the great big typography thread
not so much free fonts, as we have a thread for that. but cool typo things - must post them somewhere for others to read and enjoy, right? articles, images, your favourites, type you made, type you want, type you like.
i'll start off with this "anatomy of a typeface" by björn johansson
i'll start off with this "anatomy of a typeface" by björn johansson
Comments
you can buy the poster from blanka.co.uk
Sign painted blog. Photo by Reference Library. Winter, 2008
and a couple of others from baster.nl
I'll try to contribute
by oscar and ewan for terrace
These are from the excellent book '1000 type treatments' (I bought it a while back and recommend it!)
at pingmag
elshaarani.com
arabic calligraphy
labyrinthus
The designer / architect is Edouard Francois
I found the article in 'onoffice' magazine
from here but there is a lot of shit there as well !
I think I have loads of bits of information regarding typography, here and there. I'll dig some out...
found here
from face37
and the label too. heh. good.
EDIT: oh. simultaneous posts. the above is a comment about the poster.
again at face37
herb lubalin
from bygstudio
from 'ntmy' (which is no longer online)
oh joy!
mary & matt
hotwire cut foam type from john caserta
HIRSUTURA
typo era, from xtrabold
from monoscope
sampsonmay
i must remember to make that before they do...
I know what date it is... I NEED to be able to write appointments / b'days etc on it.
But yeah, it's cool