Typography

Illustration and typography don’t always play nice. When they do, however, it can create some beautiful and compelling imagery. Which is which in this scenario, however? Is a beautiful illustration that also features typography an illustration or, well, a piece of typography? Both. Also, ultimately it doesn’t matter. Beauty is beauty, no matter the name. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Here at WebRulon, we constantly scour the net to give you the best links “money” can buy. This time around? Typography. Here are a few helpful links that have popped up over the past week. Enjoy and, as always, thank us later.
25 creative use of typography in packaging design – Some of these are really ...
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Looking for some inspritation? Check out these great typography magazines.
TYPO Magazine
URL: http://www.magtypo.cz.
Description: “TYPO is a unique magazine. The name TYPO gives away the main focus of the magazine – typography, which is discussed from different points of view and with connection to other fields such as architecture, photography, social science, and ...
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