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Font News
Font Tips: Printing Type Samples (PC World)
When choosing a typeface to use for a project, there is no replacement for a printed type specimen. Fonts just look different when you see them in print, compared to how they look on screen. So, when you need to choose fonts for a print project, it's smart to have a type specimen book handy that shows exactly how all your fonts look on the page. Clever developers have come up with several useful utilities for printing font specimen pages--not only for active fonts, but also for folders full of fonts you haven't yet installed. >>> Read More...
Finding a Favorite Font (About.com)
What makes a font a favorite? Is it one you use all the time because it's versatile or dependable? How about because it's used in a tattoo that has personal meaning? Recently Jacob Cass tweeted about designers favorite fonts. He's blogged some replies. Check out this list of Designer's Favourite Fonts & Why that includes a lot of classics and what I hope is a tongue-in-cheek entry... because "it makes everything patronising." And do answer that question I first asked. What makes a font a favorite, for you? On my list of favorites are mostly fonts I turn to over and over. But there are also a few that I don't use much -- hardly ever -- but I'm drawn to them nonetheless. >>> Read More...
How to Get Your Own Personalized Font (WSJ.com)
Remember handwriting? There's a movement to bring it back. Naturally, we're not talking about your hand actually writing anything -- we're talking about your computer doing it for you. A range of services offer to convert your handwriting into a personalized font that you can install on your computer, right alongside the standard Times New Roman and Courier. Why would you want to do this? To more easily add an individual touch to letters or other documents, the services suggest. For instance, at home, you can type out a family newsletter in your own familiar scrawl. Or in the office, a production team can quickly crank out "handwritten" marketing materials. Some people also use the services to immortalize their kids' writing before they abandon it for the keyboard. We decided to find out how easy it is to get our computer to do the writing for us. We tried four services -- two cursive and two print -- to see if the fonts measure up to the real thing. >>> Read More...
7 Free Tools to Identify A Font (Webdesigner Depot)
So you’re browsing through your favorite website and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that font too, (and must be as quickly as possible!)… so how do we go about finding out what that font is called? Sounds familiar? Yes… we’ve all been there before! One easy option is to simply email the webmaster and ask for the name of the font and where to get it. This can take some time and not all webmasters will reply. So, I’ve decided to compile a list of free online tools to speed up the identification process. >> Read More...
Four easy ways to design your own fonts (Christian Science Monitor)
Do you dot your i’s with hearts? Particularly proud of your p’s and q’s? Or perhaps you were the kind of kid who drew heavy metal flames around your name. Such doodles work well in the corners of composition notebooks, but until recently, it cost hundreds of dollars in software fees to bring personal touches to computer fonts. Thanks to new websites, creating custom typefaces that work with almost any computer program is now easy and in some cases, free. Here are some of the best services for starting your own amateur font foundry. >> Read More...
Type portraits show women drawn from fonts (Telegraph)
These four striking portraits of women are composed entirely of type from particular fonts. Each of the subjects is depicted using letters and punctuation from one of four fonts - Baskerville, Helvetica Neue, Bernhard Modern and Avenir. Some of the type was blown up and rotated in order to create the images, but otherwise the text is unaltered, meaning the feel of each of the portraits is very different. While the Avenir "typewoman" is curvy, Bernhard Modern is delicate and frilly, and Helvetica Neue is straight-backed and unfussy. >> Read More...
