7 posts tagged “typography”
Thanks, Drage, for this scrumptious find. I knew I could count on you for all things meaty.
There may be thousands of fonts available online, but for truly dedicated members of Generation C—who live to create their own, fresh content—that's sometimes not enough. Luckily, help is now at hand in the form of a do-it-yourself font-building tool from digital type retailer FontShop.
FontStruct, which was opened to the public in April, is a free, online tool that lets users quickly and easily create fonts by arranging geometrical shapes in a grid pattern, much like tiles or bricks. Working one letter at a time, users add and remove shapes including blocks and dots to achieve a look they like. Once they're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application. Users can keep their "FontStructions" private, or they can share them with the FontStruct community for discussion, rating and downloading. They can also display them on other websites or blogs through the FontStruct widget. Several Creative Commons license options are available to allow varying degrees of sharing. The site is supported through links to San Francisco-based FontShop for sales and downloads of its professional, non-modular fonts.
There's no end in sight to the customer-made trend, and legions of prosumers out there are eager for fresh new ways to express their ideas. Give them the tools they need as a token of your free love, and they just may love you back!
Website: fontstruct.fontshop.com
Contact: fontstruct.fontshop.com/contact
If you're a fan of typography, I highly suggest checking out Words Are Pictures. I was pleasantly surprised to find the first two featured pieces for two of my most decadent passions - BMW and Persian poetry. Call it synchronicity, if you will. Maybe it's just a stroke of sheer randomness.
Special thanks to Espi for sharing this great find.
Each day our world changes, the old quickly vanishing, displaced by inspired new designs, new perspectives and brilliant imaginative creations. Society seemingly demands it, our fascination and appetite for embracing the new apparently endless. Who of us is not awed by the scale of Dubai’s architecture, amused by the latest television commercial, drawn to the value and logic of the Prius Hybrid automobile or the aesthetic and functional design of Apple’s iPhone?
The original wall circa 1966 (top) and details of the gastro-typography (above). (FROM AIGA)
A stop-motion project inspired of the Dada mouvement, demonstrating that the over-used of graphical elements in a typographical composition may cause unreadability of the content.
JVALLEE TYPE SPOT
