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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...
FontCreator 6.0 Released
This professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts. It has the powerful drawing tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an interface that allows beginners to become productive immediately. When you create or open a font, FontCreator displays an overview of all available characters. You can add missing characters, or select an existing character, and modify its appearance. You can import (scanned) images of your signature or company logo, or make a font from your own handwriting. With FontCreator you can also fix character mappings, font names, kerning pairs, and preview your fonts before installing. >> Read More...
Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser (Slashdot)
"Although it's been up for a few weeks, today is the official launch of FontStruct, a web-based font creation tool. That's right: in your web browser, you can build your own typeface, and download it as a TrueType font. The site's user agreement requires you to release your creations online under one of the Creative Commons licenses. The typefaces tend to be a little blocky, but it's still impressive (and a great way to pass time)." >> Read More...
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2007 (Typographica)
Typographica’s fourth annual review showcases the best in new typeface design. Twenty-five of the world’s brightest graphic and type designers selected their favorite font releases of the year. We welcome to our regular cast of contributors: David Berlow, Ellen Lupton, and Erik Spiekermann, among others. This edition brings two changes. First, the description has evolved from “fonts” to “typefaces”. Yes, there is a difference. Mark Simonson explains it bes t: “The physical embodiment of a collection of letters (whether it’s a case of metal pieces or a computer file) is a font. When referring to the design of the collection (the way it looks) you call it a typeface.” >> Read More...
The font of all personality (BBC News)
The choice of font used in e-mails and type-written letters could say more about an individual's personality than their creative writing skills. Graphology - the art of studying handwriting - has been used for centuries to try to analyse people's characters, but since the demise of personal handwriting, the experts have moved on to typefaces to look for clues to our identities. If the experts are correct, choice of font could prove important when writing a letter to your bank manager or a spurned lover. The Psychology of Fonts, commissioned by Lexmark Printers and written by psychologist Dr Aric Sigman explains how a typeface will significantly influence what the reader thinks about you. Courier is seen as the choice of "sensible shoes" type of people or "anoraks" and curvy icons like Georgia or Shelly suggest a bit of a "rock chick" personality. The study suggests fonts can be matched to top personalities, and cites the following examples: >> Read More...
30 Fonts That ALL Designers Must Own (Just Creative Design)
Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career! A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this. There are some top free fonts that are downloadable in this collection and some that come with your operating system… the others are not so free but they sure will help you improve your typography! They include original PC, Mac and Truetype fonts. >> Read More...
FontViewer 3 : Preview and Manage Your Fonts to Improve Performance (PC Magazine)
Having unique fonts is great for making your documents look special or for putting a distinctive caption on a photograph or video clip. But if you have hundreds of fonts, you may be slowing down Windows, word processors, and other programs that use fonts. Applications like Word and Photoshop load all of the available fonts into dropdown boxes. If you have hundreds of fonts, your application loading times might be slower than a system with just a few fonts. In addition, it can be difficult to find the font you want when scrolling through a list from a dropdown box. They usually appear small and it can be hard to see many fonts at once. >> Read More...
