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8 Microlog entries tagged with ‘typography’
Entypo - 100+ carefully crafted pictograms
These are lovely — and free under CC licence. Arts & Culture ·
Reviewing DC Comics’ new brand identity
It’s slightly too clean and bland on its own, but I like its versatility, even if it is perpetuating the Gotham meme in marketing design. You know what else would help? Ben-Day dots. Just a thought. Interesting ·
Now and then: How film titles have evolved
The 1950s and ’60s are when things start getting awesome. But they’ve bland-ified in recent years, I feel. Sound & Screen ·
Inception and Gotham
I’m seeing Gotham everywhere now; it’s becoming the new Trajan. Perish the thought. Arts & Culture ·
Paul Hammond’s notes on typography from @media 2006
Just to add my own note: Helvetica might be unfashionable, but it’s underappreciated. Same goes for Georgia, which actually looks just fine in print too (if you like your fonts with a little padding round the middle). The real problem as I see it is that the wrong typefaces are being used in the wrong contexts: I never, for instance, saw Comic Sans in a real world, ‘meatspace’ setting until computers exploded in popularity in the late 1990s — is it really as popular as it’s made out to be, or are people just lazy, with no conscious understanding of the message and/or sub-text that such a font conveys? Arts & Culture ·
eyetwist_signs_162.jpg, by eyetwist
You just don’t see art like this ‘round these parts. Arts & Culture ·
More typography resources
A supplement to this entry from a few days ago. Arts & Culture ·
Typography Crash Course Roundup
A good spot for jumping in. Arts & Culture ·
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