Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source type family « Typblography. Adobe’s legacy in type technology Adobe has come a long way since its early days in which the specification for the PostScript Type 1 font format was a closely-guarded trade secret leading up to the “font wars.” Since this specification was begrudgingly published in 1990, Adobe has been more proactive in publicly releasing tools for developing and producing high-quality type. Subsequently, Adobe collaborated with Microsoft on the OpenType standard, which was later made an open standard for type technology as the Open Font Format: a free, publicly available standard (ISO/IEC 14496-22:2009). In connection with this, Adobe has shared its tool set for building OpenType fonts as the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO). Adobe’s open source contributions have not only been limited to the realm of type. The brief & development The primary need for type in Adobe’s open source applications has thus far been for usage within user interfaces.
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Fonts & Typography History & General Information. Website Fonts & Typography. Pic of the Day: Guildor’s Floating Typography. Milan-based street artist Guildor explains, “Writing on water is like writing down a thought in order to keep it secure even when it is shaken by the course of life, to distinguish the important things from those you should just let flow by.” Click through to see photos of his other foam “statements,” as well as a video of the artist at work. LOVE, LET THE REST FLOW, Milan FANCY, Venice PENSA SPENSIERATO (“THINK THOUGHTLESS”), Treviso LA FELICITA CAPITA (“HAPPINESS HAPPENS”), Treviso [via Wooster Collective]
Special Characters. Mixing-typefaces_U&lc1992.pdf (application/pdf Object) Selecting Fonts & Typefaces. The Secret Of Successful Minimal Font Usage. Minimal fonts can awesomely enhance any artwork if used properly. You can see more and more websites using minimal fonts in their designs. Personally I love the neat look of bold minimal font in a minimal design. In this article you’re going to find some tips together with stunning examples to learn more about minimal font usage in web design. While minimalism seems easy – it really isn’t, it takes great skill to come up with something clean, professional and unique at the same time! Let’s jump into art of minimal fonts? Bigger Is Better Since minimal fonts are rather slight you’ll have to use bigger font sizes in order to make your text visible and easy to read. Fajne Chlopaki uses huge headlines in his website’s header. Contrast If you’re using minimal fonts be sure not to lose contrast. The Visualbox site has a dark background and they’re using white fonts for titles.
Keep It Minimal Minimal fonts are for minimal usage. Oliver James Cosling’s portfolio has a clean and minimal look. 1. The League of Moveable Type. Typography Design and Inspiration | TypeInspire.
Tutorials | Type palettes. BY CHUCK GREEN Is the primary purpose of document design aesthetic? To my way of thinking—no. The first and, by far, the most important role of design is to map out the message. No matter how entertaining and visually exciting it is, the success of an ad, a brochure, or a newsletter is gauged by results alone—how many people are moved to action. Typography plays a dual role in design.
First and foremost it transmits the message. Second, the character of a typeface establishes a mood, much like a musical score does for a movie—it is not necessarily the primary focus, but it often plays a pivotal role in telling the story. These “type palettes” are a combinations of typefaces that, in my opinion, work together to elicit a particular mood or emotion. You can purchase direct from many foundries or from a source such as Myfonts.com that sells fonts from many different publishers. Font Viewer - myFontbook.com.
The library of the Gutenberg Museum. By Dan Reynolds I. Introduction Large or small, letters seem to inhabit their own universe. Re-arrangeable in any combination, they can spell out all conceivable messages, be they poetic, bureaucratic, or anything in between. But sometimes a text is just about its letters themselves, not an object to be read, but one to be looked at. II. Figure 1: Oversize type specimen from Johann Erasmus Luther’s typefoundry, the Luther’sche Schriftgießerei. For hundreds of years, this small German city along the Rhine has been known for Johannes Gutenberg and his invention — printing with movable metal type.
Figure 2: 1785–1786 specimen from William Caslon’s foundry in Great Britain (dimensions not recorded by the author). Lesser known is the museum’s small library, which is open to the public. III. Mori may be most known for his work collecting type specimen from Frankfurt am Main. Today, type foundries tend to design and produce folded or bound catalogs to show off their typefaces. IV. V. VI. VII. Fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT)