I use the words font and typeface so casually that I’ve never stopped to consider what the actual difference is between the two. How about you? (This is not another quiz by the way.)
A typeface is not a font, nor is a font a typeface. A typeface is a type family’s consistent visual appearance [...]
Are you a font nerd part two, can you tell fonts from typefaces?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 6 October, 2009 to the design and art subset
Riddle me this, when is a fruit not a fruit?
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 13 August, 2009 to the comment subset
Strawberries, because they have seeds on their skin, do not qualify as an actual fruit biologically. Nor do a whole range of other… foodstuffs:
Strawberries, you will be glad to know, are a “false fruit”. Which seems reasonable enough. But at this point a small doubt started to grow in my mind… what, actually, [...]
Not all cross words are puzzles
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 2 December, 2008 to the comment subset
Visuwords™: study the interconnectedness of words.
Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
I think the neural net surrounding disassociated is 100 per cent accurate and correct!
