Fonts
Until recently, the font-world has evolved slower than a dinosaur stuck in superglue. This holds especially true for people on the web, who have been stuck with the same old fonts(Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Times New Roman) since, well, forever.
The Google Font API is here to change all of that. At it’s heart, the Font API ...
Small fonts are a conundrum. Once you go below the 9px mark, they tend to become unreadable. It’s at this point you need to call in the, um, “big” guns. Mini-pixel fonts. These handy and popular fonts have a variety of uses. They show up in Flash applications and various other webapps. Sadly, they are ...
Some fonts just don’t like getting teeny. They get angry and become unreadable. When that happens it’s time to call in the big little guns. Specially designed mini fonts are perfect for situations when you need something smaller than 9 px. These cute lil fonts are extremely popular in flash and flash-based applications, however have ...
Fonts! There are just so many of them. Where do you even start with narrowing down the thousands and thousands to a more manageable top 100? Luckily, a German magazine has done the legwork for you.
But how did they do that? Rating aesthetics isn’t the same as a baseball stat or something. It’s all in ...
Logos aren’t always what they seem. Some contain hidden information about the brand, or iconic imagery, or even just fun and kooky stuff. Some can even be downright mysterious. Join us on a journey into the surreal world of branding as we go over 23 brilliant logos with hidden messages:
Big Ten
The Big Ten founded ...
Typography is the best, isn’t it? But it’s a field that is always growing, always changing. In short, we need apps! Apps! Apps! Luckily, the web is filled with tons of helpful typography and font apps that are just a hop, skip and a jump away. Here are 21 of the absolute greatest:
Typechart -T ypechart ...
You have a blog, right? Some kind of a hub where you impart wisdom on all of your loyal readers? Why not spruce the place up a bit with some great fonts that were originally intended for magazines and headlines. There is a reason they are called headlines, afterall. They keep your head, um, in ...
Planning on bringing something into the real world by sending it through a printer? You had better read this. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font for its emails from Arial to Century Gothic. The institution reported that the new font requires about 30% less ink, which costs up to $10,000 per ...
As Photoshop experts of varying degrees, is there anything better than noticing a botched job that somehow escaped the cutting room floor and made it into the world? It is absolutely amazing to see the kind of mistakes that nobody notices, or the bad ideas that simply go unchallenged.
The folks over at Photoshop Disaster know ...
Oh what a year it’s been in graphic design! A year that saw, among other things, the Yale logo undergo a major redesign. Hell, even the city of Philadelphia went under the Photoshop knife. Here are links leading you to the best and worst 2009 had to offer in the worlds of graphic design and ...
