Katerina Orlikova’s kaleidoscopes use fonts to create their psychedelic patterns.
Kaleidoscopic font patterns created by five different typefaces
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 March, 2010 to the design and art subset
GO FONT UR SELF* typography art show, Sydney
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 March, 2010 to the events subset
Typography inspired artworks go on show in Sydney as GO FONT UR SELF* arrives in town, on Wednesday, 17 March 2010, from 6pm at the Peer Gallery in Glebe.
The posters of Alphabet city
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 26 February, 2010 to the design and art subset
A selection of posters that were part of the Scalacolore Exhibition in 2008.
The concept was: Take a letter of an alphabet, looking for a selection of 10 cities in the world that starts with this letter, say which languages are spoken in these places, say where are you from and which is your language.
This font gives me 100000 words, maybe more, to the cartridge
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 25 January, 2010 to the design and art subset
Matt Robinson compares eight fonts, including Helvetica and Cooper Black, to determine which produces the most characters per ballpoint pen.
A selection of the most commonly used typefaces were compared for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size. Large scale renditions of the typefaces were [...]
The differences between Arial and Helvetica, a quick guide
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 4 December, 2009 to the design and art subset
A handy quick reference graphic depicting key differences between the Arial and Helvetica fonts.
Lease fonts for your website with Typekit
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 12 November, 2009 to the design and art subset
Typekit is a new subscription tool for web designers who are pedantic about typography, which allows them to serve up a selection of OpenType fonts to a website by way of javascript.
Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.
Bands that create their own font collection, how rock n roll
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 11 November, 2009 to the design and art subset
Quite a few fonts that feature in band logos were created specifically for the task at hand, and in many cases only consist of whatever letters or characters were needed to spell the band’s name. That hasn’t stopped some fans from making up complete font sets based on these logos though.
Lettering from London’s underground and newspapers
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 28 October, 2009 to the design and art subset
For typography fans, examples of lettering as seen in London, drawn from newspapers, London Underground signage, and railway stations.
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
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? Can you tell Arial from Helvetica?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 6 October, 2009 to the design and art subset
To get your brains ticking over again after the holiday weekend, take the quiz, “So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?”, well known logos and trademarks presented in both Arial and Helvetica, can you tell them apart?
My score was 19/20, I messed up with one of the italic styled logos.
