Venetian Blind Font

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts on November 24, 2009 at 3:32 pm


Photo: Andrew Byrom

Designer Andrew Byrom has developed a font derived from Venetian blinds opened and closed at various angles and lengths. Byrom, a native of Liverpool, UK, studied design at the Cumbria Institute of Art and Design and now teaches at California State University in Los Angeles. He has won numerous awards for his typographical work in the past few years.

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Physical Typography: Brilliant Built & Found Fonts

Posted by Urbanist in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Pictures on June 17, 2009 at 2:00 pm

In a way, typography has come full circle – what started as a physical process of setting type in machines has been rediscovered as a physical art by a number of creative photographers and designers. Some of these unusual real-life alphabetic collections were found and photographed in nature while others were acted out, constructed or assembled from bodies and objects but all ten sets of type yield compelling images.

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Font Fight

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else, Funny, Video Clips on May 6, 2009 at 8:03 am


(College Humor link)

College Humor brings us the long-awaited sequel to the Font Conference. It’s Helvetica vs. Arial with help from their peeps in a fight to the death! -via Geeks Are Sexy

 
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The History of Comic Sans

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on April 20, 2009 at 1:10 am

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that Comic Sans is an iconic (and very, very popular) font. Emily Steel of The Wall Stree Journal wrote a fascinating history of the creation of the font (by designer Vincent Connare) and the movement to ban it:

The proliferation of Comic Sans is something of a fluke. In 1994, Mr. Connare was working on a team at Microsoft creating software that consumers eventually would use on home PCs. His designer’s sensibilities were shocked, he says, when, one afternoon, he opened a test version of a program called Microsoft Bob for children and new computer users. The welcome screen showed a cartoon dog named Rover speaking in a text bubble. The message appeared in the ever-so-sedate Times New Roman font.

Mr. Connare says he pulled out the two comic books he had in his office, "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Watchmen," and got to work, inspired by the lettering and using his mouse to draw on a computer screen. Within a week, he had designed his legacy.

A product manager recognized the font’s appeal and included it as a standard typeface in the operating system for Microsoft Windows. As home computers became widespread, Comic Sans took on a goofy life of its own.

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No Other Typewriter Can Do This

Posted by Queuebot in Gadget on March 16, 2009 at 2:17 pm

Modern Mechanix blog spotted this in a copy of Ye Olde (1918!) National Geographic Magazine: an advertisement for a typewriter with variable fonts.

No Other Typewriter Can Do This—

Change instantly from

Miniature Roman to Large Gothic.
Medium Roman to Italics.
Vertical Script to CLARENDON.
English to Russian.
TURKISH TO PUNJABI.

This can be done by “Just Turning the Knob” on the Multiplex Hammond “Writing Machine”

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.

 
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