Along the Road” by Radical Face
Good Design. Good Music.
For anyone out there who ends up creating images for titling (because sIFR is too complex to set up or otherwise) I recommend Cufón (pronounced koo-fone, like “I love the features of the iPhone.” “Yeah, it’s a pretty koo-fone.”)
It creates an image of your text on the fly with javascript. It uses the canvas element in all browsers that support it and for IE it uses VML.
I haven’t run it though any extensive tests but in everything I’ve tried it seems very promising. They are aware of some current limitations, foremost among them being selectable text. They’re working on a solution. Check it out; it may save you some Photoshop time and bandwidth costs.
“If anyone is interested, I’m thinking of doing a type poster representing the Church Office Building, set in Hobo and Impact. $200? Let me know if ur interested.”Jason, commenting on the fact that Cameron’s magnificent letterpress poster of the Salt Lake Temple has sold out after only a couple of days.
I’m one of the least typographical guys in our group. But even I can appreciate a good cross between typography and 80’s cartoons with the Optima T-Shirt :)
Wordle for last October’s General Conference, via Larry Richman. Nice job—love the font and color choices!
Clarification: Connor Boyack is actually the one who created this arrangement, using Wordle. See the comments for more info.
Just learned from PRINT Magazine that iLife and iWork have an OpenType palette. Though it seems you can’t access all open type features (e.g. stylistic alternatives), you can still get to ligatures, small caps and old style & lining figures.
To access the Typography palette: from the Fonts palette, click the gear icon in the lower-left and select Typography.
Oh, and don’t forget the Glyphs palette in Illustrator & InDesign
Enjoy
Reading stories to my kids this morning, I was impressed by the hand-drawn type on the cover of The Little Engine That Could and found it interesting that you can still see the rules the artist drew to guide his baseline and x-height. It’s interesting how typography has been both blessed and injured by advancements in technology. Even the best designers among us get lazy and let the computer do too much. Here’s a casual reminder for you this morning to not forget that it’s just a tool and that it’s still up to you to make sure that your type is set perfectly. An example of this is the introductory line in the book that our team is currently reading. I was shocked to see that the last word was hyphenated. It looked horrible. It’s sad that the publisher let that go to print.
I’d like to discuss this book for our next team off-site.
“Graphic design is an organic process that uses type and image to create a visual solution for a communication problem. Much like leaves make up the shape of a tree, a graphic design solution is made up of many elements working together to create the whole. Research and knowledge are at the root of design. Formats and grids offer structure—the branches. But it is the smallest elements of design—the letterforms—which bring a design to life.”Thoughts on Leaves & Letters, a leaflet from Vangool Design & Typography
“There are two types of people in the world:Grubing Fireball, on the new iPhone-ready Flickr.
those who can’t tell the difference between
Arial and Helvetica, and those who despise Arial.”
“There’s a very thin lineGraphic designer David Carson,
between simple and clean and powerful
and simple and clean and boring.”
former art director of Transworld Skateboarding and Raygun magazines,
and former professional surfer, in this clip from Helvetica.
“Your Journey Made Simple” by Shaz Madani
A response designed to promote the M25 motorway. On one side the poster gives exact directions that would have to be taken in order to travel from one side of London to the other illustrating the complexity and confusion involved in taking alternative routes through the center of the city. The reverse side reads: “wipe away the confusion take the M25″.
Nice use of contrast and a good understanding of type and form.
Simple still looks good.
“In typography neither the old style nor the new style matters; quality does.”Jan Tschichold, On Typography (1957) — Jason Santa Maria provides a nice little piece about Tschichold’s change of heart, from his youthful days of san-serif only typographic rebellion in Nazi Germany to his latter years of classical inspiration as the head designer for Penguin Press. Tschichold’s writing and design work is something that every designer should be familiar with.