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World's First: An Apple Store for Type Geeks [Slideshow] Playtype.com, one of Europe's preeminent online font foundries, has opened a gorgeous brick-and-mortar shop in Copenhagen dedicated to flogging digital typefaces. Customers can walk in off the street and buy fonts loaded on USBs that resemble little credit cards. The shop also sells a ragbag of typographic gifts and paraphernalia, including T-shirts, posters, and even wine (no idea if it's any good, but the bottle sure looks purdy) -- all in a space done up in a lovely black-and-white motif that is itself a monument to typography. Adrian Frutiger Adrian Frutiger (born May 24, 1928 in Unterseen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland) is a typeface designer who influenced the direction of digital typography in the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. He is best known for creating the Univers and Frutiger typefaces. Early life[edit] Adrian Frutiger was born in Unterseen, Canton of Bern, the son of a weaver. As a boy, he experimented with invented scripts and stylized handwriting in negative reaction to the formal, cursive penmanship then required by Swiss schools. His early interest in sculpture was discouraged by his father and by his secondary school teachers; they encouraged him to work in printing.
A Look Into: Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Brands Do you find yourself staring at other designer’s logo and immediately try to decipher what typeface they are using? If you are a designer, it is probably an inevitable habit. There are no hard and fast rules to help you determine which typeface you should land on for your logo. Typography - Installing fonts on Windows About fonts Installing fonts on Windows Windows 7 and Windows 8 There are several ways to install fonts on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Even with a relatively limited set of options in CSS, typography can vary tremendously using pure CSS syntax. Serif or sans-serif? 25 Hottest Free Fonts of the Moment We’ve selected the current hottest free fonts, organized in four categories. Check the list and see the lastest trends for typography. Doodles and Sketches These sketchy and “messy” fonts are getting noticed more and more.
Six Super Helpful Typography Cheat Sheets Some may argue that typography is the single most important aspect of web design, but yet it’s often one of the most neglected and overlooked. There’s a lot involved in typography, and becoming a master can be difficult. A lot of it requires much experience, practice, and knowing the rules and do’s and dont’s. Nevertheless, there’s a lot to remember. So to provide a little typography aid, we’ve rounded up Six Super Helpful Typography Cheat Sheets. So You Need A Typeface
La typographie dans le graphisme. sur Geekeries.fr La typographie, qui commença en 1450 avec l’invention de Gutenberg, nous permet de nos jours à communiquer plus facilement et plus esthétiquement. Nous devons soigner les différents aspects et mettre en valeur les informations essentielles de nos sites/blog ou encore pour nos documents imprimés. Mais, tout le monde ne connaît pas les règles de bases de la typographie, et nous voyons des fois, pour ne pas dire tout le temps, des coquilles très perturbante, que ce soit chez les professionnels (même si cela ce fait de plus en plus rare) ou les novices. Cet article a pour but, d’aider bien évidemment les novices ou toutes personnes intéressées par la typographie générale. Je vais vous présenter, quelques types de caractères, et vous expliquer le rapport graphisme/sens du texte avec les différentes classifications qu’ont créés de brillants typographes.
â Systems for pagesâ - Blog - John D. Berry dot com Books are digital. This is not, strictly speaking, true; but it’s about to be, with a few honorable exceptions. Already today, pretty much all commercial books are produced digitally, although the end product is a physical one: ink printed on paper, then bound and marketed and sold. Already, the selling may be done as often online as in a bookstore. Already, the same books are being issued more and more in electronic form – even if, as yet, the e-books are mostly very shoddy in conception and execution. But that will change.
72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration If we are starting to go crazy in typography style, then let’s continue with typographic and smart logo designs, shall we? Here you’ll find 72 beautiful logos created by talented designers. This showcase just proves the point how much can one/two words, icons tell using correctly white, negative, positive spacing, colors, accents creating interesting associations. reference chart of ampersand symbols Path // → → SPECIAL CHARACTERS There is a huge list of extra characters and symbols in existence that couldn’t be crammed onto a keyboard, so HTML allows you to use them through a series of special codes commonly known as “ampersand characters” or “character entities.” You can create these characters by starting with an ampersand (&), followed by a few letters, and ending with a semicolon (;). For instance, the entity © creates a copyright symbol ©. All entities are case sensitive. There are also numerical codes for most characters — these are harder to remember, but may enjoy better browser support.