Fiery Font Friday
Ok, how cool is this? Look at all those fonts! Seriously, folks, that’s a lot of fonts, but there are so many they become kind of a pattern, and it somehow works. Don’t try this at home. With excellent commentary by Peiran Tan about Chinese fonts. Source: https://metalsharkplayer.wordpress.com License: All Rights Reserved. Typefaces Both the packaging and contents of tương […]
Phonetikana Font Friday
Clever font sneaks pronunciation guide for English speakers into Japanese katakana characters By Casey Baseel from Rocketnews24:
Phone Font Friday: A Glowing Font Created by Waving an iPhone in the Dark
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Flowing Font Friday
SoraNews24: “Bringing you yesterday’s news from Japan and Asia, today.” By Dale Roll SoraNews24 is a fun blog about, well, yesterday’s Japan and Asia news, today. A fair amount of it is aimed at people learning about Japanese language and writing. From an earlier blog post: Written Japanese uses three kinds of script. At the top […]
From Hell(vetica) Font Friday
Helvetica’s evil twin, Hellvetica, will haunt your nightmares “We wanted people to see this in the wild and be like, ‘What the HELL is wrong with my computer?’” says the typeface’s creator, Matthew Woodward. BY LILLY SMITH Hold your favorite graphic design tome close. We now know what the classic typeface Helvetica would look like […]
Flying Font Friday 2
From My Modern Met.com. Also see my post Flying Font Friday 1, about airport signage. Norwegian nature photographer Kjell Bloch Sandved has devoted his photographic career to capturing the beauty of the world we live in and along the way, amassed a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings. Sanved’s […]
Fightin’ Font Friday
The only people perhaps more obsessive than type designers are builders of model aircraft. TLai Enterprises offers a font for sale called AmarilloUSAF. With its straight lines and blocky look, AmarilloUSAF provides the correct, forthright feel of the real thing. AmarilloUSAF Pro—Enhanced US Air Force Aircraft Marking Font
Foreign Font Friday 2
Here’s a beautiful font inspired by the designers’ love of travel. Photographic images of destinations paired with a strong sans serif typeface create a unique and memorable look. See also Foreign Font Friday 1, about typefaces that have a foreign look. Around the World With Type by Rigved Sathe and Payal Jagwani We intend to […]
Feudal Font Friday
Tee hee.
Effacing Font Friday
By Margaret Rhodes from Wired magazine: Self-Censoring Font Redacts Words the Feds Are Watching For Seen, a font from designer Emil Kozole, recognizes National Security Agency spook words and blacks them out. Image credit: Emil Kozole
Fleurons Font Friday
A fleuron, or flower, is a decorative typographic character. The category of fleuron includes some characters that are not floral in design. Also known as a printer’s flower or floret. Flowers are in a category of characters known as ornaments or type ornaments. Scroll down or jump to here for a short essay on fleurons.
Found Font Friday
With regard to the surreptitious disposal and triumphant recovery of the Doves Type from London’s Thames River (from an article in typespec magazine): The Doves Type® revival. Not to be confused with my post Found Font Friday 2, about fonts created from lettering and signs found in the great outdoors. Raised from the dead: The Doves […]
14,000+ color names! Just type in a hex code
Smashing Magazine‘s Smashing Newsletter Issue #190 has this gem: more than 14,000 color names, accessible by entering a 6-digit hex code. Some examples below. Click on “quick! Find one of 14’000 color names!” to get the HTML, CSS, and JS code (see below). What comes to your mind when you hear terms like “Bright Nori”, […]
Fans Font Friday 3 – Art Deco
Here are some beautiful hand fans from the Art Deco era. Vintage Advertising Hand Fan – 666 Brand Salve A common use of imagery on hand fans seems to have been informational rather than just decoration. This one is for “666” brand remedy for everything from malaria to neuralgia. The stylized illustration of Diana is […]
Forgotten Font Friday
A lovely type-related article from Atlas Obscura, chroniclers of the strange and wonderful. The Lost Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins The pioneering designer created dozens of fonts, only a few of which are still around today. By CARA GIAIMO for Atlas Obscura
Fairbanks, Flagstaff, Fresno, Florida, Fairfield, Falmouth, Fayette, Fargo, Fort Worth Font Friday
Andy Murdock is co-founder of The Statesider: “The most interesting US travel stories, delivered directly to your inbox.” Here he writes about the 222 fonts he found with names associated with US places. The United Fonts of America Before 1984, I had never encountered the word “font.” Then a Macintosh computer showed up in my […]
F*cking Font Friday
Scunthorpe Sans, according to its promo material at Vole.wtf, is “[a] s*** font that f***ing censors bad language automatically.” The Vole.wtf page has a font generator, where you can input the foul words of your choice and see the censorship in real time (scroll down for an example of what it looks like). Indulge your […]
Family vs Variable Font Friday
The fearsome Hydra provides a handy illustration of current vs. future trends in digital typography. Current: typeface “families” with a different cut for each style: e.g. 8 pt/12 pt/ 18 pt, thin/regular/bold, condensed/regular/expanded, etc., and combinations thereof. (“Cut” refers to the metal type of yore, in which the master for each style was literally cut […]
Fonting while Queer Font Friday
In-person LGBTQIA+ celebrations may be cancelled this year, but a new(ish) typeface can soothe your wounds with rainbow colored strokes. Behold: the typeface “Gilbert.” [Update] I’m getting some formatting errors in this post, so here’s a link to the original article: https://www.typewithpride.com/ On 31 March, 2017, Gilbert Baker the creator of the iconic Rainbow Flag […]
“Murder Most Foul” Font Friday
A little bit of a reach for Font Friday today: “Foul” Font Friday (what I thought of first) -> “Murder Most Foul” Font Friday -> Hamlet typeface. In the play, the ghost of Hamlet’s father tells Hamlet that he has been a victim of “Murder most foul” by his own brother’s hand, moving the action […]
Fans Font Friday 2 – Klackin
Klackin Fans™, that is! Klackin Fans are awesome, rude, queer-themed fans with awesome, rude, queer-themed phrases on them (plus the odd 420 or political one) in mostly garish colors and with terrible font choices and kerning. They beg to be seen by huge crowds at a bar or festival, but that’s not possible anymore in […]
Fans Font Friday 1 – Flirtations
Apart from the small matter of the horrifying death and illness we see around us and in the media, by now we are all heartily *tired* of this pandemic. Whether we are stuck at home, stuck working, stuck taking on new household/schooling responsibilities, any combination thereof or—I hope not—stuck in bed with *any* ailment, a […]
Fur and Feathers Not-Font Not-Friday-Either
The human world is going to hell—if it’s not there already—but our animals still need us. No fonts today. Long post. TL;DR Walking your dogs and petting your cats (and other critters) helps both them and you I miss my kitty “socializing” at the SF SPCA The Fear Free® training program was helpful for me […]
Fonting While Female Font Friday
Golly gosh, folks, this Sunday, March 8 is International Women’s Day! Isn’t it neat that they let us ladies have a whole day to ourselves? And a whole month to ourselves too? One out of twelve is just nifty! In any case, I thought I’d celebrate the day’s novel status with some typography for this, […]
Foam Slime Font Friday – Late Valentine’s Day Edition
Yes, today is oops, six days ago was Valentine’s Day, the American holiday compelling those with partners to give expensive pink and red gifts to their sweetheart(s). Also in the offing: chocolates, flowers, lavish diamond jewelry, marriage proposals. Obligatory! Compulsory! And of course if one does not have a partner(s), one is a failure as […]
(Oscar) Film Font Friday
The Oscars are on Sunday, February 9! Here’s a great breakdown of the design of posters of some leading films. See also Film Fonts Friday 1; (Bond) Film Font Friday; Film Font Friday, Wes Anderson Edition; and Font Film Font Friday. Read the text below, or click the link for the full interactive experience. Washington […]
(Artemis) Fowl Font Friday
From Wikipedia: Artemis Fowl is a series of eight children’s fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, featuring the criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II. The series has received positive critical reception and generated huge sales. It has also originated graphic novel adaptations.
Feds Font Friday
Another great article from typeroom.com, detailing the release of the first official typeface of the United States of America. Public Sans: It’s official. The US government released its own free font.
Forget-Me-Not Font Friday
These beautiful and historically important writing systems are in danger of being lost, through reasons detailed in this article from mentalfloss.com. 10 Endangered Alphabets You Should See Before It’s Too Late BY EMILY PETSKO JANUARY 17, 2019 The Glagolitic script carved into wood – COURTESY OF TIM BROOKES
Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! Font Friday
This article from the excellent online mag typeroom (“glorifying eclectic typography”) details the Type Champions Award winners for 2019. Expect more articles from typeroom in the future. Type Champions Award 2019: Alibaba, The Guardian, NYT & more honorees to note And the winners are in! Monotype introduced the inaugural recipients of the Type Champions Award, a […]
Find a Font Font Friday
Need to decide on a typeface for your upcoming graphics project? This handy and EXHAUSTIVE chart will help you decide.
First Americans Thursday, No Fonts: Thanksgiving Edition
A beautiful, powerful letter from Our Family Coalition, an LGBTQ rights organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://ourfamily.org/blog/?p=1537
First Nations Font Thursday 1 — Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning
In the U.S., today is Thanksgiving, billed as a day of giving thanks for our blessings, in commemoration of the story of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians feasting together. (You’re supposed to do it with your birth family, unless you’re too queer or trans or many other marginalized groups, of course. Or too political. […]
Faith-Free Font Friday
Study: Top Reason Millennials Leave The Church Is Terrible Font Choices
Führer Font Friday
The below is an article from October 2016, but worth a rerun in light of Trump’s recent (impeachment hearings 2019) adventures in writing speech notes for himself. Here’s a link to Trump’s latest scrawlings set to music made by various talented musicians: a) Ramones-style b) Emo-style c) Morrissey-style BY JOHN BROWNLEE Although he’s known for […]
1482 Font Friday
Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482) Jacobus Publicius was a fifteenth-century rhetorician and physician who is remembered today for being the author of the first ars memoriae (or ars memorativa), a work dedicated to techniques concerning the organisation and improving of memory. Publicius’ ideas were gathered in a book called Ars Oratoria. Ars Epistolandi. Ars Memorativa published in 1482, which […]
Fear Font Friday 2 (OK, OK, it’s Thursday)
For Halloween, what’s skarier than a skeleton? What about the kind of person who makes a skeleton out of designer-y type? Def skarier. Not to be confused with my post Fear Font Friday 1. Skeleton Typogram, A Human Skeleton Illustration Made Using The Words For Each Bone “Skeleton Typogram” by designer Aaron Kuehn is a gorgeous typographic artwork […]
Feline Font Friday 2
Cats As Fonts Courtesy Jolyon Hawley from https://www.sadanduseless.com. Not to be confused with my post Feline Font Friday 1 (in memory of Lucy).
Father Friday 2, No Fonts (CN: loss of father)
CN: Loss of father, stroke Sunday, January 19th, 2020, is the 48th anniversary of my father’s death. He died at just 59, when I was nine. He’d had a bad stroke two years before, and, in the days before early intervention in stroke patients prevented or ameliorated effects, was paralyzed on his left side and […]
Father Friday 1, No Fonts (CN: death)
CN: Death of parent Today is my father’s birthday: Maurice Ginzler. He was born (third of seven children) in 1912 (ten-eleven-twelve) so he’d be 107 today. Right now there’s a family reunion going on in Florida and there was a slideshow this morning of photos various relatives had amassed. I video conferenced and saw photos […]
Feline Font Friday 1 (in memory of Lucy)
Eleven years ago tomorrow, on September 28, I lost my beautiful sweet Lucy Cat. She was skittish and terrified when I first got her, hiding under the bed and only emerging at night to eat. I decided to take on gentling her as a project, but that soon turned into just loving her up. She […]
Philatelic Font Friday
Aaaaghhh! Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press beat me to this idea. His extensive collection of stamps designed by type designers, and musings thereupon, was started in 1999. Here are some highlights.
F’n Huge Font Friday (Helvetica in Space)
From kottke.org: Ben Terrett wrote a post about how many instances of the word “helvetica” set in unkerned 100 pt Helvetica it would take to go from the Earth to the Moon: The distance to the moon is 385,000,000,000 mm. The size of an unkerned piece of normal cut Helvetica at 100pt is 136.23 mm. […]
Fourth-Dimension Font Friday
This font will make your brain hurt Oxymora is a typeface that evokes the twisting, non-Euclidian geometry of MC Escher’s artwork By Carl Franzen (Birgit Palma/Cargo Collective/Inspiration Hut) Impossible, twisting geometric artwork abounds across the internet (see The Verge‘s logo for one prominent example). So it seems high time that someone made a similarly reality-defying font. […]
Found Font Friday 2
Not to be confused with my post Found Font Friday 1, the tale of a bitter turn-of-the-20th-century rivalry which led to economically valuable—and artistically priceless—metal type being flung into London’s River Thames, to be recovered only after a lapse of a hundred years. This post deals with matters cheerier, cheekier, and altogether less grim. From […]
Fake Font Friday 4
Another kind of fake font, these type styles replicate printing found starting in the 20th century—dot matrix, LCD, “computer” and 8-bit. Not to be confused with my posts Fake Font Friday 1, Fake Font Friday 2 or Fake Font Friday 3. Dot Matrix by Moonbase Press in Techno > LCDDownload
Forensics Fonts Friday
Forensics professionals pay a great deal of attention about what fonts to use in courtroom exhibits concerning or reproducing digital evidence. To quote a paper by Fred Cohen & Associates of the California Sciences Institute [abstract below] “fonts for forensics are less about the beauty of the presentation and more about the tradeoff between readability […]
Fake Font Friday 3
Today we salute fonts that fake text itself. Microdot replaces every character with the placeholder rectangle from regular fonts, and Blokk replaces characters with horizontal lines. Type in either font gives the effect of a block of copy (or headline) without distracting the viewer with content. Both are great for making wireframes or mockups. Not […]