Comic Sans and Papyrus are probably the most hated typefaces among designers — heck, probably anyone with a discerning eye. So when Ben Harmon cross-bred the two...
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Yusuke Sugomori, who describes himself as a "creative technologist," has created a project called CSS Sans — a font collection that is created purely from CSS. A cool feature of the webpage is that as you mouse over a particular CSS class, the portion of the font for which it is responsible gets highlighted: Are there any real-life, practical uses for CSS Sans? Probably not. And you can't ignore the fact that all browsers render CSS slightly differently, so it may look crappy on older and/or less popular browers. (I'm using Chrome on a Mac.) But you gonna admit that it's a cool concept, and marvel at the strides CSS has made since I first started fiddling around with it in the early 2000's. ...
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I heart this poster. That is all. Via BARFUTURA....
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This is hands-down the best infographic on typography I have ever seen. It's too good and informative not to share. Enjoy! (Click to view large.) Via COLOURlovers....
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I am loving the Word as Image project and the accompanying book. Started 20 years ago as an assignment in typography class in art school, Ji Lee creates images out of words by contorting the letters that form the word itself. Anyone can create a word as image. It doesn't require any design or drawing skills. All you need is a little creative thinking and to see words and letters in a different way. The dictionary is filled with thousands of fun visual puzzles just waiting to be solved. Now that I think about it, I can recall that I learned the word "parallel" — which happens to be one of the words pictured below — by remembering the three parallel lines embedded...
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