10 Typography Terms Every Designer Should Know. So you’ve got a passion for design, but you can’t tell your x-height from your ascender and you think a Bézier Curve is a new chair from IKEA.
Don’t worry, here’s a quick guide to some essential terminology to get your feet wet in the typography ocean. Since design is a visual art, I’ve provided some examples from Creative Market shops to illustrate the different terms. Petites lessons de typographie.pdf. These Posters Make Learning About Typography Fun. Curious about ligatures, justified columns, and other typography principles?
What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch. Steve Matteson has designed some of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the world, and engineered the original core fonts for Microsoft, adapting Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier, which you've probably used for term papers or resumes or anything else you wrote in Word.
He has also created some less-classic designs that he's not too proud of, such as "Curlz," which falls in the Comic Sans camp of typefaces reserved for high school yearbooks, princess-themed birthday party invitations, and mockery. But that is the plight of a professional font designer: One day you get to make lasting letter sets, the next you have to pay the bills.
"Sometimes you have to do work that you're not really proud of," Matteson, the creative type director at Monotype, told Fast Company. "That's why we call it work instead of play. " Typography. How Adobe Solved The Biggest Problem In Digital Font Design. Back in the late 1970s, computer scientists working on the first laser printer discovered they had a problem: how do you scale a digital font without making it look terrible at low resolutions?
You stop thinking in pixels. How to make an icon font - the 8 step guide. Follow this how-to guide by an Atlassian designer to make a single icon font for the Atlassian products.
The Atlassian design team has been making some big changes to our products over the last 12 months. Flickr: Intercambio de fotos. Typeface vs. Font: Terminology Smackdown. Last Friday, someone at Microsoft posed “What is your favorite font?”
As the day’s question on twitter. A Brief Introduction to Typography. Agosto 27, 2012 § La Tipografia és un dels elements clau de tot disseny gràfic.
M’atreviria a dir que és l’ELEMENT. Can Colored Text Turn You Into an Online Speed-Reader? Remember the "undesign" wars of not-too-long ago?
Tools like Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability battled one another to offer users just the right combination of ad-destroying, page-reformatting goodness so that they could read the web in (visual) peace. In the end they weren't (and aren't) all that much different from one another, but now there's a new tool called BeeLine Reader which actually offers a new visual solution to the problem of tough-on-the-eyes web text.
And that solution is gradients. Handwriting font creator. The History of Typography - Animated Short. A Legendary Type Collection, Reborn For The Instagram Age. For decades, if you were an art director in New York City and you needed lettering for a commercial project, Photo-Lettering Inc. was the place you went.
The studio’s creative director, Ed Benguiat, is responsible for some of the most iconic logotypes of all time, including those of publications like Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times as well as films like Super Fly and Planet of the Apes. But the beauty of PLINC, as Benguiat’s outfit was known, was that it provided fresh type for advertisements, album covers, or magazine spreads at prices anyone could afford. You could pick a typeface from the company’s catalog of thousands, call up its office in New York’s Murray Hill neighborhood, and get whatever tagline or title card you needed, printed with cutting-edge photographic techniques, for an exceedingly modest fee. In 1970, 10 words only set you back $30. In essence, the new iPhone app reinvents Photo-Lettering for the Instagram age. Download the app here. Sputnik Animated Font by Zach Christy on Behance.
10 Inspiring Type Designers From A New Generation. It’s an exciting time for type.
Today’s robust generation of young typographers is constantly experimenting with the limits of one of the oldest visual art forms, and at the same time, the Internet has created a vast audience of design observers hungry for the next new thing. But today’s most gifted typographers aren’t only concerned with bleeding-edge digital techniques.
In The Political Realm, Typography Is Power. Protest has gone undeniably digital since the Arab Spring, with online tools guiding and broadcasting protest. How Facebook Measured Gay Marriage Support With An Equals Sign. This week, as the Supreme Court heard testimony regarding same-sex marriage, my Facebook profile was flooded with a single avatar--a pink-on-red equals sign promoted by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Generally a curmudgeon about armchair activism, I was drawn the the strong visual (literally, as the eye is naturally drawn to red). A Font For Supporters Of Marriage Equality. The History of Typography movie by Ben Barrett-Forrest. Hundreds of cut-out paper letters tell the history of typefaces in this stop-motion animation by Canadian graphic designer Ben Barrett-Forrest.
Starting in the fifteenth century with Johannes Gutenberg's Blackletter font, The History of Typography charts the major innovations in font design up to the present day. Barrett-Forrest explains the variations between early serif fonts such as Caslon and Baskerville and how they evolved into modern sans serif fonts such as Futura and Helvetica. Cutting out and animating the letters took Barrett-Forrest around 140 hours over a period of two months, on top of dozens of hours of research and post-production. "It was fairly tedious cutting out almost 300 paper letters, especially the serif typefaces with their tiny spikes, but it soon became almost meditative," says Barrett-Forrest. A Typeface Designed To Thwart NSA Surveillance.
Long before Edward Snowden leaked the Prism documents, Sang Mun served two years of mandatory service for the Korean military, gathering intelligence under the NSA. He didn’t choose to publish any classified documents, but he’s encouraging a counter-surveillance revolution in his own way: by designing ZXX a typeface to thwart prying eyes. “Sometimes these ideas about privacy can feel large and abstract to the average person,” Mun tells Co.Design.
Interactive Guide to Blog Typography. The majority of websites are composed of a bright, usually white background and dark text. Then there's the small minority of the web: dark websites, colorful websites. Why is the bright background used by the majority of websites? Utilitarian Motivation The common use for small caps is for abbreviations longer than 2 letters, such as CSS, HTML and WYSIWYG excluding AM, PM, BC and similar.
Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language. Best Free Fonts of 2010. Last week we kicked off our “Best of 2010″ series by showing you the best free WordPress themes released in the past year. This week the focus is on fonts. Download Trebuchet MS. 50 Best Free Fonts of All Time. An Opentype Font displaying Time as an analogue Clock. Infographics Become Easy As Pie, With This Disruptive Font.
Inspirirng typography. Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. The word typography is originally derived from greek words τύπος(typos) = form and γραφή(graphy) = writing.Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. Enjoying TypeToy. Fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) Colorful and Creative Typography by COLOURlovers. I love seeing interesting art pieces made entirely of words. Words become even more powerful when you depict them in an interesting way, such as in a typographical art piece.