Posts tagged fonts
Handcrafting Type, Literally
Graphic designer Tien-Min Liao created Handmade Type, a “typographic experiment that explores the relationships between upper-case letters and lower-case letters, and also records the transformation between them.”
In this experiment, I drew shapes with ink on one or both of my hands, manipulating my gestures into the corresponding shape to signify an upper-case letter. Then, using the same shape on my hands, I manipulated my gesture or changed the perspective through which the shape is viewed in orderto transform the upper-case letter to a lower-case of the same letter. Removingor redrawing the darkened shape on my hands is not allowed in the experiment. The only way to make the model transform from an upper-case to a lower-case (orvice versa) is changing the gestures or the perspectives.
Click through for more animated letters and a video of the making.
H/T: Colossal.
The Big Book of Fonts, 1912 Edition
Via Kottke.org:
The Internet Archive is hosting a copy of the American Specimen Book of Type Styles put out by the American Type Founders Company in 1912. It’s a 1300-page book listing hundreds of typefaces and their possible use cases.
I Shot the Serif.
Via M Monica.
A Typeface for Dyslexia
Holland’s StudioStudio has created a typeface called dyslexie that reflects the needs of those with dyslexia by bolding the undersides of some letters (eg., ‘d’), elongating the ascender or descender of others (eg., ‘h’) and opening up letters such as ‘c’.
The result: a study at the Netherland’s University of Twente demonstrates that people with dyslexia make fewer reading errors when reading text that uses the font.
Source: StudioStudio.
