Entries from Kelake tagged with 'Typography'
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A father and son drwaing letters. Love this. I think this will be on the agenda for tomorrow....
Fine Typography for the Web Presentation
""Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach...
Italia Font
I've been using Italia as the display and logotype for a weblog cum magazine that I have been working on recently. I like the shape of the letters at large sizes but the capital T is a bit wonky...
How Was It For You? (aiga)
I've always loved the look of Chinese and Japanese characters for the way look more than what they are trying to communicate linguistically. I love the space between the letter forms and the shape of the characters. I love black...
Gerard Unger's typeface designs
Gerard Unger typeface designer of Swift (1985), Amerigo (1986), Flora (1984), and Gulliver (1993) (the typeface used in USA Today) has produced a Web site that is a wealth of information on type design in general and his own designs...
The Scourge of Arial
An older excellent article on the prevalence of Arial on computer desktops and a sidebar which shows typographically challenged designers how to tell Arial from the typefaces it was designed to imitate. "Arial's ubiquity is not due to its beauty....
Type basics
"100% practical. Sketches have been made to explain some basic issues in type design during the workshops. They get used to point out some problems which raise while creating a new typeface. Only some foundations are shown, no deep sophisticated...
Font Book (pdf)
I created a short book of fonts as part of a typographic study I was working on. It's largely just a print out of some type I was using at that time. Its a bit of a large download at...
Typography of the Bauhaus
Typography is an instrument of communication. It must communicate clearly in the most urgent form. Clarity must be emphasized because, in comparison with prehistoric pictographs, it is the essence of script. Our intellectual attitude to the world is individually precise...
Is it Arial or is it Helvetica? A quiz.
Once there was a typeface called Helvetica. It was extremely popular. Later came a software company called Microsoft. They “borrowed” Helvetica for their operating system and called it Arial. This inferior typeface is now on millions of desktops all over...
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