Lately I’ve been receiving emails from designer’s and students asking for my personal critique on an identity design project they’re working on. Many of the emails are typically based around the question: “What font looks better?” or “Do you think a heavy typeface or light typeface would better fit the mark?” The posed questions had [...]
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Same ol’ g? A visual study of the lowercase G
I could stare at typefaces for hours on end. Everything from their curves, swoops, sexy calligraphic lines, to the personalities — doesn’t the OneLeigh ‘g’ look sad and crumbled below? — that draw me in for a closer look. I enjoy everything about them! While spending time in awe looking at type specimen sheets, there [...]
Put on Your Best Face: Designers Discuss Typefaces
With thousands of free fonts available from various sources scattered throughout the web, it’s easy for designers (and non-designers) to build their computer’s font libraries with hundreds and thousands of free fonts with just a few clicks. But is it really worth it to have access to this many? First off I am not stating [...]
What Makes a Quality Font
Since thousands of varied quality fonts readily available for download from free font sites, it’s important to be able to spot andunderstand the difference between a ‘professional quality’ font and those of ‘lower grade’ and less quality. Take into account that I’m not stating that you should stop using “free” fonts all together, but rather become aware of [...]
Font Conference Video… Hilarious!
If you’re a type nerd like me or love some good ol’ design humor than you will love this Font Conference video I found at CollegeHumor. The video starts out with a gathering of various typeface deciding whether or not to offer membership to Zapf Wingbats… hehe!
