Archive for the 'Typography' Category

OurType: fine typography from Europe

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Founded in 2002, OurType.be is a collaborative font publishing website initiated by Fred Smeijers, a first generation digital type designer.
The website, all in flash (argh…), can seem a bit strange to navigate at first, but is very nice. In fact you can easily try the font live and see it at different sizes.
Every font you’ll [...]

Type is an organism

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

 
Typorganism is a seris of communication experiments exploring computational interaction design and interactive kinetic typography based on the metaphorical notion of typography “Type is a life form”, which lives on the Net, responds to user’s stimulus, evolves through time, has intelligence powered by computational algorithm.
http://www.typorganism.com

About the new Swisscom logo

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Creative review has a good post about the new branding of Swisscom, the main telecom company in Switzerland. I really don’t what to think about this logo, it quite smooth but too complicated. The typography is nice but feels a bit odd. I really have mixed feeling on this new logo, maybe it’s because I [...]

Middle-eastern typography

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Amazing posters by Reza Abedini 
I had the chance to travel to some arabic countries where I discovered the beauty of calligraphy as building or object ornementation. However, I’ve been wondering how this free style could be transposed into movable types or glyphs. Well, after doing a little research I can say that I’ve not been [...]

Typolade: typography with chocolate

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Very nice…

Keming

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Made me laugh. Via Type for You.

Font Must Die

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Can’t stand people using Comic Sans MS on websites you read? This user script is for you, it will help you to get rid of every instance of Comic Sans MS and replace it by a simple black sans-serif font.